If you were given $1,000 to distribute over a one year period to charities, organizations or to assist someone in an endeavor, would your giving be any different than how Fort Saskatchewan’s city councillors chose to spend their individual promotional funds allotted to each of them by the City? Do keep in mind the...
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From Friday’s Edition of OEP It all began around 11:45pm on Monday evening, when OEP’s Sr. Editor received a Facebook message that the chair of the Fort Saskatchewan Public Library Board, Dallas Kristiansen, wanted to speak to him via telephone. Kristiansen’s message asked for “ten minutes… five if you don’t interrupt me.” The request...
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Airsoft is a modern shooting sport, however in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Quebec, the minimum age to purchase an airsoft gun is 18. Although there are age restrictions on purchasing airsoft guns in the aforementioned provinces, authorities in other provinces, and more recently in Fort Saskatchewan with the arrest of...
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The recently presented request to Council on behalf of Elk Island Public Schools and Elk Island Catholic Schools to have an RCMP officer, also known as School Resource Officer (SRO), in our junior and senior schools is a request that hopefully will be of sincere interest to the community. I have been able to...
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Has the time come for some Fort Saskatchewan junior and senior high schools to have an RCMP presence, also known as a School Resource Officer (SRO)? According to the Edmonton Police Service website, it was in 1979 that the Edmonton Police Service first partnered with the Edmonton Public and Catholic school systems to bring...
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Some call it armchair politics… a debate that ordinary people have when discussing political issues (hopefully in a lighthearted manner), and usually more often than it is cared to admit… not fully informed on the political topic of discussion. But hey, we are apparently entitled to our political voice, are we not? But, I...
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I am sure there are many, including myself, who did not have knowledge of what transpired to thousands of unwed mothers and their children in Australia from the 1940s through to the 1970s. On Thursday, Australian prime minister Julia Gillard delivered what The Guardian described as a “historic” national apology. In Parliament, Gillard acknowledged...
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For a while, it looked like an early Spring, but this week the weather is much colder, seemingly revealing that Spring is not here yet… at least not for most of us. But for one fellow and his wife, their apartment suite seemingly has not lost all aspects of Spring nor Summer. As the...
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When I was a kid living in Kamloops, BC, the bus that stopped just a few feet from our front yard was a necessity for my mother. Be assured, bus service was appreciated by others, too. If I recall correctly, the bus fare at that time was twenty-five cents each way. Of course, the...
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Are you an Armchair Mayor? I write this week’s “Issue” about how I view the growth of Fort Saskatchewan . Since I officially moved here in 2007, I have seen the Fort grow in many aspects. It has been exciting on some levels, while disappointing on others. Growth brings new businesses and opportunities, but...
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