Diane & Gerry are both much busier with their business lately; they are expanding and renovating. Gerry has also chosen to give up farming. He has rented the rest of his land to Bill & Rick MacKenzie.
Frank and his science partner, Ryan Johnson, took first place in the Intermediate Life Sciences at the Carlton Trail Regional Science Fair. They also took 2nd overall in the Special Achievement Category. This has earned them an all expenses paid week long trip to Timmins, Ont. in May for further competition.
Niki took part in a music festival in Earl Grey in April. She was invited to the final concert in the festival and won a silver medallion. She was also invited to Regina to another festival in May. The piano certainly appears to be right for her.
Axel has been getting to know his motorcycle again now that winter is over. He celebrated his March 15th birthday by going to Zermatt, Switzerland with his parents and a friend, Christian, to do some skiing. Then it was off to California again on business.
Since then he has been very busy working to
Michele & Steve Millett have a new e-mail address:
mill-bun@telusplanet.net
Number of times Jo-Anne has seen the movie "Titanic" - 5, and counting.
Okay, here I have a column and a half to go and I have nothing to say - really! I have plumb run out of words. In cases like this I shall simply use someone else's words. I keep a couple of books that I write in. I write all the little phrases or bits of poetry that mean something to me. It's great to thumb through them from time to time. Here is a sampling. Maybe it will mean something to you as well. If not, then send me something else I can use when the need arises!
Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
- Cynthia Heimel
- Elizabeth Hardwick
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.- Barbara Tuckman
I believe reading to be much more satisfying than that other consuming pastime of our epoch, watching television. Quite apart from considerations of substance, the latter is a passive act in which one simply takes in the pictures and sounds that are given, whereas reading is a creative act, in which one has to make in one's own mind the pictures that are suggested by the writer's words.- John Hersey
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.- Francis Bacon
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.- Malcolm Forbes
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