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- jim Young “I love a parade, the tramping of feet; I love every beat I hear of a drum. I love a parade, when I hear a band, I just want to stand and cheer as they come.” - Harry Richman The better question might be… “Who doesn’t love a parade?” Many parades will see young and old alike line the streets in all kinds of weather waiting in anticipation of the parade to pass them by. Decorated floats, costumes, marching bands, clowns, animals, celebrities, policemen, firemen and more all hold a very special appeal for those who have gathered to watch the parade go by. Cave paintings from about ten thousand years ago suggest the first parades may have been cavemen returning home from a hunt, proudly displaying their prey. By around 3,000 B.C. parades fell into 2 categories - religious processions and military parades.  In more recent times, parades are organized for any number of reasons. Parades may be held for religious events such as Easter and Christmas, patriotic events like Cana...

Santa answers the questions that children ask. Let's Ask Santa as told to jim Young We all know reindeer like to play games because the song tells us Santa's reindeer "never let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games.” If you are a child now or ever were a child I’ll bet you’ve often wondered just what kinds of games reindeer DO play! Maybe you’ve wondered other things about Santa too, such as “Why does Santa have the same wrapping paper as my mom?” And just who HASN’T sometimes wondered how Santa gets into houses that don’t have chimneys? Well now you and your children can get the real answers to these questions from Santa Claus himself. “Let’s Ask Santa” is a collection of questions everyone wants to know about Santa and the North Pole and they are answered by Santa himself as told to author jim Young from Loring, Ontario and writer for the Great North Arrow. You may be surprised to discover that Santa doesn’t rely on magic nearly as much as you might think. Most of t...

 

 

 -  jim Young “America. Where are you now? Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?” - Jerry Edmonton and John Kay  You can argue whether Jan. 6 was an insurrection or an attempted coup led or incited by Donald Trump all you want, but all you have to do is take a look at the preparations being made for the upcoming election to know that something is very, very wrong in the United States today. Drop boxes for mail in ballots are being sabotaged with incendiary devices to destroy ballots. Snipers are being stationed at polling booths. Poll workers are facing harassment and threats of violence. In some areas police radios will be distributed to election workers to enable them to more quickly contact the police in emergency situations.  Bulletproof vests, metal detectors, and surveillance drones are being used to protect election officials - the ones that haven’t already quit in fear of their personal safety. In some instances election officials have received a “bu...