Opinion/Letters to the Editor

I feel very sorry for Bob Mooney if he has gone through life with so little positive experience with performing arts that he sees it as just an elitist preoccupation (letters, Saturday, March 12).

There are some really stupid things on YouTube as well as some really funny items, but a TV ad I saw a while ago reminded me of my drive this week.

"Whatever you have in your hand today, can create your future" I used to own an automotive business. Every year we closed for a couple of days to go through the shop and take inventory.

This week's column is written by chef Tony Rechsteiner, who has been a chef for 39 years. Originally from Australia, he is a Certified Chef de Cuisine (CCC) and instructor in CNC's professional cook program.

I am always on the lookout for a good wine that is reasonably priced for everyone to enjoy. This week, I think I have hit the jackpot and have found three. The first wine featured is a full-bodied red from the heart of Valpolicella country in Italy.

Marichel Vineyard - Raisin d'Etre - Viognier - 2009 With this week's recipe, chef Tony Rechsteiner has given us a unique ingredient - radicchio, to use in a saut that gives us a little bit of every taste: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, to make a delicio

Sometimes learning a bit about the history of a wine makes it even more interesting and adds a new dimension to it.

Many of us have seen the shop owner on television who caught a shoplifter and then forcibly tied his hands. Much to everyone's surprise, the owner subsequently was arrested for using excessive force, but later the judge later acquitted him.

Many now acknowledge that stock markets in the previous decade were beset, in the words of the Federal Reserve Board's Alan Greenspan, by "irrational exuberance".

To the editor, I would like to make a few observations on the new police building. I think the one that is being proposed is a bit to grandiose, I think that it should be more in keeping with the other office building on Victoria Street.