We live in a resource based community. The two major industries are pulp and gold. Mining, because it is an extractive industry has a finite life. When the gold runs out, the industry is gone. Our community has been anticipating the decline of the gold mines for some years now. Little did we realize that [...]
Archive for the ‘History Bites’ Category
Reeee-session…
March 5, 2010
I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more…
September 1, 2008
Daily we are hearing more and more in the news media that Prime Minister Harper is going to call a fall election. So here we go again with the expense and hype of an election before the term of the current parliament is up. This minority government was elected for a four year term for the [...]
If I grow up I think I will try archaeology
July 31, 2008
I’ve spent the day working in the sandbox again. Those of you who are wondering what a senior citizen is doing playing in a sandbox, rest assured I am not experiencing my second childhood. Yet! The truth be known, I have not yet left my first childhood. But, I digress. The sandbox is the whole [...]
The past returns to haunt…
July 20, 2008
I received a call on Friday last asking me if I could edit a photograph and take a person out of the picture. I agreed and the caller dropped the photograph off to be reworked. They want it ready for an up-coming school reunion. Many years ago I taught with a man who was charged [...]
