06/15/2017 - 06:44
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!”
- The Wizard of Oz
Nearly every one of us is familiar with that comical moment in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy’s little dog Toto pulls back a curtain to reveal a man manipulating a number of controls. Read more
06/02/2017 - 01:29
As Canadians and westerners in general, who base the functioning of their societies on democracy or majority rule, we are increasingly seeing a trend toward a different style of governance, and one, in my opinion, that we should be concerned about. Read more
05/04/2017 - 00:00
I have a confession to make. I really don’t like election time. Even before entering the world of running a newspaper, I have found election dialogue to often be too negative and antagonistic than is necessary. Read more
04/20/2017 - 17:09
I know, the title of my editorial appears to be a contradiction. While the root of both words comes from the Latin “voluntaries” which means “voluntary; of one’s free will”, the prefix “in” at the beginning of the word “involuntary” signifies “not”. Read more
04/06/2017 - 00:00
“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.” Helen Keller
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03/09/2017 - 00:00
Last week I had the opportunity to attend a writing session offered by CBAL. A group of about seven adults had been meeting for several weeks each Tuesday to hone their writing skills with the help of CBAL coordinator Bridget Uhl.
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02/23/2017 - 00:00
Yay! Seedy Saturday is coming up. For our outside readers this is the spring event in the Valley.
A group of eager planters congregate in the Dunster school and talk seeds and sowing, cultivating and composting. Seeds and books and words of wisdom are exchanged.
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02/09/2017 - 00:00
There’s a line that goes, “the boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places.”
Pleasant places. Just those words alone tend to make a person feel good. No anxiety, no stress, anger or frustration.
That’s what I’ve witnessed over the last week or so.
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01/26/2017 - 00:00
Do you know where the word “candidate” comes from? According to a number of references, in ancient Rome, when someone was campaigning for public office, they wore a toga that had been whitened with chalk as they greeted voters. The Latin word “candidatus” eventually came to mean “wearing white”.
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01/12/2017 - 00:00
Here we are, launched into another new year and already off to an interesting start. A lot of things that happened in the last year have obviously set the tone for the upcoming one, some of the events still raising controversy.
As mentioned in the article on the front page, 2017 is a year of special milestones, especially for those of us living in this region.
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