Opinion

I first met Gary James Smith at the Cochrane Outhouse Races in 2007. I’m looking forward to meeting him again.

Since this past spring, my wife Mary Anna has had the custom of concluding our lunches together in a totally engaging way.

We need your help as a community.

We have three coffee companions who truly are globetrotters. Literally! Burt Boucock, Marisa Croft and Lesley Neaves are siblings, the children of Cochranites Bill and (the late) Judi Boucock.

On September 19 , I finished teaching my first course with “Classrooms Without Walls.”

As we enter the post-Halloween season of Remembrance, we hope all our readers are taking time to put on a poppy and think about the contributions of our veterans to the society we enjoy today.

The current scene of racially and ethnically motivated conflict around the world has prompted me to revisit my Aug. 24, 2017 column on two humanity-saving lessons I’ve learned from Stoney Nakoda First Nations elders at Morley over the years.

This week is Fire Prevention Week throughout North America, and it goes without saying that local residents should be taking that message to heart and doing whatever they can to be fire smart and fire safe.

What happens when two diametrically opposed interests sit down in a room together to discuss their positions? Generally, a lot of fighting and arguing, and accusations thrown around without much being solved at the end of all that.

The spirit of intercommunity goodwill so evident at the Sept. 30 Stoney Nakoda Nations Truth and Reconciliation Day powwow at Cochrane’s SLS Centre prompts me to recall a story on handshakes and reconciliation.