Happy Birthday Canada. Tomorrow we celebrate one hundred fifty-two years of accomplishment and contradictions. We will celebrate in towns and villages with the swearing in of any number of new Canadians. In our past and present we are surrounded by Canadian Inventions, we commonly use on a daily basis at least by most of us. When […]
Archives for 2019
Help fund the Cancer Car – have a lunch as well
LUNCH ON CANADA DAY? TRY OUR BBQ OUTSIDE OLIVER BUY-LOW BURGERS, HOT DOGS WITH FRIED ONIONS AND ALL THE FIXINGS POP AND WATER ALL BY DONATION MONDAY, 1ST JULY, 10.30am -2.00pm PROCEEDS TO THE CANCER CAR Have you or your family ever needed a ride in the Cancer Car, If not, you are very […]
Pee Wee hockey 45 years ago – does this relate?
large format press to enlarge 1975/76 submitted by Lindsay Peterson
by Jessica Murphy
POSTCARD FROM EMILY In a box of old papers in a second-hand store I found a postcard. No address, no date. It was short but poignant. It read: “My Dearest Daddy I am having a lovely time at Grandmas. Gee but I wish you were with us and I miss you so. To-day I helped […]
by Pat Whalley
THOSE LAZY, HAZY, CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER We are slowly getting into summer, a few hiccups but the weather is mainly hot and sunny, time to climb out of bed early to start my day while it is cool. Linger under the sheet too long and the day is getting warm and soon it is […]
Think about it with Joseph Seiler
Serious Seriously? That is to question the validity, solemnity, gravitas, genuineness, believability and severity of something. Is this seriously true? Do you seriously mean that you want me to do what you just asked of me? Serious is not just kidding, nothing comic about it, true and not to be made little of. Serious matters […]
by Gail Prior
THE ROSE He wasn’t begging, that much she had observed, after seeing him several times in various locations around town. He was using a dirty piece of green rag to pull an old metal grocery cart. The cart was loaded down with what appeared to be his earthly possessions. A deflated balloon hung forlornly from […]
On the Sunnyside
Building or Wrecking? I stood on the street of a busy town watching men tear a building down. With a ‘ho, heave, ho’ and a lusty yell they swung a beam and a sidewall fell. I asked the foreman of the crew, “Are those men as skilled as those you’d hire if you wanted […]