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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Matthew 5:9.

Friends, It wasn’t until It Takes A Village started several years ago, that I personally began to better understand the ways in which women in our community are exploited and live in fear for their safety and wellbeing.

We have been through a period of high heat and now I am confident that it is over. We know that fall is coming soon because the corn on the cob season is upon us. Today, I started to husk fresh cobs to freeze for great corn all winter, plus one for dinner.

A mere 54 weeks ago, I wrote in this space about having a moment where you feel like your life is flashing before your eyes.

We may have escaped the worst of forest fires and flooding, but recent weather events in this part of Canada have some of us thinking about cows – namely airborne cows, from tornadoes.

It sucks. There is no way to sugar coat it, no way to make it sound better than it is, other than to say it sucks. The layoffs at Wescast, announced last week, suck.

Build it and they will come.

At the height of the California Gold Rush in the mid-19th century, prospectors from all over the continent made their way to the territory for the opportunity to literally find their fortunes in the rough terrain surrounding the American and Sacramento rivers.

Friends, I recently returned from a solo road trip out to Western Canada.

“If you don’t know where you came from, how will you know where to go?” asked the voice recording of my Grandma Skinner. I heard versions of that phrase often when spending time in the log cabin south of Mitchell that my paternal grandparents called home by the time I came on the scene.

Is it “aging” or “ageing?”

I sometimes meet people who think I’m a little loony for believing that anything in the Bible is true. But I gotta tell you, this collection of 66 books written over centuries has got me hooked.

Surely, most of us reading this paper today are familiar with Hulk Hogan, perhaps professional wrestling’s first mainstream mega star.

A Canadian teen who scratched a name into a wooden pillar at a 1,200-year-old Japanese temple caused a bit of an international furor recently.