Don’t know if you have been following the newspaper accounts of the unfortunate death of Raymond Taavel this past week in Halifax or not.  The bare facts of the case are that Taavel tried to break up a fight outside a downtown bar and in the ensuing fight died.  The interesting thing about the story…

I was having a coffee at Tim Horton’s ( I know that’s hard to believe), when I heard a staff member comment on how pleased she was that the “Roll up the Rim” contest was finished for yet another year. Curious, I asked why that was?  She told me it was because some customers would…

Breaking through the mist, the ship's passengers and crew were greeted by a sight that would haunt many of their dreams for years to come. Passenger Luke Hoyt would write in a letter; “In the Providence of God it has come to Emma and myself to be of assistance to our fellow men and women…

Apparently, April 15th is going to be a big deal this year.  There have been television specials, magazine articles printed, books published and movies re-released.  Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments have all hopped on the train, or more appropriately, got on the boat.  Canada Post has released commemorative stamps and the mint has done a…

I have often thought the concept of Easter Monday was kind of strange.  You just know it had to be a blatant quest for a four-day weekend. That someone, somewhere, had a eureka moment and decided that the Monday following Easter Sunday was obviously Easter Monday and as such deserved to be a holiday.  And…

What is with the weather? One day it's beautiful, sunny and warm, the next day it's snowing, cold and miserable.  Didn't Old Man Winter get the memo?  Spring is supposed to be here!  It's hard to believe that just a week ago we had August Temperatures in March.I have discovered in my travels that all…

Who are Gordon C. Gladden and Ethel Thomas, and why does someone want me to pray for them?  Are they sick?  Do they need Jesus? What’s the story?  Last week we received a letter from the US, hand addressed to: Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, 1215 Hammonds Plains Rd. Halifax Regional Municipality Canada.  No postal code and…

Well, it’s that time of year again.  The time of year that Canadians from coast to coast look forward to with wonder and longing.  No not spring, that’s right it’s time for, a drum roll please, r-r-r-roll up the r-r-rim.All over our fair country, Canadians are finishing their coffee and with baited breath rolling up…

Darn, I wish I had of thought of that.  Quebec resident Sylvio Langevin has filed a lawsuit claiming sole ownership of the Earth.  Not to mention all the other planets in our solar system, several of the moons and all of the space that separates them.  Langevin’s explanation was that he wanted to collect planets…

Who would have thought that Eastman Kodak, the company that invented the hand held camera and brought the world the first pictures from the moon could fail?  And yet back in January Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection.  For over a hundred years the name Kodak has been synonymous with photography, so what happened?  In an…