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I want to address the elephant in the room. Truth and Reconciliation is hard work for everybody, not just a box to check off and say it is done.

Am I complaining? NO! – I am still alive. I have spent four weeks in the hospital with discovery and four weeks at home, recovering. The rule for me is no swallowing since what I swallow may go into my lungs instead of my stomach. I am given water, medications and nutrition directly from a liquid in

Despite Legion branches across the province being closed due to the current COVID directives, our Service Officers are still available to help.

Now that I’ve scared off 96 (100?) per cent of my readers, I have to come clean on something. Pun heavily intended. The night of Friday, Jan. 14 marked my first shower of 2022. Not out of choice really, more a representation of present circumstances.

You may remember last summer a small committee of volunteers placed poppy rocks on the veteran graves, which Clarence Keiffer located in Walkerton Cemetery and Calvary Cemetery.

I have slipped back into a bit of a habit, if you would like to call it that. 

A multi-functional mineral, salt comes in different forms and is used for many different purposes. From preserving and flavouring food to home health remedies, salt has been used for thousands of years.

In our house we eat a lot of bananas. They are cheap, nutritious, and easy to handle for young children. With the glaring exception of the potato chip aisle, we do our best to shop the outside of the grocery store.

Finally, 2021 is history. The expectations for 2022 are great with the pandemic fading into the past. Time to deal with the future.

Alright, I’ve had about a week to cool down over this one. Albeit it didn’t help much – I’m still pretty ticked off, as are a lot of people.

We’re rolling into 2022 and it seems like people were just complaining about the horror show 2020 was for them just yesterday. I hope for those folks, 2021 was an improvement and 2022 is even better.