Opinion

BY MARY DAURIO Special to the VOICE Growing up on our farm it is unusual to travel any distance. The mailbox is our window to the world, yielding correspondence till a mother robin takes up residence.

1949 essay rings truer than ever BY SHIRLEY LAZARETH Special to the VOICE In 1949, as graduating students in Grade 13, we were asked to write an essay on Canadian Citizenship.

By JIM PITT Special to the Voice We here in Niagara are blessed with four levels of government taxing us for various services.

BY SAMUEL PICCOLO Special to the VOICE Clarice Jacobs died last week. That in itself isn’t surprising: she had just turned 87 years old and lived longer than a woman born in 1930 might have been expected to.

BY JIM PITT Special to The Voice Developers Delight: A clever commercial real estate agent has capitalized on the Town’s generosity with an ad for 7 Hwy. 20 East.

His journey coming to an end, our man in Mexico has his patience tested BY SAMUEL PICCOLO Special to the VOICE In Hell there is a certain icy area behind velvet ropes kept on reserve for people who are rude to service workers.

Endurance by observation, minus seeing BY SAMUEL PICCOLO Special to the VOICE Many years from now, when I face the firing squad or the bumper of a self-driving bus or the cancer or however it is I am fated to meet my end, I will remember the distant

By JIM PITT SPECIAL TO THE VOICE A financial company with a vested interest in seniors' debt has published a study with some scary numbers. It begins, encouragingly, by stating that 9 out of 10 Canadians over 65 want to stay in their homes.

A new graduate recalls order and chaos at Brock BY SAMUEL PICCOLO Special to the VOICE In my first year at Brock University, I had a terrible timetable. This was entirely my fault.

By JIM PITT SPECIAL TO THE VOICE Our Mayor is a forward-thinker.