On A Brighter Note – Simplifying the Christmas season by Lori Welbourne
It’s that time of year when some of my friends and family start stressing out about Christmas and I’m reminded of the...
Hodge Podge by Charlie Hodge – Podge Predictions
Maintaining a silly tradition, I somewhat sheepishly submit  my regular predictions for the upcoming 2015-2016 NHL season a.k.a. The HodgePodge Clip and Laugh NHL...
On A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – Live life to the fullest
 Last Saturday in between games at my 12 year old daughter’s fastball tournament she received a message that Caleb Logan was dead. I had...
Hodge Podge by Charlie Hodge – October 1
Today’s original column is likely still floating about in techno-space somewhere looking for a lonely doorstep on some lonely planet upon which to land.Clearly...
On A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – Reconnect by disconnecting
Camping at the beautiful Mabel Lake Provincial Park came at a price last week: I had to function without the Internet for the...
Hodgepodge by Charlie Hodge – August 13
I have always enjoyed telling tourists where to go and how to get there - especially when it comes to them having fun and...
On A Brighter Note – The hitchhiker’s guide to safety by Lori Welbourne
My parents taught me to never hitch a ride and never pick up hitchhikers, but after becoming a cabbie in North Vancouver at...
The right to bare chests – On A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne
In Canada, wherever a man can go topless, a woman can go topless too. I didn’t discover that until two summers ago after I...
On A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – Stop dog theft in the Okanagan
In the last year and a half at least 22 dogs have been stolen in the Okanagan and at least 52 more have vanished...
Hodge Podge by Charlie Hodge – June 19th
I’m not so sure about ‘dynasty’ as a deserved term, however certainly the Chicago Black Hawks deserve full applause for earning their third Stanley...