Free at Last! Three years ago this weekend Kevin Garratt stepped off the plane in Vancouver as a free man. He and his wife Julia had been in China for about 30 years: teaching English, operating a coffee shop near the border with North Korea, channeling aid to needy people in North Korea and […]

SPARE THE ROD AND SPOIL THE CHILD Most people of my generation were brought up in the old fashioned way, bad behaviour earned corporal punishment, usually in the form of a smack on the behind. Not for my grandma was the theory of talking to the child and explaining how my misdeed had caused her […]

Empty Closed OK Falls IGA what next?

1921 – Oliver was growing – an irrigation ditch was being built – workers had children so a small school was needed and it operated in the basement of the United Church and a nearby auto garage. by 1923 – a two classroom school had been built north of Fairview Rd ( School Board offices […]