Opinion

You may want to think twice before answering your phone. At least our anonymous source who shared her shocking story with us will. We’ll call her Mrs. X.

An Edmonton teacher is looking to the past to create his cutting edge technique. Every day, Thomas Fraser, a Grade 6 teacher at Crestwood School, allows students to take half an hour out of each school day to play and imagine.

Let’s be blunt. No one could argue that Long Island Lake landowners shouldn’t be seething as their mill rates have nearly doubled this spring.

Two-and-a-half-million dollars is a lot of money. There are a many of things you could do with it. You could pave a few miles of road or build a few houses. You could event employ a school resource officer for more than a decade.

There is an old adage that there’s safety in numbers and there is a lot of truth to that statement. Whether it be on the battlefield, the school yard or in the workplace, when it comes to an individual’s safety, often more is better.

Over the past few months, I have taken a work experience student under my wing. Some of you may have seen her tagging along at a few events, and constantly asking me questions.

Dear Editor, After attending the amalgamation meeting on Tuesday, June 16, I found myself very disappointed with the apathy of people. Around 50 people attended and about one half of those people where staff and councillors.

Dear Editor, I take pen in hand today to write a “letter to the editor,” something I have not done in many years.

Last week’s decision – if we can call it that – by Athabasca town council to reduce the speed limit in two local neighbourhoods is quite the head-scratcher.

The last few weeks have shown that maybe the new school project should be abolished, or at least put on hold. Extra costs are already multiplying into the millions of dollars, and yet basic questions are still unanswered.