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Fall harvest a rewarding time

Fall harvest a rewarding time

If you planted a vegetable garden, October can be a busy month as this is the time of year when the garden produce gets harvested, and the garden gets cleaned up. Most gardens in the Prince George area have been affected by a killing frost.
Thanksgiving wine ready for sipping

Thanksgiving wine ready for sipping

Thanksgiving is fast approaching. I've tried to find some good wines at a reasonable price that might help make the festive meals less stressful and affordable. Many of the red wines at the store are the same price today as they were in 2009.
Fighting climate change not worth the price

Fighting climate change not worth the price

So the Toronto Star is upset that Conservatives are doing nothing about climate change. (Citizen, Sept. 29) By comparison, for many years preceding Liberal governments did....
Time for candidates to break from their speaking notes

Time for candidates to break from their speaking notes

In the television series, The West Wing, there is a flash back scene in which Josh Lyman, the character that would later become the deputy chief of staff, is attending a traditional, so-called rubber chicken political fund raising dinner.
Change of course

Change of course

When Barbara Kennedy died in May of 2010 after a valiant fight with cancer, Christine Kennedy said goodbye to her mom and, at the same time, her hero.
School boards should evaluate their performance

School boards should evaluate their performance

People run for election as school trustees for a variety of reasons, and now is a good time for anybody who values public education to be thinking about that. The election is Nov.
Foreign grape gripes haunt B.C. wine

Foreign grape gripes haunt B.C. wine

The Okanagan's shame was laid before a committee of MLAs this week in Kelowna, and the issue is so sensitive the politicians scarcely had anything to say about it.
Cancer research deserves praise

Cancer research deserves praise

It's great news to hear that the B.C. Cancer Agency has devoted a researcher to creating various treatments using the mutations found in the tumours of individual patients. Dr.
Mattson case highlights hypocrisy of Liberal gov't

Mattson case highlights hypocrisy of Liberal gov't

VICTORIA -- When Opposition leader John Horgan staged a press conference this week to dramatize the botched firings in the health ministry, the backup cast of characters included one of the fired workers himself.
Still standing, still swinging

Still standing, still swinging

In Summer 1969, the fourth of a sequence of poems fittingly enough titled Singing School, the great Irish poet Seamus Heaney ruminates on hatred, helplessness, the Troubles and Goya.