Opinion

Maybe it’s because we’ve had it so good for so long we feel entitled to life as we know it.

Saturday Market moves indoors First Saturdays will be hosting a Christmas Market on Nov. 3 all day in the Foothills Community Centre.

Once there were two brothers who were too much alike and too competitive for their own good.

This may take me a while, forgive me, but I have an extremely bad headache. Besides, I probably will not remember it in five minutes anyway.

It’s time to start packing your Samaritan’s Purse shoebox. Deadline week is Nov. 19 to 25. You may pick up and drop off your boxes at Valley Neighbours’ Club.

Wow, what a difference a week makes. Why can’t we just slowly work our way into winter? Instead, we wake up to a raging storm of ice, snow and wind. On Tuesday it was minus 7 but with over 90 per cent humidity it felt like minus 15.

Back in 1997, the council of the day was sold on the idea of capping the size and population of Okotoks. Also, the town was to live within the capacity of what the Sheep River could supply for water for consumption.

I still cannot go to sleep without hearing their incessant buzzing. Should I feel a breeze on my neck I start swinging frantically thinking I am being attacked by the swarm.

Bev and Vance Ertmoed hosted the VNC garden club meeting on Oct. 11. Vance gave us a demo on wine making and we got to taste the finished product. The garden club winterized the planters at VNC on Monday. We appreciate their artistry and hard work.

It is people who make a community and never has that feeling been more apparent in my eyes than last Saturday when I headed out to help put some signs out for the Children’s Wish Foundation charity walk. It was just after 8 a.m.