Perspectives

In talking to an acquaintance the other day about broken beer bottles on the street, we reminisced of the bad old days when we used to collect beer and pop bottles at the roadside.

Canadian TV watchers were no doubt shocked and dismayed at the news of Steve “Crikey” Irwin’s death. Irwin, the famed ‘Crocodile Hunter’, was killed by a stingray while working along the Great Barrier Reef.

Our group of avid golfers made an excursion to Orillia the past week in an effort to distribute our golf balls more widely across the province.

The reports from three opposition members coming out of the Middle East somehow struck a chord with the children’s’ rhyme concerning three blind mice who took after the farmer’s wife.

The small resort town of Huntsville was invaded on Saturday August 12. It was an invasion that the town expected, but nonetheless was at times overwhelming at Avery Beach on Hunter’s Bay.

On August 13, Fidel Castro will reach his eightieth year and some folk in Washington DC are planning a party for him.

The recent kafuffle over the City of North Bay’s Noise By-law and its exceptions and enforcement brings to the fore how the City tries to regulate our behaviour.

We seem to be developing a strong penchant for putting ourselves in harm’s way and then expecting our government (other Canadian citizens) to haul us back to safety when things run amok.

(A Disraeli Club Report) Thursday is scotch night at the Disraeli Club. Tuesdays we drink martinis, but on our other meeting night, we celebrate the coming weekend by drinking a fine scotch.

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