Life

Last Thursday evening my wife and I attended our granddaughter’s first Christmas concert. We joined what seemed to be a few hundred parents, siblings, and of course other grandparents in a small multipurpose gym. We arrived early because the seating would be limited and as it turned out, it was standing room only. Who knew?

The Honourable Steven L. Point, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, presented 20 BC Ambulance Service (BCAS) employees with Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Exemplary Service honours during special ceremony at BC’s historic Government House in Victoria the end of last month.

I wish Santa would bring me a little dog for Christmas Day, but he or she’d get spoiled in a hurry.

Now it’s crunch time, and rather than getting shorter, your shopping list is ever expanding. You forgot to pick up hostess gifts, you can’t do without a new roasting pan, and you need to find a little something for your friend’s year-end birthday.

Hopes for a joyful holiday season can put families of problem drinkers on high alert—because they are afraid they won’t get the kind of holiday that they deserve.