Penton: Avalanche ride Makar to Stanley Cup
When you’re being compared to Bobby Orr, you know you’re special. When Paul Coffey is used as a comparable player, maybe, just maybe, you’re pretty good.
Pop 89: The Passion-for-Animals Gene
I look out my living room window at a field. Some days the field is full of cattle, and in the spring, calves skip and scurry back and forth like puppies.
Check It Out: Do politicians have a sense of humour?
Lady Astor said to Winston Churchill, “If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea.” To which he responded, “Madam, if you were my wife, I’d drink it!”
Growing Through Grief
If you are reading this you likely have lost someone you love or you know someone who has lost someone they love. If you haven’t yet, you will. There is no doubt that in your lifetime you will experience some type of loss.
PGA Tour facing stiff challenge
The Professional Golfers Association Tour, which has rolled along with nary a serious hitch for nearly 100 years, has hit a huge pothole or, more accurately, a gigantic crevasse.
Letter: Teaching us about Mental Health Awareness
More often than not, there is someone in our family who is dealing with Mental Health issues. However, many of us do not understand or know how to help our loved ones with the issues they are facing, we are not trained.
Pop 89: For Heather’s Sake
The religious historian Huston Smith prefers to think of luck as grace. Well then, my first summer in Val Marie I was graced with Heather Richardson as a neighbour.
Check It Out: Circumventing rising food prices
We’ve all heard the old adage, “history repeats itself”, to which someone added their own comment ... “and every time it does, the price goes up.”
A Little Bit Western: Off Label
Some things need warning labels. Hopping onto a roller coaster, for example, warrants a cautionary tag, as does applying pesticides, or walking on unstable terrain too close to the edge of a cliff…
Pop 89: Body & Soul
I’m coughing like a sailor and can’t do much but read. Foolishly I read my emails. One contains this message by theologian Ilia Delio: “We live in a volatile world where catastrophic events seem to happen spontaneously and ever more frequently.
Penton: Yankees, Mets headed for October showdown
Hey, baseball fans, get ready for the possibility of another Subway World Series. New York Yankees and New York Mets are flexing their baseball muscles in the first few months of the 2022 season…
Check It Out: Breaking records and throwing stones
Are you ready for this week’s joke? Here it is ... My neighbour has proudly informed me that he has made the world record books for having the most concussions ever recorded ... 147.
Penton: Woods authors amazing comeback story
He’s already clearly in the lead for golf’s Comeback of the Year award. Now Tiger Woods is hunting even bigger game.
Pop 89: Reunion
On Friday night the texts starts flying: Who’s bringing beer? I’m bringing tarts from mom’s recipe. Do you have any birthday cake candles? Yep.
Check It Out: The value of one expert testimony
An old man walked up to the counter of a pawn shop holding an old, weathered guitar. “I’d like your expert opinion on how much this guitar is worth,” he said.
Pop 89: Engaging God
Lately, I’ve been reading lots of theology, which is “the study of the science of religion,” that place where theo (gods and God) and logos (word) meet.
Penton: Fox betting big on Brady as broadcaster
Sports fans know with certainty that Tom Brady can do amazing things with a football, especially throwing them for touchdowns while monstrous men are racing after him trying to crush every bone in his body.
Check It Out: Trading freedom for convenience?
Mrs. Jones said to her husband, “I got a text from my mom saying she’s not accepting our invitation to visit because she doesn’t feel welcome. What does she mean?
ER emblem brings fond memories of home
I am an old citizen of Eston and every time I see the ER emblem it reminds me of home.
Pop 89: Be better than this
This morning I walked past a couple who are clearly not from here. So, of course, I said hello.