A brief introduction – News stories, photographs, and editorial/opinion pieces are all very well, but sometimes …perhaps a story should be just that–a story. In this second year of the pandemic, we all need some fun. And fiction is fun. Ms. Murphy writes short fiction from prompts that provide focus. These will be included in every […]
Archives for January 2021
Letter to the editor
Time to reconsider support of Cannings re-election I have always considered our MP, Dick Cannings, to be an effective nonpartisan representative of our region. But his refusal to support the efforts of his fellow Okanagan MP, Dan Ashton, to free interprovincial wine trade is causing me to reconsider. The current minority government situation provides a […]
Quebec and Ontario lead the way
by Curtis Zutz
Warm and wet
Coots on the lam
Submitted by Audrey MacNaughton Coots slowed down highway traffic recently escaping from the crusty ice on Vaseux Lake Traffic was forced to slow down this morning because these Coots were crossing the highway. Some ended up eating on my lawn. The open water on Vaseux Lake is getting very small.
Lexicon
Self isolation now morphs into a quarantine Clusters, outbreaks, cases, hospitalizations, (make your own list of words rarely ever spoken) No mask required becomes any mask will do, now masks should be upgraded to hospital quality and put on two or more….. What is next? “Resistance is futile”…..means, ‘don’t bother resisting because we’ll overtake you’. […]