Art McLean passed away in May, 2013  in his Sunderland home. He had a long, happy career at the Valley Advocate and in later life he had difficulty getting around after a broken leg hobbled him and kept him from his beloved walks in the woods. He was 66 years […]

I decided to take up running after my gym membership expired and I got tired of having to drive to Greenfield every day just to get a work-out.  I decided that if I did a short burst, say, 25-30 minutes of running every day it would accomplish much the same […]

This is an exciting year for tourism in Winnipeg, with two big attractions opening in the summer and fall that will bring thousands more visitors to the city.  Besides the tremendous Canadian Human Rights Museum, the new Journey to Churchill at the Assiniboine Park Zoo is going to excite and […]

Don Finkbeiner has a favorite place to take his tour guide clients when they visit Winnipeg.  He showed me the Exchange district, the city’s bustling arts and entertainment area, as well as St Boniface, the French-speaking community across the Assiniboine River. He talked of the incredible wealth that came to […]

Want to put a relatively small city on the map forever? Build a $351 million state-of-the-art interactive museum about human rights, and make the building so spectacular that it looks like nothing ever built before. That’s what’s happening in Winnipeg and the big party happens this September. I got a […]

Flying in February 2014 is a tough business, not for the faint of heart. I set out to Bradley hoping to catch an 11:25 am flight to Minneapolis, then another flight to Winnipeg Manitoba. But as the appointed hour grew near they began making announcements about a strange vibration in […]