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GINTA – Chainsaw massacre of bushes at Peterson Creek not the way to do it

May 26, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT’S NOT EVERY DAY that you see someone in a municipal park hacking away at Saskatoon bushes with a chainsaw. You think you saw everything until you see that. On any [Continue]

GINTA – This is a good time to reconsider food production, processing

May 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO I went to pick up an order from the local Bulk Barn store. They are the revolutionary ‘bring your (any) container to refill’ buy-in-bulk business, [Continue]

GINTA – One step at a time: reminders of hope and resilience

May 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

WHEN I GROW OLD AND WISE, and if I ever get to be 101 years old, I want to be like John Hillman. You may have seen the news about this gentleman, but if you haven’t, well, [Continue]

GINTA – Wildlife shouldn’t pay the ultimate price during the pandemic

April 28, 2020 // 3 Comments

DO YOU REMEMBER the first couple of weeks of Covid-19 and the toilet paper shortage? Then came the flour and other dry supplies, followed by yeast. Next came the seed [Continue]

GINTA – Celebrate spring with simple offerings: food, smiles and no judgment

April 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

ON SATURDAY, OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD was speckled with yellow all over: bags of food donations for the Foodbank. To say that the Kamloops community gave generously would be an [Continue]

GINTA – Being kind is always the better option

April 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

MANY YEARS AGO, I found this piece of driftwood – a plank just wide enough and long enough to write a short something on, and that something was one of my favourite [Continue]