Opinion

While visiting in the big city last week I was reminded of a long-ago and almost forgotten experience. At the time of that particular incident, friends were visiting us from Switzerland.

A big bouquet to the man, who, without hesitation, ran across 100th Street to assist a person who had fallen on the slippery sidewalk across from the post office.

Dear Editor A present, City of North Battleford Historic Archives Committee are in need of North Battleford Henderson directories and phone books to add to our collection. These books are a tremendous help in researching and documenting our history.

Dear Editor Having served with the RCR Airborne Mobile Strike Force in Korea and Europe, and with NATA, I am appalled to read of a proposed reduction in funding to Veterans Affairs.

Dear Editor Do you know your HIV status? When was the last time you were tested? While HIV and AIDS might not be something that you think about regularly, if ever, they both have a large impact on our community, our province, our country and the worl

I'm not much of a sports guy, but over the past two years I have watched more football on TV than the rest of my life combined. It's not a lot, but it's a start.

Ed, my neighbour next door, noticed that I was in a grumpy mood last week. "You'd think with Christmas fast approaching you would be perking up in joy rather than moping around eager to snap and snarl at people," Ed observed.

As promised last week, here is another list of small lifestyle changes you can start incorporating into your life this week. Remember that trying to slowly make changes helps ensure that you don't get overwhelmed, frustrated or discouraged.

I don't get a chance to talk to my mother often between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Sometimes during the best times to call I'm busy and at other times she is out having fun when I try to reach her.

One view of the power of the press is that by publishing a consumer complaint or insisting an investigative report be completed on behalf of an unhappy consumer problems will be solved and shoddy business practices revealed.