Opinion

Last weekend in Three Hills, the Boyle Blazers bantam hockey team accomplished something that few ever do. The group of local athletes earned the right to call themselves the provincial champions.

The provincial election only became official on Monday, but the opening salvos of the campaign are already being fired in Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater.

Some of history’s most celebrated figures had it.

The office statistician who probably has bulging files on us – I bet she knows the number of hairs on our heads (five, in my case) – congratulated me recently on my six-month anniversary at the Leader. Six months.

Dear Editor, I am writing this is reply to a certain “personal resignation” letter from Donna Mendelsohn in the March 13, 2012 Leader (name used with permission) I happen to have been a corresponding journalist for over 65 years and in all this time

Dear Editor, Re: Mar 13, 2012 article – Difference of opinion behind resignation… Perhaps you might clear up some confusion, Mr. Editor.

Hockey is Canada’s game. It’s also a huge focus across the province right now, with minor hockey players across Alberta travelling to towns near and far to compete for provincial glory.

Dear Editor, Life as we know it, with all our freedoms, may not be the way of the future. I am crying WOLF, but not without reason. Bills 19, 36, 50 and 24 have been passed to become law.

Dear Editor, This bio-fuel that we are now subjected to using is causing nothing but grief. Vehicles burn far more of it. It is more expensive and we have to add conditioner, which is expensive.

Last week, Morning Star Ink had the good fortune to be the first local business to be the subject of a Cash Mob. Organized by Sherrie Breese, the mob descended on the business last Thursday.