Connie Sampson

City interferes with socks for alligators

Submitted on May 23, 2013 - 8:43am

Prince Albert city council is looking into using GPS units to locate city employees at all times. They already have the GPS things purchased. Now they have only to convince the unions and put down the severe annoyance, nay shouting loudly and revenge, from every city employee.

Connie Sampson

Spring is sprung

Submitted on March 31, 2013 - 9:41am

This bit of doggerel is in desperate need of revising this year:

spring is sprung – in theory the grass is riz – is it now? I wonder where the birdies is – well south of here i hope – for their sakes the birds is on the wing – of no – poor birdies! I'd always heard – trust me on this – I'm not THAT deaf The wings is on the bird - – correction – the wings ARE on the bird

Connie Sampson

Peanut Butter Banned!

Submitted on March 20, 2013 - 5:43pm

I want to talk here about nutrition. It’s terribly important if you eat.

Connie Sampson

The Net will getcha if you swim like a fish

Submitted on February 22, 2013 - 4:52pm

I need my head read. In the past few months I have fallen for a scam which cost me my pin number and my Hotmail account and ever so much time and bewilderment. I am one of those computer folk who consider being able to turn the thing on and off as a brilliant accomplishment.

Connie Sampson

What is wrong with the West

Submitted on February 11, 2013 - 8:12am

There are two things wrong with the West. There are three actually, but we will get to that.

Husband is Number One problem. He can't see beyond Manitoba, which he secretly rejects as a 'real' Western province. He hates, positively hates, the East.

Connie Sampson

Pass the Char Please

Submitted on December 8, 2012 - 1:43pm

While all the millionaires battle all the billionaires, to increase their assets, no NHL players are playing right? Wrong. Marc Methot, Peter Regin, Chris Phillips and Chris Neil of the Ottawa Senators, Jordin Tootoo of the Detroit Red Wings, Grant Clitsome, Winnipeg Jets, and Jim Sleter of college hockey fame, were on the ice playing some serious hockey and freezing their assets as they did so.

Connie Sampson

Good to Hate?

Submitted on October 10, 2012 - 8:03am

Of course it isn't good to hate. But, is it possible to maintain good in an atmosphere of hatred? Omar Khadr, a convicted 'terrorist', is now home in Canada. He is serving the remainder of his sentence, which was handed down by a Guantanamo military commission tribunal. He is now in Milhaven, one of several federal prisons in the Kingston, Ontario area.

Connie Sampson

Economic Development - WOW!

Submitted on September 13, 2012 - 12:28pm

I can't believe she is 32. Nic Brasseur, from Aachen, Germany, took her grade 11 year at Carlton and lived with us in 1995. Now she teaches at the University of Dusseldorf. Over the years since, she, her family and Husband and I have travelled back and forth between Canada and Germany. This year, Uschi and Manfred, Nic's parents, who had never been to Canada, spent three weeks with us.

Hang in there. I am getting to the point.

Connie Sampson

Be fair to Fairbairn

Submitted on August 29, 2012 - 1:45pm

Joyce Fairbairn, journalist, wearer of many hats for former Prime Minister, and now a senator. She is being seriously mistreated in my opinion.

The lady has been told by a doctor, last February, that she has a form of dementia, commonly known as Alzheimer's Disease. Hold this thought: February to August is five months. Her condition has worsened and currently, she is under 24 hour care for the last 18 months.

Connie Sampson

Cops for Safety

Submitted on August 16, 2012 - 7:14am

Prince Albert Police Chief Dale McFee is currently president of the Canadian Police Association which has a membership of 41,000 police officers across Canada, from the biggest cities to the smallest villages.

One of their programs, one I support, is Cops For Kids. Donations to the program last year helped police find 60 child predators. How many children are safer because of that?