We don’t really want to really poke fun at a news / anchor / afternoon entertainment host, so we won’t name the person.But it was a chuckle last week when the host talked about how prices for everything from toilet…

Many people leave things until the last minute.Ourselves, we don’t keep the wine cooler stocked. Not even close. When the friends say they are coming to visit, we make a mad dash to the goodie store just before they show…

We were wondering why our butter was so hard to spread.Butter? Hard to spread? What kind of earth-shaking news is this?Well, according to all kinds of news reports and postings online, this is a really big deal. Personally, we just…

Yup! We missed springing our clocks forward!So, late for church. Figured it out so wasn’t late for work Monday.And will also be on time for St. Patrick’s Day this Wednesday. * * * * * * * A Slave Lake…

TV news last week told us that northern lights are going to be really fantastic all this year.So of course, Thursday night we stayed up for a couple of hours. The skies were clear. Stars sparkled. Night was dark. Suffice…

Well gosh, trust CTV and CBC TV news to set the record straight!So last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a telephone chat with new American President Joe Biden.Both the national networks reported that life is going back to normal,…

PPsssst! Hey, over here! Shhhh! Wanna buy some Bitcoin? Don’t like the $50,000 price tag for one coin? Have I got a deal for you!Did that sound like the shady character in the trench coat, opening it up to reveal…

“Golf and fishing are the two finest sports a man can enjoy. You can do both until the day you die, and both allow you to open a beer at seven o’clock in the morning.” – Grandpa Jonesy“No matter how…

We reported Ground- hog Day news last week at our websites at smokyriverexpress.com, southpeacenews.com and lakesideleader.com. Because you know, [to borrow a phrase from a news group down east] “We aren’t a daily newspaper. We’re hourly news!”Well, we are not…

Tuesday, Feb. 2 is Groundhog Day!As of this writing on Friday, the forecast for this part of the world is cloudy with a chance of snow. Which, according to traditional sayings, means spring is on the way.But, if the groundhog…

Well gosh, all you silly people out there who thought the $300,000 enclosure for stray animals like dogs and cats was a waste of money!That 300 grand is somewhere around the price tag of the newish pound at Big Lakes…

This is supposed to be La Nina weather!La Nina, which means Little Girl in Spanish, is the opposite of the El Nino [Little Boy] weather event.El Nino means warm weather, drought and drier than average conditions for our part of…

As John Travolta [or is it Nicolas Cage in disguise?] says in the movie Faceoff, “Well, what we have here is a real predicament.”So, too, does Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. One opinion poll currently in progress, asks questions revolving around…

Are people still having babies?Historically, it certainly is true there are “baby spikes.” These are bumps in the birth numbers, that happen after blackouts, and big storms.So, if we are all ordered to stay at home and keep our distance…

“He that insists on making himself a sheep, will indeed be eaten by a wolf.” – Old Italian saying * * * * * * * “We are all in the gutter. But some of us are still looking at…

“I once paid a woman what I thought was a very flattering compliment – ‘Being with you is almost as good as being alone.’ – but for some strange reason she didn’t seem to appreciate it.” – Richard Needham *…