Opinion

A friend told me of a visit to his doctor. “Doc,” he complained, “Sometimes I hurt in my knees, sometimes in my hands and…ah, I just seem to hurt somewhere all the time.

By Shelley Luedtke A painting and one of her copper etchings hangs in the hallway. Her bedroom walls are adorned with hand-painted inspirational sayings and her closet doors are filled with sketches from top to bottom.

As I write this, Canada is having a good day, economically. That is, if you consider we just dodged, by the skin of our teeth, getting trampled by Donald Trump on NAFTA 2.0, the United States Mexico Canada Agreement.

There are a couple of important events in our office this week. The first is National Newspapers Week from Oct. 1-7. We’ve written about it before, but now you’ll have to wait until next year before we write about it again.

Cheers to all of the newspaper carriers who get the papers to the readers on a weekly basis. Cheers to the organizers of the Collage Cultural Festival for bringing all of the great entertainment, food and vendors together under one roof.

I woke up this week to find that Christmas had come. Well, at least the snow that usually signifies Christmas, but it’s only October, so what the heck Mother Nature. I’m not sure there is ever weather I truly like in Canada.

There is a source of current, accurate information in the community that is irreplaceable and is necessary and vital, not only to local residents but to the country, and to democracy itself: the newspaper.

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