Bob Scammell - Alberta Outdoors
There are not many big brown trout in the Red Deer River tailwater below Dickson Dam, and locating where they hang out is both an art and a pre-requisite to fishing for and maybe catching (and releasing) a few. “Structure” is a key for many anglers: log jams, sweepers, bouldery side channels, etc.
My favorite places are the bouldery water at the base of the steep cliffs people get marooned on or tumble down and have to be rescued by boat or cherry picker, as is happening too often lately around here. I was enjoying The Red Deer Advocate at Happy Hour recently, and was startled by a picture of one of my best top secret fishing holes illustrating a story titled “Man crosses river to save woman.”
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Defying the polls, Clark wins- National affairs by TIM HARPER
For a second time in two years, pollsters got it brutally wrong
British Columbia Liberal Leader Christy Clark pulled off an upset for the history books on the West Coast Tuesday night, confounding every pre-election poll and prediction, retaining power for her centre-right coalition.
Clark entered the 28-day campaign almost 20 points behind New Democrat Adrian Dix, who ran an error-free, but timid, campaign trying to ensure that voters here would feel no fear of switching to a party which had only governed in the province three times before. Yes, British Columbia had surprised, as it has before. Ninety minutes after the polls closed, it was being declared the “West Coast miracle.’’
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Life as I know it by Colleen Crawford
“A toddler will naturally pick up something correctly.” I was told this the other day and ever since, I have observed the toddlers in my daycare. They have more than heavy lifting figured out right.
I take care of a one-and-a-half year old that is the definition of perpetual motion. She sits still for no more than one second at a time.
She has learned to climb onto the couch. The couch is half of her height. She has to lift her leg up to the height of her belly button, hoist her leg onto the couch, then pull herself up with her arms and upper body muscles. She will climb up onto the couch. Sit for one second. Then crawl across the couch. Then sit another millisecond. Then she will get off the couch. There is no limit to the amount of times that she will do this throughout the day. Full Story > |
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Picked Up In Passing by Jamie Nesbitt - Bulletin Editor
Memories of earlier days
My late teens in Brooks in the 1960s were some of the best years of my single life. High school was a great time as were the extra curricular activities on the weekends. We had a great group of school chums and it seemed there was always something going on. Like many others, most evenings were spent driving around with stops for coffee or refreshments at the MR Dairy Bar.
We all had jobs after school and on weekends—after all, gas was $1 a gallon!
I worked for a few years for Joe Nicholas at Pheasant Sales which was the name of the GM dealership which sat on the same site as Community GM. I pumped gas and helped out in the shop when it was quiet. This is where I learned to tear down engines and do minor tune-ups. Of course, nowadays you have to be more of an electronics expert. Full Story > |
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Sports Talk by Bruce Parker
Congratulations to Brooks Bandits head coach and general manager Ryan Papaioannou for being named the Canadian Junior Hockey League coach of the year.
While Papaioannou guided the Bandits to a record setting season, nothing was written in stone that he would be an automatic winner of the award.
The coach is the type of individual who will credit everyone around him for the success of the organization and rightly so but without his leadership, I doubt the team would have accomplished what they did. Full Story > |
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