April 13, 2006 RSS feed / Columns

Apologies, cheques for ancient sins

H istory has shown that human beings, while certainly capable of great good More...

Mad Hot Ballroom

I just rented a heart warming and amusing documentary which followed a bunch of New York City students, mostly 11 years old, as they prepared for a ballroom dancing competition. More...

Fame is Going to the Dogs

I 'm losing my anonymity. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that the Canadian edition of More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

Branch 233 will be closed April 14th to observe Good Friday. Please note that our Sunday Breakfast this month will be held Sunday, April 23rd. More...

Holy Week and Easter

We have come to those days that are at the very heart of our Christian faith. On these days, in heart and mind, we walk with Jesus from his triumphal More...

Wines have many levels, perceptions

Aprr ii ll Nottess ff rrom tthe Wiine Knott

The wine Knot is the area at the top of the grape vine trunk where each season the new shoots that will bear grapes emergeand normally where these shoots are pruned back each season - the start of the process of wine making More...

A hopeless task?

They keep trying, but city and town councils just about everywhere have More...

Kennedy, Rae may face similar problem

Politicians closely identified with a province find it difficult to get to the top in federal More...

Laughing at life

As an antidote to the solemnities of Passover and Easter, one turns to humour and calls to the defence the old aphorism that "a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men". More...

Dipping Into the Past

Spring millinery featured at four Shelburne stores

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 12, 1906  The spring millinery openings of the four dry goods stores in Shelburne, Messrs. N. Fisher & Co., E. Berwick & Co., R. H. Benson & Co. More...