By Ken Johnston
Editor

Riverview School was given a certificate in Recognition of Excellence last Tuesday.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

I would like to once again thank you for the faith you have put in me and for the kind words of encouragement I have received over the past twelve months.

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAFRA Rep.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

This is a curious little duck, in very many ways. No other is anything like it, nor even comes close.

The largest recall of beef in Canadian history is underway and expanding. At the time of writing this column no one, including Gerry Ritz the Harper Government’s Minister for Agriculture, knows when it will end, how many more products will be added, and when the actual problem will even be identified at the processing plant in question. I think it’s prudent at this point to take a look at what has happened and what we know at this point.

We all pass through milestones in our lives. Many change the direction of our lives for better or worse. You will remember the day you married; the birth of your first child; the death of a parent. All are important days in our lives.
For children, a big event is their first day at school. On that day, parents realize that their youngster is growing up. And on their graduation from high school it is the sudden realization that their child is moving on into the bigger world.

How ironic is it that the provincial government mandated that municipalities could not carry a deficit for more than two years back in the 1930s, but yet the province itself has spent us into the hole nearly $15 billion.
Its like the pot calling the kettle black.
So here we sit with municipalities forced to be responsible governments, but the people enforcing that rule spending out of control.

Letter to the Editor,

By Ken Johnston
Editor