Mark Macarthur is having a good year, his 3.14 batting average far and away a career best. The team had worried that his switch to short stop from centre field wouldn't fly, but Macarthur has more than risen to theoccasion, leading the team in double plays and stolen bases.

Andrew Wedderburn is damned if he's going to let anybody else pan for gold upstream from his claim. He didn't come this far above the goddamn artic circle just to have every guy with a beard and a fur hat sit down up the river and make off with his guaranteed mineral rights.So don't come round and knock on the shed cause he ain't interested.

Joel Nye impressed everyone at the Milwaukee Inventors Convention this year with his automatic pancake flipper, which took the coveted blue ribbon for Appliance Innovation. Will this put to rest the copyright controversy which had dogged his previous years entry, the Toast Monogrammer? Only time will tell. All I know is this three hundred dollar cheque puts me one step closer to my dream of opening a liquor store in Sicamous, said the evasive inventor told reporters.

Aaron Smelski has no plans to run again for city council this year. The people of Calgary deserve whatever civic government they get. They're not going to have me to blame everything on anymore. I stand firm on my record; after everybody else had given up on getting the storm drainage in this city into the proper shape, I would not let the issue go. If the Department of Public Works and the unions won't play ball, it won't be my fault when half the city gets washed into Saskatchewan.