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...
Hodge Podge by Charlie Hodge – June 5
There is some truth to the adage, “The apple does not fall far from the tree.” The assumption being of course that genetics tends...
One A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – Be who you are meant to...
Bruce Jenner, the man who became a national hero during the 1976 Olympics, when he won a gold medal and...
Hodge Podge by Charlie Hodge – May 28
I am blessed in so many ways, with several of the various rewards from such fortune seeming to come in cycles. One of the...
One A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – A second chance at life
My father had three kinds of cancer last year: basal cell carcinoma caused by sunburns as a kid, a low grade leukemia that needs...