Opinion

Our midsummer mascot, Great Blue, has inspired yet another column. Cochrane artist Suzanne Lorinczi, who had honoured the Great Blue Heron in one of her own works (see my column for Dec. 29, 2016), responded to my Aug.

Don't water your lawn at noon.

She came to Cochrane to meet my feathered friend Great Blue. She wound up introducing me to her feathered friends of a very different kind.

The Royal Proclamation of 1763 established a fiduciary responsibility by declaring the Crown’s obligation to protect Indians and Indian lands.

Hire strategically.

My final words as a reporter for the Cochrane Eagle.

It was exactly one year earlier almost to the minute, and I couldn’t help myself.

By Coun. Tara McFadden “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” It’s a Winston Churchill quote and if applied to Cochrane, we must be working on perfect. There is a lot happening in Cochrane.

This week’s column is by our son James Harbeck, an editor, linguist, writer, and photographer (sesquiotic.com), who is enjoying life in Toronto with his wife, Aina. James? I CAN SEE IT out my window, but it’s another world.

Does fear of failure too often inhibit you from creating something new and exciting? My older son Reg Harbeck, an Information Technology professional based in Fort Langley, B.C., dares to address the topic in this week’s guest column.