Opinion

Dear Editor, The last Dupre landmark is no more. The community hall (formerly the school), the teachery, the Ukrainian orthodox church and now the Ukrainian Catholic church are all gone. The structures that once anchored Dupre no longer exist.

I would like to raise the issue regarding the Halloween night curfew (in Bonnyville). I'm shocked that a town with rising numbers of young families has to abide by a 7 p.m. shut down of festivities and trick or treating.

The weather has already dipped below the freezing mark this month, and that means another busy season is about to begin for at least one non-profit organization in the area.

A lot of my days, evenings and weekends consist of managing memory cards, digital files and feelings of frustration toward technology.

When opposition parties or other candidates say other politicians are 'doing it wrong', why doesn't that make us want to vote for a change. Voter turnout is pretty low for all the election hype.

After years of debating and arguments and failed negotiations, Canada's premiers finally reached an agreement to move forward with a national energy strategy at last month's annual premiers conference in Charlottetown.

This week on Days of our PC Lives: leaked information, cabinet ministers under attack, infighting, scandal, corruption – tune in next time to find out what happens next as our political world turns.

I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude lately. I notice the topic is everywhere, from the friend blogging about keeping a gratitude journal to others posting lists of things for which they are grateful.

Here at the Bonnyville Nouvelle, we hear from a lot of different people, on a variety of issues.

Bring up the words “traffic” and “Bonnyville” with anyone in town and you are almost guaranteed to initiate a rant about the quality of drivers who travel the area's roads.