Perspectives

At first quick reading of the Nugget headline I thought that the City of North Bay was not making enough grant applications to FedNor and like agencies, however that was not the case. We just are not making as many as other municipalities.

Sorry Anthony, but that does it. It was bad enough to have Dingwall rip us off but to have McCallum stand up in the House and repeatedly read what the lawyers told him to say was away too much.

My car has a neat little computer that displays all sorts of information like the direction I am heading, the outside temperature, the average fuel per kilometre, the current rate of rate of consumption and range before the next stop at a filling sta

One of my neighbours was concerned about my fish ponds as he brandished a copy of Saturday’s Nugget with its headlines on lakeside property assessment.

Dear Mr Westgate; Murray, I hope you are still around at the Imperial Oil office. Yours is the only trustworthy face I would recognize with a big oil company and I need to talk to some one important.

It is that time of year when my home duties change. The summer honey-do list disappears from the refrigerator magnets and I have to take over all the little regular chores around the house as my wife returns to teaching.

Wednesday morning the effects of hurricane Katrina were obvious on Algonquin Ave in North Bay.

I had the pleasant opportunity of accompanying our City’s only touring Dragonboat Racing team, the Warriors of Hope, on a trip to Port Dover and Welland over the weekend.

One has to feel a little empathy for the Graniteville residents who are trying to save the latest park area to fall victim of the 20/20 Vision.

One wonders how those stalwart residents of the GTA who so desperately wanted the gun registry feel about all the bullets whizzing around Toronto these days.