Old-time dance fever sweeping across southern Manitoba

Bob Williamson has sparked a revival of dances such as the foxtrot and polka in southern Manitoba


It began with an impromptu lesson for a couple of students, but an old-time dance craze has been started by shops teacher Bob Williamson — and it’s spreading across southern Manitoba. Williamson, who came out of retirement to teach at Glenboro School, surprised two students hanging around the shop door by asking, “Why don’t you

The Jacksons

They tell me that in Hawaii the temperature varies about 7° throughout the course of the year, and they say at the South Pole, while the temperature varies more than that, it nevertheless always stays below the freezing point. In other words there are places on earth that have no seasons, or more accurately, they


Food-Ware Fashion Expands Into Vegetables

mumbai/reuters/sta ff/ Indian animal rights activists asked pop star Lady Gaga to pose in a lettuce dress and embrace vegetarianism during a recent visit to India to be part of the star-studded unveiling of the country s first Formula 1 race. Lady Gaga, who famously wore a meat dress at the 2010 MTV Video Music

Remembering Grandma’s Pump Organ

Some sounds ring forever in one’s ear and so it was with a favourite childhood instrument – my grandmother’s pump organ. Like most pump organs of its time, my grandparents probably purchased it from W. Gundy who opened his music business in Winnipeg in 1887. Gundy went into partnership with his brother to create the

Glen Nicoll – for Apr. 2, 2009

If the recession-affected consumer is looking at the specials in the meat cooler, they had the choice of smoked pork shoulder for $1, ground beef for $1.99, pork loin chops for $2.97 and outside round roast for $2.97. T-bones and chicken breasts were side by side, each at $6.99. The pork business has been improving.