Opinion

If boxing is the sweet science and bingo is the lucky lotto I think horse racing is somewhere in between and deserves a similarily cool name.

The sky is clearing and the long range forecast shows nothing but blue sky throughout this years Calgary Stampede. Can you even imagine that this is the 100th year! I bet it has come a long way in those years and this one hopes to be the best ever.

“Political systems that were supposed to represent everyone now return governments of millionaires, financed by and acting on behalf of billionaires. The past 20 years have been a billionaire’s banquet.

The community garden had a work bee on June 25. We mainly worked on the thistles and quack grass on the berm. If anything positive can be said about pulling weeds, it was how pliant the soil was after all the moisture.

Greg Gibbs said he had a vision in his head — when he arrived at camp it would be a sunny summer afternoon with rolling grasslands, birds chirping and a warm meal and bed in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

I don’t know if we should measure the results in dollars spent or number of pages, but I can guarantee you 15 people could read the results and come up with 15 different conclusions for the Town of Okotoks’ growth survey.

The wild roses are finally in bloom. They are the scent of Alberta and I love them. Sheila, Bea and Margaret formed the Garden Club work bee on Friday to do the landscaping under the sign.

I think we have gone too far when I see some school divisions have a policy not to give students a zero for work not completed.

With all the rain over the past couple weeks you had to wonder whether or not we would get the Okotoks parade in? It turned into a good day for a parade and the entire day was just great.

My best friend likes to remind me I’m six months older than her, so for my last birthday she bought me a book called, “Younger Next Year for Women.