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Column: Summer salads for seniors

Column: Summer salads for seniors

Really, these salads are for anybody. I just like the alliteration. When the days get nice and warm and you don’t feel like a heavy, hot meal, a salad is often the perfect alternative.
Book Review: Historical journey through Colonel Forrester's eyes.

Book Review: Historical journey through Colonel Forrester's eyes.

It’s 1885, and Colonel Allen Forrester has been assigned to lead his men up Alaska’s Wolverine River.
Aiming for zero food waste

Aiming for zero food waste

A glimpse inside the refrigerator in 1957. Photo: © K.E. Eiche We’re in an era of excess, a word that comes from “excessus,” which to an ancient Roman meant something that went beyond the bounds of reason.
Column: A Post Retirement Project

Column: A Post Retirement Project

What to do you to when you’ve run a very large and hugely successful winery – Jackson Triggs – and you reach retirement age? You leave your job and start all over again with your own winery. And anyone who knows Don Triggs won’t be surprised.
All sexual acts with animals now illegal in Canada with new bestiality law

All sexual acts with animals now illegal in Canada with new bestiality law

Forcing an animal into any sexual act is now outlawed in Canada after the Senate finalized a bill to close a loophole in the country’s bestiality laws.
Book List: Best Middle Grade Books for Summer!

Book List: Best Middle Grade Books for Summer!

A World Below by Wesley King – Mr. Baker’s eighth grade class goes on a field trip to Carlsbad Caverns, but the students get trapped in the caves because of an earthquake.
Column: Summer exploration for seniors

Column: Summer exploration for seniors

While there are countless people searching for meaning beyond a leisurely retirement, there are also folks who just want to enjoy our beautiful summer, commitment-free.
Column: The first 'R'

Column: The first 'R'

The ‘how-to’ of waste management has been summed up in the three words reduce, reuse and recycle. The first of them – reduce – is the most important because the less there is to begin with, the less there is to recycle or reuse.
Column: Sensational summer sippers

Column: Sensational summer sippers

It’s June and as we approach the longest day, here are three wine picks to celebrate the official start of summer. There’s something good from Germany, something casual from Chile and something special from New Zealand.
Walk among hundreds of free-flying butterflies this summer in Vancouver

Walk among hundreds of free-flying butterflies this summer in Vancouver

This summer you can stroll through a lush, green, tropical rainforest amidst hundreds of butterflies