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I well remember Irwin Drugs on the corner of 17th Avenue and 8th Street S.W., way back after we arrived in Calgary, and I was selling advertising for The Albertan
Choreography is such a nice word – looks good and it rolls off the tongue. I don’t pretend to be a lover of ballet, but its meaning in suggesting the
I’ve often commented that the older you get, the louder the music. But do I detect a raising of the noise levels in TV sports? I suspect that engineers increase
I admit to being a man who can bear a grudge. Despite events like George Brookman’s Breakfast on the Peace Bridge fundraiser, I’ve yet to set foot on it. I
I am really fed up with decision makers – whoever they may be – who want to protect us all from things that just might upset our day. Especially last
Some new developments take a long time to percolate, but the 10 years Dick Haskayne had to wait to see the opening of the regional park that he had donated
There are a number of words that one rarely hears or reads anymore. Ones that I would like to resurrect – like henceforth, niggardly, daft and kerfuffle. Codswallop is a
I’ve started to watch baseball. Never played it and can’t quite fathom all the rules yet but am enjoying the ups and downs of the Blue Jays. Wonder why so
It’s really too bad that there is not more competition in the domestic airline industry as the two big carriers continue to put people off travelling by air. Yet, despite
The voice of the people was heard and listened to, thank goodness, as the decision to ban fireworks was reversed by the City. Never heard of Common Sense Calgary but
