Last week’s column on the start of construction of the Beatty Brothers Hill Street factory…
Columns
Does anyone remember the old Wellington County Police Association?
The picture accompanying this column should tug at the memories of some of the older readers of…
Winters coming
This past week I have spent almost every day outside in the fresh air and sunshine. Though the…
Merriment mayhem in the household
Deck the halls with boughs of holly. Yeah, it should be so easy. Try decorating a Christmas tree…
Canadas Emergency Measures Organization
One of the products of the Cold War of the 1950s was the creation of Canada’s Emergency…
Groundhog Day
I just can’t quite believe it. Even though the huge tractor-size snowblowers have cleared the…
Education
Has higher education joined the ranks of the rip-off artists? Are high-cost college and university…
Day by day
Day by day the long, cold winter has parted. I don’t remember a winter that in my mind has…
Chocolate thrills
Talk about the Easter Bunny and the temptation of chocolate treats everywhere I go has given me a…
Superior facts
Here are some little-known, amazing facts that most of us never realize, sent to me through the…
Sensitive consumers resist changes to corporate logos
For a surprising number of people, worrying about company logos is on the consumers’ agenda.…
Short lessons
I apologize to all the people in the grocery store last Tuesday night who witnessed the…
Canadas 4Fs help to keep us economically safe
In the Unites States at armed forces’ induction stations, those deemed medically unfit to…
Barn owls
This past week has been a rather interesting one for me. Apart from the interrupting interaction of…
Garlic
It’s not apple blossom time in Annapolis Valley, that is for sure, but it is garlic planting…