Opinion

When it comes to new school announcements, it seems one in a single week is not sufficient.

There are new faces in Parks and Recreation, as well as the Kinsmen Aquatic Centre, and these two women have come with change on the brain.

This year in Yellowhead, and indeed across the Prairies, we were blessed with bumper crops. We were all out on our combines for hundreds of hours, harvesting our grain and making arrangements to get our product to market.

Dear Editor, To the lady who literally took her shoe grippers off and put them on my shoes as I was struggling to make it over the icy road to the sidewalk by the Barrhead Rexall to pick up my subscription – I can’t thank you enough ...

There’s no word yet on whether Dapp School will get the six modular classrooms and other modernization work that’s needed to turn it into the Pembina North Community School. This could be good news or bad news, depending where you’re standing.

Athabasca’s brick school is more than a stern and sturdy exemplar of early 20th-century architecture — more than the sum of its Indiana bathstone and Calgary red brick parts.

And on Wednesday the winds came. They huffed and puffed, causing mayhem across the county, bringing down trees and power lines. Add ice and rain to the problem and you have driving conditions that were treacherous.

Dear Editor; 2013 has come and gone and I don’t want to let 2014 get too far ahead of me before thanking my fellow citizens and neighbours for their support over the past 21 years, both at the polls and on the street.

Dear Editor, Once again I commend Edward Goodliffe of Busby for his determined attempt to insight enlightenment to a docile populace. I fear your words fall on the ears of avarice. I would add my words in hope the baneful would awaken.

It’s always tragic when people’s lives are cut short for whatever reason, more so when it’s sudden and accidental.