Month: April 2012

Poverty, poverty everywhere, and not enough being done to help those suffering from it – or so say the politicians seeking our vote to enable them to provide more governmental intervention. And yet the poor in the U.S. have so much more than the poor in third world countries. While poor children in America have…

At 12 the son of Inez and Wendell Colson organized fundraisers at his school to buy a Jeep for the Army to use in World War II. At 17, he worked as a volunteer to re-elect the governor of Massachusetts. At 21,  with his bachelor’s degree in hand, he served with the U.S. Marine Corps.…

At its Tuesday, Feb. 2 meeting council voted to seek funding through the Alberta Community Partnership Grant for improvements to the intersection of Airport Road and Sparrow Drive. The grant would be applied for alongside the City of Leduc. The basic car falls into the 30 per cent BIK tax bracket, while the S will…

My husband pointed at the blue glasses in the cupboard. “You choose every glass except that one,” he scolded. I just looked at him and his fuss over glasses. “That’s the one with the egg under it,” he explained. I should have known. A couple of weeks ago he insisted on buying two bags of…

The crowd drooped as the day waned, but no one wanted to leave the gathering. The sun said it was time to eat. The sound of grumbling stomachs said it was time to eat. But the thousands who had gathered quickly that day had no food. Oh, some had grabbed a hunk of bread as…

The spring fun began when tiny tots invaded the quiet of our old folks home for an extended weekend. Ready to run and roam after a long ride, they entered the house with energy enough for an egg hunt. My husband grabbed the bag of plastic eggs and began hiding them out in the open…