Opinion

A few years ago my nephew, a college dropout, had just the wrong combination of brilliant and cocky, which left him a little short on cash and a lot long on cockamamie during a family vacation to Israel.

I am writing to compliment the City of Prince George and each and every one of its employees. So very glad the roads are being repaired but more over, the city is beautiful - the Civic Centre, Canada Games Plaza, the Aquatic Centre and the Library.

The continuing heat and drought in British Columbia has more than a few people hot under the collar.

City council is looking over its collective shoulder, wondering just what Eric Allen is going to do next.

We know a great deal about the tools left by our ancestors but not much about their culture. Thirty thousand years ago, did humans look up at the night sky and wonder? I would like to believe they did.

My grandfather would smile and nod a lot. Now I understand. I wasn't always hard of hearing. It sneaked up on me. People who mumbled and failed to enunciate their words properly increasingly began to annoy me.

It is beneficial from time to time to step back and consider what we have today. As long as I can remember people have criticized governments and yet, today, we have a good lifestyle. Governments as a whole have done a good job.

Opinion polls can't be counted on to reliably predict election results, that is for certain, but that doesn't mean they should be thrown out entirely. Defenders of political polls like to talk about them as snapshots of the electorate.

We all have dreams and amazing, creative ideas going through our heads every day. What is the greatest factor in determining whether or not these ideas become a reality? We are.

My column today is quite different than my usual column about people; today the column is about an event and specifically about the Prince George senior secondary school (PGSS) 50 - 55th Year Reunion.