Â鶹´«Ã½AV

There's a lot of talk of becoming all you want to be. Whether in a religious, motivational or business setting the emphasis is on determining in your mind what you want to achieve and then daring to move forward in pursuit of your goal.

Every year in Saskatchewan there is a strange phenomenon that occurs throughout the growing season known as the Evanescere Citrullus linatus.

I have an important declaration to make in my column this week. I am declaring the month of November to be "Newsroom Appreciation Month," in honour of the hard work of those individuals who work in the news media around the world and here at home.

Ed, my neighbour next door, celebrated Halloween night greeting trick and treaters at his door. Both Ed and I think treating excited youngsters with chips or candy is great Halloween fun.

I'm glad I didn't see any white poppies at Humboldt's Remembrance Day ceremony Monday. And I'm very glad I didn't see them at Ottawa's ceremony at the National War Memorial, next to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Another week and we are now into winter. An ugly storm last Sunday closed the highways. There were reports of an 80-vehicle line up east of Maidstone. Waseca Hall was going to have their annual fall supper but due to weather it was cancelled.

I don't know RCMP Sgt. Neil Tremblay. But I sure am impressed by him.

This past week the $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event wrapped up at the Rio in Las Vegas, with the final table of nine individuals competing to see who would take home the first-place grand prize of $8.3 million dollars.

Thousands of settlers arrived from western Ukraine to homestead on the prairies. Visiting that area for two weeks earlier this fall, I reflected on how similar the landscapes were.

Help! Here in Powell River where little gets in except by plane or boat, we've been invaded and that by a species once considered highly improbable to ever reach our shores. But it's true.