Opinion

Two weeks ago, two jet skis crashed in what was probably a game of chicken at Prelude Lake. The machines did not fare well though the young drivers escaped relatively unscathed. They are part of the ATV/jet ski community that make up a large body of campsite users at the park and who are making life unpleasant for everyone.

Have you ever wondered what the world would look like if aliens were invading the ecosystem with their animals, plants and machines? This book is a science fiction adventure book written by Kenneth Oppel. It is 404 pages and is the third book of the best-selling Bloom trilogy. Oppel wrote this story in 2020-2021 and it was published in 2021 by HarperCollins.

On National Indigenous Peoples Day a guy I didn’t know punched me in the face, then jumped into a waiting truck and took off. Say what? Yup, I was struck in the face by someone senseless enough to sucker punch a senior and then take off. Not cool.

I would like to apologize in advance to the Lovin Spoonful, for altering their song a little. It is one of my favorite summer songs.

Friends, it’s hard to tell exactly what awaits you upon returning home.

Rubber duckie, you’re the one,

Canada Day is coming up and it will be a July 1 like no other. Many people will be waving their flags at half mast, if at all, and others will be confused not sure what to do knowing that with the discovery of the remains of 215 children from one school in Kamloops, B.C. alone, our history is tragically and brutally flawed. Waving a flag now will be difficult, if not impossible, unless we make a commitment to right action in reconciliation during the immediate years ahead.

“We instill in them a pronounced distaste for the Native life so that they will be humiliated when reminded of their origin. When they graduate from our institutions, the children have lost everything Native except their blood,” said Bishop Grandin.

I am so very proud of all the Northern graduates getting through the school year during these trying times, but I have to say that I am especially proud of my son. It means so much that he made it through to the finish line.

The Maze Runner, written by James Dashner, is the first book of the Maze Runner series. The series consists of six books total and the three main books, The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure, have all been adapted into movies, although they are quite different from the books. The book was published by Delacorte Press in 2009 and the genre is Young Adult-Dystopian-Science-Fiction.