Opinion

I would like to take this opportunity to thank two of our local finest peace officers. On Thursday morning, coming to work just going up Carney I accidentally hit my On Star. Just before anyone answered, I hung it up thinking everything was fine.

There's a seventy-nine-year-old pompous white elephant sitting in the room that should be put out to pasture.

Perhaps I shouldn't tell you the story about the time we almost burned down a campsite. OK, it went like this: My wife and I and the kids drove out to a park for a picnic - never mind where, we want to be able to go back.

Two villains have emerged in the fires in the Southern Interior that have destroyed 30 homes and laid waste to thousands of hectares of arid mountainous forests.

Some teachers seem to always be able to achieve the impossible. Regardless of the academic records of their students when they come into their classrooms, these same children leave with levels of achievement once thought to be impossible.

Margaret (Smith) Keibel was born in Lancashire, England in 1930.

Drivers who maintain that they have every right to travel in the left-hand lane on the highway if they are doing the speed limit may be in for a big shock when they are ticketed for doing so.

Although the world is now 99.9 per cent free of polio, the disease persists in some places. It can still paralyze and even kill those who contract it, usually children.

Most of us, of a certain age, were asked at some point in high school English to read George Orwell's novel 1984. For those who haven't read the book, it is a very dystopian view of the future written by George Orwell in 1948 and published in 1949.

This week is my mine and my husband's ninth anniversary. When you first get married, you think that you will never forget this date and you'll never forget to celebrate your anniversary.