Dear editor, As a family we certainly would like to congratulate you for your annual “Glad Tidings” editorial, taken from Luke chapter two. I know we have often voiced our appreciation to each other for this very special message on Christmas Day. I also found it neat to hear somewhat […]
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Dear editor: On behalf of local seniors at the Sister Kennedy Centre, I would like to say we had a great year. Our records show we surpassed, by huge numbers, our 2012 attendance—and we are continuing to grow. This is an extremely proud event, and we will do everything to […]
As always, we plan and prepare much longer than it takes our special day to come and go! Here’s hoping everyone enjoyed themselves and got a belly full—the problem seems to be that our bellies continually get full! I overdid it on Christmas Eve so I had to take it […]
Who are you? Can you answer this question without using a name title? You are not a daughter or son, woman or man, a wife, a husband, a mother, a father, a single parent, or a grandparent. You are not a supervisor, or a secretary, divorced, or a homemaker, a […]
Sarah Pruys District municipal leaders took a little time last week to look back at 2013, as well as focus on upcoming topics including rural schools, mining, official town plans and bylaws, and the municipal elections that will take place in October. “We had a good year. We certainly had […]
Sarah Pruys Niko Ruppenstein, five, was all set to slide down the overpass hill on Friday afternoon. Many families spent the afternoon going up and down the hill, taking advantage of the nice weather before it turned bitterly cold.
Sarah Pruys Jesse Jourdain, 11, stole the puck from his friend, Taylor Dixon, 19, on Friday afternoon at the Sixth Street rink. Outdoor rinks across town were filled with people skating and playing hockey on one of the nicest days December has had.
2014 is on the horizon, only a few hours away. New Years is always the appropriate time to commit to make changes in one’s life. We like to make resolutions focusing on health issues. Our most common resolutions include losing weight, exercising more and complaining less. I have in the […]
As soon as Boxing Day has passed and I know for certain that Christmas has departed and taken my visiting daughters with it and I have managed to quit sobbing and have dried my eyes, then I have a tremendous urge for lists. These lists need not necessarily be of […]
Sarah Pruys The presents have now been opened and the new has replaced the old. But what to do with the old? There are a number of organizations around the district in need of donations to redistribute to people in need, but a problem all of them seem to face […]
