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The Page – October 13, 2021
Next Monday, Oct. 18 is municipal election day. Please do your duty and vote! The Page did get a call from a Salt Prairie resident complaining about the location of polling stations. For you foreigners in the Smoky River and…
The Page – October 6, 2021
The new boss at the government office was making his rounds outside one of the office buildings. He saw two employees standing by a bench. He asked them what they were doing just standing there when they should be working.“We’re…
The Page – September 29, 2021
The Page – September 22, 2021
Well, here we are in another health crisis!The Page is not an expert in the field and cannot offer any good advice. However, he was told the other day that masks were a good thing because it covered up his…
The Page – September 15, 2021
The Page – September 8, 2021
The federal election is in full swing and it appears a whole bunch of Liberal MPs are going back on their word. It’s a nice way of calling them fibbers.Here’s the interesting story. The Page was told last week by…
The Page – September 1, 2021
Happy Birthday, Alberta!She turns 116 today, Sept. 1!As a birthday present, don’t you think she deserves less Justin Trudeau, a capable premier to help her interests along, and an NHL hockey team that can get past the first round of…
The Page – August 25, 2021
Names are popping up everywhere as candidates for municipal offices around Alberta home in on the mid-October elections coming up in less than two months.Municipal districts, counties, towns, villages and cities, plus school board trustee seats, will all be up…
The Page – August 18, 2021
Think you had a bad day? Ever hear of the Curtea de Arges Monastery in Romania?Its chief architect was Mesterul Manole. While building the structure in the early 1500s, and due to a bet, he had to surround his pregnant…
The Page – August 11, 2021
Oh, what might have been!At this time 109 years ago the citizens of Grouard were thinking of incorporating into a town, which they eventually did.However, an almost forgotten fact arising from all this talk was village residents were thinking of…
The Page – August 4, 2021
Sauble Beach? Never heard of it until a Globe and Mail newspaper story caught our eye.Sauble Beach, Ont. is a popular vacation spot about two hour’s and a bit drive northwest from Toronto. It’s on Lake Huron and says it…
The Page – July 28, 2021
The Page gets many, many emails, one recently telling him that “the key to having a fresh-smelling bathroom might lie in the toilet paper, not the toilet itself.”Really!Family Handyman says, “all you need is a toilet paper roll — it…
The Page – July 21, 2021
We admit making a mistake on a headline recently. It is nice to hear there are more humans out in the world.A headline provided in a recent news release said, “Leduc RCMP assist in drowning of adult male at Wizard…
The Page – July 14, 2021
Sweat pouring off you? Turn the fans up to “Hurricane” speed!Maybe you are slobbering down gallon after gallon of ice cold beverages. Soaking towels in water and spreading them over yourselves and any pets looking like they need a cool…
The Page – July 7, 2021
Wow! What a scorcher last week! Record temperatures all over Canada and the Peace Country! The Page never heard so many people tell him they wished they lived in Inuvik!The Page became curious. Would an egg fry on the sidewalk…