Local Voices

McQUARRIE – Suppose we hired 200 doctors and paid students’ tuition?

April 18, 2017 // 2 Comments

SUPPOSE, just for a moment, that B.C. decided to hire and pay a salary to doctors willing to locate to communities outside of the Lower Mainland. For sake of argument, [Continue]

COLLINS – The elephant in the room

April 18, 2017 // 1 Comment

WORLD TENSIONS probably haven’t been this great in a while. While North Korea is sending out coded transmission signals to their troops, and trying hard to show us they [Continue]

COLLINS – One of the good guys

April 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

HE WAS ONE of the good guys. John Dormer passed away this weekend at the age of 72. My association with John started when he was a representative for the then- B.C. Tel. He [Continue]

GINTA – A basketful of Easter memories

April 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

To this day, I manage to get a raised eyebrow or two when I step into a grocery store and ask for onion peels prior to Easter weekend I MUST’VE BEEN 10 or so when I got [Continue]

VIEWPOINT – Was it just a happy coincidence, or meant to happen?

April 17, 2017 // 1 Comment

WE WERE JUST about to turn away from a bus stop in Aberdeen, when we realized that we couldn’t take the bus. My friend and I forgot our student cards — for the first [Continue]

NEWSTROM – Our brain cells are like the sand of the Thompson River

April 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

LAST WEEK the mind topic was my bashed finger (the ring finger on my right hand) and the embarrassing question, did I arrange my own victim situation (18 bloody [Continue]