Opinion

Ken Dawson was born in Vancouver in the year of 1923, moved to Prince George in 1961 and started a very successful career as a vocational school welding teacher at the College of New Caledonia.

A Citizen reader called last week and left a message on my voicemail. Unfortunately, I got all huffy and deleted it with righteous indignation, rather than taking the caller, who was good enough to leave his name and number, more seriously.

Ah, summer. Time to empty your head, fill your cooler and recharge the batteries. Nothing on the horizon but day after carefree day of Huck Finn-ing down the river/surfing YouTube. Stretch out on the couch, turn on the television and ...

Jordan Bateman from the self-proclaimed Canadian Taxpayers Federation (members: zero) has again weighed in with advice for cities .

Nanaimo is slated to be the next B.C. city do undergo a core review of its operations. City bureaucracies are a bit like junk drawers; they need a good purging every once in a while.

A name is an identity, just as much as a face or a fingerprint is, and like all these things, a name tells a story of the past and the present.

I have been babying my garden this year like it will expire, bolt or disappear if I don't watch it continuously. Like many new gardeners, I am constantly surprised that what I planted early in the spring has grown.

Your article in Thursday's (July 2) paper refers to two copper wire thieves as "codgers" because they are both in their 60s. There are many of us who are well past that age and your inference is therefore that we are all old codgers.

I watch the Daily Show with Jon Stewart regularly and this past week has seen Jon at his best because of one other person - Donald Trump.

Dominion Day always reminds me of how important Barkerville has been, and continues to be, in the story of my life. Twenty-two year ago - on July 1st, 1993 - I participated in my first Dominion Day celebration in Barkerville as Miss Florence Wilson.