Opinion

Living in a small town makes me believe it takes a child to raise a village.

History and Commentary from a Prairie Perspective

Dear Editor It has been almost a year since I first thought about writing this letter, which was intended to be a thank you letter.

Ed, my neighbour next door, was pretty grouchy yesterday. He claimed he was out of sorts, because he spent hours in his truck the day before trying to locate a farm.

I could probably go on for weeks and weeks sharing my vision boards with you. I will share with you another 25 of my favourites. I challenge you to create a vision board. It can contain not only sayings, words and motivational quotes but also photos.

As employees of St. Mary's Villa (SMV), many of us for 20-plus years, we are feeling extremely frustrated with the publicity surrounding St. Mary's Villa.

With the advent of social media, a new trend has developed - one I like to call the TMI trend or Too Much Information.

The recent handling of St. Mary's Villa carbon monoxide and flooring problems is straight out of Monte Python - laughable if not so deadly and heart-wrenching. It is ironic Alice Ramsay is now the poster-girl for how not to treat old folks.

The latest in a series of events regarding St. Mary's Villa and the elderly is hardly surprising. Several years ago, we had a "Transition Unit" at the hospital for those elderly people that were in dire straits and had no place to go.

March begins with the moon in almost the same circumstances as in February, except shifted by one day as a result of that extra "leap day." Full moon is March 8, with a close pairing of Mars on the same day.