Opinion

Open the gate and let ‘em out! The boys of October are upon us, the traditional world series of baseball is now underway, and you likely won’t see many of us sports fanatics until the last out is made!

I am pleased to see that they are really clamping down on speeding, impaired driving and other traffic violations. As well as adding more police officers along the highways and in all areas of crime enforcement, they are also increasing the fines and consequences for those who break the law.

There has been much recent attention given to the decision of two Alberta Catholic school boards to not host immunization clinics for young female students. Administering the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in schools was recently voted on by the Calgary Catholic school board on Sept. 24 and by the St. Thomas Aquinas school board on Sept. 19.

Editorial

Hammertime

After quietly managing to slip past another birthday last week I now find myself casually cruising down route 66 in an antique, but only slightly used condition.

There are approximately 6.7 billion people in the world, each one with their own jobs, hobbies, family, friends and struggles, but a common life issue that links us all together is cancer.

Freedom of speech and expression is one of the greatest rights a Canadian can have, it helps make the country a beautiful place to live and work. However, there is a definite line of what can be said and done and what should be said and done.

A real highlight for me over this past year was attending a special fundraising dinner in Red Deer for Special Olympics, with the featured guest speakers including world class women’s aerialist Deadra Dion and Hanna, Alberta’s favourite son and hockey super star, Lanny McDonald.

Four days after the closing of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, China lit the 2008 Paralympic torch at Beijing’s ancient Temple of Heaven, marking the start of the Sept. 6 Games.