Opinion

Recent adverts in The Citizen are promoting the term Think Local Support Local. The local chamber of commerce asks what is local? Anne Boogle comments in The Citizen on March 17th that there is an amazing amount of talent locally.

Reading the top story of the Saturday edition I must comment on some of it. The violent take-down by the police certainly made the news and will be an item of controversy for some time. I would have to agree they were pretty rough on him.

I do not believe in police brutality under any circumstances. That being said, it happens sometimes that certain things get out of control. When these perpetrators were signaled to stop, they should have stopped the vehicle.

When it was first suggested to me many years ago that I read Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends And Influence People, I have to admit that I was rather turned off by the title.

Eric Allen makes a powerful case against there being anything to worry about from the possibility of a massive rail spilling polluting Prince George's water supply.

City council r eceived the report on the City of Prince George Wells Protection Plan for CN-related risks at their Monday meeting.

A while back I met 87 year old Mary (Shawaga, Valois) Robinson at the Old Time Fiddlers Thursday night jam session.

My parents were immigrants to Canada after the Second World War. One of the values they instilled in our family was to not go into debt. "Neither a lender nor borrower be" was a maxim in our house.

For the past few years, I have been buying bread at McGavin's Bread Basket.

This editorial first appeared as a column in the March, 25, 2005 edition of The Citizen: It's Easter, the season of miracles and rebirth, starting with the divine mystery of how Easter Sunday flips and flops around the calendar between March 22 and A