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Art must continue through the busy times

Art must continue through the busy times

It is such a busy time of year, isn't it? How many of you are like me and struggle to find a balance between the work that requires creativity and a process, and the work that is deadline-driven and, simply put, just needs to get done right now? Last
Studio Fair fun to browse

Studio Fair fun to browse

Only seven weeks until Christmas and I'm completely ready, aren't you? Just in time for the Christmas frenzy, my favourite event of the season is this weekend: Studio Fair.
Something to chew on

Something to chew on

Are you old enough to remember the Doublemint Twins? Or the introduction of Bubble Yum? Or young enough for the more modern Excel and 5? Chewing gum is not new.
Milking the family cow

Milking the family cow

Succession, Part 4 Although we have seven children, all of them born and raised in the same family, raised in the same home using more or less the same routines, I tell the kids they were each raised by different parents. And so was I.
Respect veterans

Respect veterans

Remembrance Day is once again fast approaching.
Frustrating theft

Frustrating theft

Is nothing safe anymore? I have to ask myself this question after my son's new bike that he purchased this spring was stolen out of our carport either in the wee hours of the morning or during the day while we weren't home on Oct. 28.
Fair medicare

Fair medicare

From time to time, readers of The Citizen write letters finding fault with our Medicare system. "I had to wait for months" is the most common complaint. Well, I need a hip replacement and have waited for over a year now so I can empathize with that.
Changing times

Changing times

Many, many years ago, during the height of the Cold War, the American anticommunist media, parroted by the Canadian media, since that's where I read about it, would ridicule the Soviet Union and China for having early childhood education, the premise
Save the cutbanks

Save the cutbanks

We have recently witnessed another human incursion on the Nechako Cutbanks adjacent to McMillan Park. Under the auspices of a slogan to "Aim High," in page 5, of the Nov.
Hunters need to clean up after themselves

Hunters need to clean up after themselves

I'm a hunter from Vancouver Island and have been coming up to Salmon River for some time now, fortunate to gain a moose draw for that area.