Opinion

Re: 'Peace River closed at Site C', Alaska Highway News, June 15 Today is the historic date that BC Hydro dictated the Peace River would be closed to navigation through the Site C dam location.

Each year since 2017, a cow moose has calved in the woods below our house at Baldonnel. In 2019, Lorne recorded in his diary for May 22: “I started around my 3-D course but cow moose with calf on it about half way round. I think she just calved.

Charo - I was thinking about the many differences between Trudeau and Trump, the two leaders of the New World. The two biggest hopes for a better future for our children.

As the Black Lives Matter protests continue, the background noise of calls to defund the police grows. As usual, when a new cliché is coined, the ten-second sound bites from politicians grow accordingly.

Birthday celebrations in 2019: “It’s time for cake!” Everyone trickles into the kitchen and surrounds the dining room table as the candles on the cake are set ablaze atop the artfully decorated cake. “Okay, let’s sing Happy Birthday...

The green shoots of recovery are beginning to poke above ground. Certainly, I don’t think that it is appropriate to get cavalier about COVID-19.

On June 1, children from across the province returned to classrooms after weeks of being kept at home because of the pandemic. It will, however, be a long time before our education system fully returns to normal.

It was a blue, blue day and I felt like running to my mamma for a little mamma-talk. Even that little talk with her would sooth my wounded spirits. Half way to the phone, my hand stopped and came back to the keyboard.

Jeanne and Barré Eyre are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on June 6. It will, of course, not be the party they originally planned. Fortunately, they had photos taken in December in preparation for their anniversary.

File this column under, “Things I think about as I try to fall asleep, but it’s too light out and the birds are loud, and I think I have a hornets nest right outside my window.” Ding! “You have recorded zero steps today.