Opinion

It’s hard to believe, but summer is drawing to a close, and with it comes the start of a new school year.

It is like the Olympics without an opening ceremony, strawberries without cream, peanut butter without jelly, sugar without spice, Romeo without Juliet. Some things are meant to go together and we can only think of them in partnership.

Dear Editor: It’s back to school time and the issue of school fees is here again. Parents should not have to pay school fees for required courses or programs of study in Alberta.

Dear Editor, An open letter to Canada Post and Prime Minster Stephen Harper I have written to this newspaper along with a few others in order to make my plea public, and perhaps convince you (Canada Post) to reconsider your decision to say no to our

This past weekend’s Blue Suede Elvis tribute music festival in Busby could only be considered a smashing success.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. So said Albert Camus, an author, journalist and philosopher. It seems now our second spring is almost upon us.

The bomb disposal unit swooped at some ungodly hour. The fumigators tagged along too, as did the garbage squad, herbicide experts, furniture movers and interior decorators. Quite a team, when you think about it.

Anyone who went to Kindergarten can recite it from memory; “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Unfortunately, as we all learn as we grow up, there’s not a lot of truth to that statement.

Last Monday's town council meeting-that-wasn't was, fortunately, one of a rare number of meetings that failed to take place due to a lack of councillors.

The thought of a new school being built in Athabasca sometime in the near future is an intriguing one.