Opinion

You win some and you lose some. Okotoks hockey fans were on both sides of that saying last week. The Jr. A Oilers season came to an end when the lost to the Olds Grizzlys on March 12.

In the province of Quebec, traffic tickets are printed in both the official languages English and French. In Alberta, traffic tickets are printed only in English.

Our executive meeting agenda was fairly lengthy. We are delighted to welcome two new directors and a new vice-president to our team.

The 2014 Winter Olympics have been fantastic as they always seem to be. Sochi Russia has done an amazing job and that part of Russia looks beautiful. We still have a great chance for some medals in both men and womens curling and hockey.

In the 2010 Olympics held in Vancouver we won the most Gold medals at 14 and came in third for the medal count. U.S. had 37, Germany 30, then Canada at 26 and Norway at 23. Early on Tuesday we already had 9 medals and 4 are gold.

The lighting of the torch for the XXII Winter Olympics last week brought back pleasant memories of 1988 when Calgary hosted the event.

I was barely six years old when I first started singing along to the songs of Pete Seeger. I remember how taken in I was by the melody of “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” as sung by Peter, Paul and Mary.

According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, Chinese New Year fell on Friday, January 31st. This is the ‘Year of the Horse’. Sounds strong and determined doesn’t it? If it keeps snowing on and off until May we will need a horse to get around.

I didn’t look my best when I showed up at the Western Wheel office on my first day as interim editor.

Last week the Alberta Junior womens team from Edmonton won the Canadians and will move on to the World’s in Switzerland. The Junior mens were not quite as fortunate but did have a great run. The mens team consisted of skip Carter Lautner, third.