Luck doesn’t even to begin to describe golfer Ted Kemp’s round in 2008 at the Muscatine, Iowa, Municipal Golf Course. A 12-handicapper, he knocked in holes-in-one on two par-3s.
He used a pitching wedge to sink his ...
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Most people never bother to check background when they hear a new or unfamiliar word. In fact, most of us don’t even look for the word in a dictionary. Rather, we use the new term in the way we think we heard it, both in pronunciation...
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Among Canadians, perhaps the most misunderstood holiday of the year is Victoria Day. It is now commonly just referred to as the May long weekend and is a time when Canadians enjoy travelling to the lake or campground for their first signifi...
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Once a year, REALTORS® from across the country converge on Ottawa to meet their MPs on homeownership matters. This year was another well run and organized event by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) which ran from May 11 ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
“The alarm at the arrival of the editors (William Buckingham and William Coldwell from the East) recalls the early Winnipeg story of a prominent citizen going down Main Street with his little son...
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Manitoba REALTORS® are seeking the help of the province to create a registry that would protect home buyers from unknowingly purchasing a house used in the past for drug production.
The Manitoba Real Estate Association (MRE...
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When zebra mussels were first found in North America 25 years ago, it was already too late, since no one at the time really knew the threat posed to the ecosystem by the tiny alien invader. While it is too late to remove the mussels from th...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
It was an inauspicious start to what was to be a new venture in the Red River Settlement, which was later explained at a dinner meeting of the Manitoba Press Club by William Coldwell, who, along with W...
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Twisty Tongue recently told readers that “smog” is a portmanteau word.
Portmanteau word is a term coined by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) in, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). In that book, Humpty Dumpty explains that &...
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It is always nice to be recognized, especially when they want you to share your success with counterparts across the country. This happened last week in Edmonton when Winnipeg’s Housing Opportunity Partnership (HOP) was invited to spe...
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