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.

Good Old Celery

Good Old Celery.  Just one more reason to get outside this spring and get a patch of ground worked up for your new veggie garden.  You deserve it.   Also look for my new gardening book coming out around May of this year.

The reason celery is so low in calories is because it is so high in water content. Fresh, light green celery with glossy ribs is the best for eating. Celery is truly a healthy treat; all parts of the plant are edible and one cup contains only about twenty calories. There is no waste. It’s a great food and has a number of known health benefits. Here is a couple.

Celery can provide a sense of calmness. It can also help lower blood pressure. People with gout should be fans of celery because it lowers uric acid. So there you go and oh, my wife dries the leaves every year and uses them in soups through out the winter months.  Sure brings the soup alive with taste.  Talk Soon

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Weather Warnings Port Loring

North Bay – Powassan – Mattawa
8:55 AM EST Friday 27 February 2009
Blowing snow warning for
North Bay – Powassan – Mattawa & Port Loring continued

Extensive blowing snow today.

A low pressure system currently located east of Georgian Bay tracks north eastward this morning and into Québec this afternoon. Cold air will continue to flood into the regions from the north.

Additional snowfall amounts of 5 to 10 centimetres are expected along a line extending from Killarney to Kirkland Lake this morning and end later this morning.

Strong northerly winds gusting to 60 to 70 km/h will give extensive blowing snow. Bitterly cold temperatures combined with the snow and the wind will produce low visibilities. Wind chill values will be in the minus 30 to 35 range today.

Conditions will begin to improve near Lake Superior later this morning with the improvement spreading eastward to reach areas near the Québec border in the evening.

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Enjoy That Cup Of Coffee

Now in reading these findings my suggestion is to drink coffee in moderation like maybe one to two cups a day.  That’s what I do and actually two is all I really want.  Any more than that makes me feel nauseous.  But I do enjoy a cup around two each day.

It’s a pleasant surprise when something questionable turns out to be full of health benefits. First chocolate was found to prevent heart disease. Then red wine was shown to increase overall longevity. Now the spotlight is on coffee. Newly released studies reveal that coffee drinking lowers risk of stroke, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia. It even improves social skills and depressive symptoms. Other recent research has shown that drinking coffee reduces the risk of diabetes.

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WINTER STORM WARNING: North Bay – West Nipissing Issued at 3:46 PM EST THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2009

HEAVY SNOW TONIGHT. SNOW TAPERING OFF FRIDAY WITH EXTENSIVE BLOWING SNOW AND VERY COLD TEMPERATURES GIVING NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS. THIS IS A WARNING THAT DANGEROUS WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE IMMINENT OR OCCURRING IN THESE REGIONS. MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS..LISTEN FOR UPDATED STATEMENTS.

AN INTENSE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM FROM KANSAS WILL PASS JUST SOUTH OF THE REGIONS EARLY FRIDAY BRINGING A MAJOR STORM WITH AND BLOWING SNOW TO THE REGIONS. SNOW WILL DEVELOP OVER ALL REGIONS THIS EVENING. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF TO 20 TO 30 CENTIMETRES ARE EXPECTED OVER SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF NORTHERN ONTARIO INCLUDING THE NICKEL BELT. FURTHER NORTHWEST SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WILL TAPER OFF TO ABOUT 10 CENTIMETRES. STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS GUSTING TO 60 TO 70 KM/H WILL DEVELOP EARLY FRIDAY GIVING EXTENSIVE BLOWING SNOW. BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH THE SNOW AND THE WIND WILL PRODUCE NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AT TIMES. CONDITIONS WILL BEGIN TO IMPROVE NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR NEAR NOON FRIDAY WITH THE IMPROVEMENT SPREADING EASTWARD TO REACH AREAS NEAR THE QUEBEC BORDER IN THE EVENING.

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Goverment Spending Not The Way

You know folks today sure has got their thinking sure messed up.  There is no way one can get an economy back in track by going deeper in debt. The way it has to be done is get out of debt.  If the money isn’t there then one has to do without.  This article is what is happening in the U.S.A and also here in this country.  Amazing isn’t it, they, The Powers That Be, has the Gall to tell us that we need to get out of debt, cut our spending on things we don’t need and so on, and so on, and so on.  But yet what do they do. My Opinion Only

U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a monster $3.55-trillion (U.S.) budget today that includes sweeping health-care proposals, slaps the rich with new taxes and plunges America even deeper into debt.

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