Dear Editor,

Last weekend was Bonnie’s birthday, earlier in the week I asked her what she would like to do. She replied that she would like to go to the Schuler area, the birthplace of her mother to try to locate the homestead. Schuler is NE of Medicine Hat in a very dry area. When Bonnie’s grandparents immigrated from Crimea, Russia it would not have been considered the most desirable farmland but it was available and I assume attainable Today the surviving farms are few and far bet

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Dear Editor,

The Canadian taxpayer is once again being asked to pay for expenses incurred by the search and rescue operations of the ill-fated Titan. It is now common knowledge that the men aboard the Titan were very wealthy. Should not the estates of these men be made to bear some financial responsibility, for the huge cost of a search that proved futile?

One Canadian ship used in the search and rescue operation cost $2 million. This money comes directly out of the public purse. When we are alr

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Dear Editor,

We, Robertson Manor Seniors, could hardly believe our eyes. Apparently, someone did not get the memo, as there, on both sides of the street, just after the Golden Hills Lodge were banners proclaiming that the Lodge was the end of the parade route! Some of us (Rebels) wondered if we should move the banners down, or march in protest to a meeting of the Town Council. However, we thought better of it.

We want to give kudos to those in the parade, who disregarding the banners, made a poi

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Dear Editor,

Writing this July 1 after returning from the Carbon Legion breakfast where everything was prepared by volunteers and you paid by donation. As usual in Carbon when food prep and work is involved Nancy was in the kitchen. I then read the Calgary Herald and National Post online and walked around Anderson Park and am now sitting in front of our condo observing others enjoying the park. I am in the latter stages of life which I assume causes more reflection, as such sitting here reflecti

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