Opinion

I would like to thank The Citizen for its wonderful support for the Kordyban Lodge gospel concert this past Saturday. Your advertising donations ensured the concert was full of P.G. fans who came out in record attendance in support of the cause.

Re: Booting of Lynn Beyak from the Conservative caucus. Could have this incident been handled better? Yes.

This week, the heavyweights come to town. I don't mean boxing but politics. MLA Mike Morris is hosting the 15th annual B.C. Natural Resources Forum. This is a legacy event started by Pat Bell when he was in government.

In Canada, there are no term limits for the number of times an individual can be elected, be it city councillor, mayor, MLA or MP.

The lads from Liverpool were right to name themselves the Beatles, evoking both rock and roll's rhythms together with the most common animal species on Earth.

Illnesses suffered at our house in order of appearance during Christmas holidays: croup, horrible, horrible flu (HHF), croup, HHR times three, croup, boredom, pink eye, common cold.

Author and radio personality Earl Nightingale tells us, "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal." The truth is that we can accomplish anything we set our minds to. We really can achieve what we visualize and believe.

Esther (Hamblin) Creuzot was born in Bottineau, North Dakota in 1921; she had four sisters; Evelyn, Marion, Lucille, Ethel and two brothers; Virgil and Orville.

It's rare for a child to die at the hands of another person. Just 16 children under the age were victims of homicide in Canada last year. It's horrifying when one is killed, though, even more so when a parent is a suspect.

Over the past year, as American political culture has grown more coarse and corrupt, I've felt different things: sometimes, anger; often, bitter resignation; and occasionally, a bemused sense of pure absurdity.