Opinion

Mark Young, a counselling professor at Gonzaga University, did research around what makes couples "healthy" and "happy." He found there were key themes in the healthy couples he interviewed.

Dear Editor This is in response to the letter from Dave Kenkel (But is it really art? News-Optimist March 19). Everyone is entitled to their opinion and that is his. If he does not like tribute bands then by all means he should not go to them.

Dear Editor The Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts thought a response to correct factual errors printed about the centre in a recent letter to the editor was appropriate (But is it art? News-Optimist March 19).

Growing up in British Columbia, I can remember when producing your own vegetables in the 1970s and '80s, either in your back yard or in a community garden, meant you could be labeled as a "hippy" or "tree hugger.

As April begins, the moon is in its waxing gibbous phase, seen in the south before sunrise. Saturn is just off to the southwest. Mercury, visible in the dawn sky all month, is seven degrees south of the slender crescent moon April 7 and 8.

Well, the deer are at it again and don't anyone try to convince me of how cute those critters are! I noticed the tops of all my snowdrops had disappeared and this afternoon the neighbour pointed in disgust to all her headless tulip stalks.

I think many Western Canadians take a perverse pride in WestJet. It started out as a Western Canadian airline. It was several years before the airline even offered flights to and from Toronto.

Dear Editor North Battleford Comprehensive High School Viking girls were eliminated from gold medal contention on the weekend in 4A girls' basketball against Moose Jaw Peacock by a scorekeeping error that scorekeepers and officials refused to recogni

March 20 was the official first day of spring and what a day it was! The worst two day blizzard in years. Roads blocked, people stranded, everything ground to a stand still.

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