Alex Has Opinions on Elections
On the day of publication for this issue, the Provincial Election is occurring, and nothing is scarier to me.
Firstly, the idea of spending more...
Bob’s Meanderings: The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of Part 2
Continued from Last Week’s Issue.
Leaded gasoline was plentiful, cheap and it didn’t smell. The group marketed the product as “Ethyl” gasoline deliberately omitting any...
Bob’s Meanderings: Peculiar Stories
How many have heard of a Blue Lobster – I haven’t? I only know one person that has. Gord Reeves of Beachburg saw one...
Have you ever wondered what Looking for trouble really means?
My mentor at a manufacturing plant in Toronto was frequently heard to say, “I’m looking for trouble!” When I first asked him what he meant...
Bob’s Meanderings: The Leather Jacket
Since I was a kid about to enter high school, I was lacking one piece of clothing that I wanted more than anything I...
Alex Got Lost: New Year, Same Missed Turns
Remember that one Thursday where the mist was incredibly thick?
I remember it, because I drove by too many familiar turns on my trips to...
Smiling Horses – it Happens!
Overheard in a coffee shop: a local farmer explained how his horse can ‘smile’. He continued, “He even acts offended if I don’t smile...
Bob’s Lost and Found
Sometimes when being preoccupied or simply by unexpected circumstances, everyone eventually loses something belonging to them. If the missing item is of value –...
Margot Kidder’s connection to the Ottawa Valley
I penned a letter to the editor of the Ottawa Citizen last week in response to their almost three-quarter page article on the death...
Truth can be Stranger than Fiction
There I was, a terrified Grade 6 kid, clinging from a rope to prevent a noose around my neck from strangling me, while dangling...
