Opinion

Another week and we are now into winter. An ugly storm last Sunday closed the highways. There were reports of an 80-vehicle line up east of Maidstone. Waseca Hall was going to have their annual fall supper but due to weather it was cancelled.

I don't know RCMP Sgt. Neil Tremblay. But I sure am impressed by him.

This past week the $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event wrapped up at the Rio in Las Vegas, with the final table of nine individuals competing to see who would take home the first-place grand prize of $8.3 million dollars.

Thousands of settlers arrived from western Ukraine to homestead on the prairies. Visiting that area for two weeks earlier this fall, I reflected on how similar the landscapes were.

Help! Here in Powell River where little gets in except by plane or boat, we've been invaded and that by a species once considered highly improbable to ever reach our shores. But it's true.

Remembrance Day falls on a Monday this year, giving some the impression there is a long weekend to celebrate. But Nov. 11 isn't a holiday in the way Victoria Day and Canada Day are holidays.

Dear Editor The "Welcome Home Andrew Albers" event sponsored by the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, was a very memorable occasion, in celebration of Battlefords own Andrew Albers, the eighth baseball player from Saskatchewan to make ma

Ed, my neighbour next door, is not one to get depressed about circumstances beyond his control. I was telling Ed I was feeling gloomy for a relative who is experiencing partial blindness that may become complete blindness.

It used to make me really upset that Remembrance Day was not a nation-wide statutory holiday.

My nine-year-old daughter read In Flanders Fields to me last night, her homework for the week. She has to memorize it. Like me at that age, she's taken an interest in military history and the second World War.