All posts by George Walters

George Walters is a Canadian columnist and author with more than forty years of writing experience. For over twenty years he has written a weekly column for Postmedia Network — Canada's largest newspaper chain — never missing a single week, publishing fifty-two stories a year. Combined with his work in Reader's Digest Community Voices, World News, Country Living, The Country Register, and farm and rural lifestyle magazines across Canada, he has published well over two thousand stories drawn from everyday life. He writes about farm work, fishing, old trucks, and the kind of people you only find in small towns — but just as likely he'll hand a voice to a weathered telephone pole, or turn his eye on something happening in the world today and tell you exactly what he thinks about it. No subject is off limits. If there's a story in it, George will find it. He has been called a philosopher of everyday life, a description that came up more than once during his television appearances over the years — and it's not hard to see why. His writing has a way of making the ordinary feel worth sitting with. He is the author of eleven books, including yearly short story collections and the Clay Moretti Files mystery series. Clay is a fifty-year-old private investigator who drives a 1967 Ford Galaxie, smokes cigars, and operates by a code the modern world gave up on a long time ago. The cases are present day. The man handling them is not. All titles are available in paperback and eBook on Amazon. Together, George and his wife Ruth have also created Elmer Finds His Way, the first in what he hopes will be a long series of children's books. Ruth did all the illustrations, as she has for every one of George's books — and beyond that she designed and painted the covers as well. Her work is woven into every page of everything he has published. A few words from readers: "I pulled up a kitchen chair and read your story three times." "You have a way of making a person homesick for a place they haven't been to." "Thank you for writing things that make old people and kids feel the same way at the same time." All my titles are available in paperback and eBook on Amazon.ca here.

More Regarding Good Old Garlic

Garlic is probably nature’s most potent food. It is one of the reasons people who eat the Mediterranean diet live such long healthy lives. Garlic is also a powerful performer in the research lab. Several new studies have documented its ability to promote heart and cardiovascular health, prevent and treat cancer, and create a healthy lipid profile. Others have shown garlic prevents platelet aggregation and reduces high blood pressure. Garlic has strong anti-inflammatory properties. One of the most interesting of the recent findings is that garlic increases the overall antioxidant levels of the body.

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How do I Keep Up Morale In a Down Market and Hard Times?

Simple. You are in charge of your life and your feelings.  If you get hurt you are the one that has allowed it to happen to you.  Way to fix it.  Just stop taking things so serious.  All the worrying in the world won’t help solve the problem. Old sayig is. When things get tough the tough get going.  Don’t believe everything you hear as the media is just making you think things that are not really happening.  Send out possitive vibes and good things will happen. It’s not all that bad out there. I got faith in ya.  My opinion only

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Toyota, GM and Chrysler Wants $12B plan Now and Probably More.

You know these car companies keep telling us they need all this money to stay alive.  There is a simple way of fixing this problem without any money from us hard working tax payers.  Not sure if you heard me right.  I said tax payers as we the people are the goverment and it’s our money that is being handed out to these folks.  Should never have  happened.  If they want to stay afloat the way to do it is each person that works for them should take about a five dollar an hour pay cut.   Management a bit more.   Will they do this?  Not on your life, so I figure if they don’t want to help the company they work for why should us hard working tax payers do anything to help them.  Simple as that. My Opinion Only

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WIND WARNING & Snow Possible: North Bay – West Nipissing, Port Loring

STRONG WINDS EARLY WEDNESDAY ALONG COLD FRONT. THIS IS A WARNING THAT DAMAGING WINDS ARE IMMINENT OR OCCURRING IN THESE REGIONS. MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS..LISTEN FOR UPDATED STATEMENTS.

AN INTENSE COLORADO LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE REGIONS TONIGHT. IN GENERAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 25 TO 40 CENTIMETRES ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM ESPECIALLY ALONG A SWATH EXTENDING FROM NORTHWESTERN SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR TO KAPUSKASING. EXTENSIVE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW ARE ALSO FORECAST GIVING NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AT TIMES. HEAVY SNOWFALL WILL START TAPERING OFF FROM THE THUNDER BAY ATIKOKAN AND VICINITY REGIONS OVERNIGHT AND FROM THE REST OF THE WARNED REGIONS WEDNESDAY MORNING. STRONG WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEEPENING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BE TRIGGERED BY A FAST MOVING COLD FRONT MOVING FROM WEST TO EAST EARLY WEDNESDAY. ALONG THE FRONT WINDS WILL GUST TO 90 KM/H. A FEW LOCATIONS OVER THE NICKEL BELT AND EAST OF LAKE SUPERIOR WILL GUST NEAR 100 KM/H. NOTE THAT TEMPERATURES WILL DROP BEHIND THE COLD FRONT AND COLD WIND CHILLS ARE EXPECTED.

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Facebook, Beware In My Eyes

Now here is an article that says a lot.  Trouble is I don’t really think folks understand what it really says as more folks are signing up for this Group than ever before. I guess they just don’t care about keeping things in their lives private.  I can understand why maybe some of the real young folks get hooked, as they don’t really know what the consequences are by joining a group like this.  But for older folks I can’t for the life of me see their reasoning.  For me, my life is mine to know not the worlds.  So all that I can say is read this article and beware. My advice stay away.  My opinion only.

You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sub license) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.  Bottom   line is they can pretty well do what every the darn well please with what ever you put on their site.  Also remember this just quiting the group isn’t as easy as one thinks.  Good luck!

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