Opinion

November is the best time to join a writer's group.

Nearly every week for the past several, the Journal has reported on accidents within walking distance from the office on 50 Avenue in St. Paul.

As I look out the vast sea of green off my back deck, I can just see the town of St. Paul in the distance. The lights of the Town twinkle in the distance at night.

The leaves are nearly done falling, the weather is turning cold, windshields are increasingly frosted in the morning, and snow will soon fall. It's that time of year again.

If one has paid any attention to the print, television or Internet news this past week, they will have noticed the Town of St. Paul is taking a beating.

The provincial and national media has shone quite the spotlight on a series of protests that started in New York and has since spread to Canada this past week, called ‘occupy Wall Street.

Do we need a video arcade in the Bold Center?

The Bonnyville Healthcare Centre has become the envy of other hospitals in small town Alberta, which is a very good thing for local residents and the healthcare professionals who work there.

I have been intimately intertwined in the Bonnyville sports scene for some time now and one thing seems certain — Bonnyvillians support their local sports teams.

Driving to Cold Lake the other day, mentally cataloguing the changing colours of the leaves and wailing about the coming winter, it occurred to me that I was approaching the one year anniversary of finally, at the age of 27, getting my driver's licen