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It is planting time, and I find myself overwhelmed with the urge to dig up some earth and plant something.

HST a good thing for area ranchers

Yale treaty is B.C.'s toughest test yet

Yale treaty is B.C.'s toughest test yet

Get back on that horse

I used to bike to work. I used to bike to work a fair distance even, up a very long and fairly arduous hill to the Williams Lake Airport.

Small-town reporting sometimes a moral quagmire

Recently I was approached by a business owner in town who felt that a story I had printed some months ago had damaged his business. The story had not painted a particularly positive picture but he claimed that the problems on which I had reported were not the fault of either him or his staff and that I should not therefore have printed the name of the business in the story, leading he says, to loss of custom.
Selling HST to the ‘me’ generation

Selling HST to the ‘me’ generation

Aquatic centre committee still welcoming ideas

At the outset of our mandate from District of Vanderhoof Council to research the feasibility of having an aquatic center constructed in Vanderhoof we anticipated that the process to glean information and disseminate our findings to taxpayers to garner support for the pool would be a timely process and even today after more than two years we get new ideas that will help us to decide what we recommend for the final function and design of the facilit

Marriage a game of luck?

It’s my parents 27th wedding anniversary this week. Not a bad record these days!
HST debate heats up as vote nears

HST debate heats up as vote nears

No more tears

Last week I picked up a hitchhiker. This in itself was not abnormal. When I was living outside of Vanderhoof, I would often give rides to people from Stoney Creek on my way to town.