Claudette Sandecki

Limited funding leaves children vulnerable

Starved ministry funding limits proper care for vulnerable children.

The U.S. election is a weighty topic

I can’t wait for the American presidential election to be over. The lengthy campaign is taking over my life.

Columnist questions the style of tree pruning around hydro lines.

Tree pruning leaves a lot to be desired

We need to plant thinking of how a tree will grow, but do we need trees on northern B.C. roads to be cropped straight up one side?

Columnist questions the style of tree pruning around hydro lines.

Elections or TV, take your pic

You never know what is going to be on television nowadays

Writer complains that breakfast cereal, such as Shredded Wheat, just isn't the same anymore.

Breakfast just isn’t the same

So many of my favourite things have been ruined by improvements. Shredded wheat biscuits breakfast cereal for one.

Writer complains that breakfast cereal, such as Shredded Wheat, just isn't the same anymore.
Is the new curriculum under emphasizing the basic reading, writing and math skills that children need?

What’s in a word? Plenty, it seems

I think little of B.C.’s new education curriculum being trotted out this month with much hope and hoopla.

Is the new curriculum under emphasizing the basic reading, writing and math skills that children need?

Be careful what you say

How much consideration do elected representatives give to what they say at city council meetings, which are broadcast live?

Ryan Lochte's mischief and lies at Rio are questioned by letter writer.

Sponsors vote with their dollars

Olympian Ryan Lochte was punished by sponsors, severing contracts worth $10 million. If only laws were as swift.

Ryan Lochte's mischief and lies at Rio are questioned by letter writer.

Seconds matter with young children

How many little kids have gone missing in British Columbia so far this summer?

MORE people are working in northwestern B.C. this year than last.

Letter: Citizens need to get more involved

The Terrace B.C. senior housing survey and Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine marijuana bylaw raise a number of issues for me...

MORE people are working in northwestern B.C. this year than last.

Claudette has finally tamed her lawn

She considered everything from mowers to goats, sheep and horses to tame her wild lawn, and finally found a solution.

Don’t delay mowing for the bees

Or summer ends up being a lot with an unsightly view, worries about how to deal with it and vegetation impervious to mowers

A developer has plans to build a seniors complex on this land along Graham Ave.

Council rezone of agricultural land a good thing

Developers should be looking to building housing for Terrace's growing population of seniors

A developer has plans to build a seniors complex on this land along Graham Ave.

Keeping secrets is too stressful

Columnist Claudette Sandecki searches for column topics without divulging family secrets

Baking solidifies family ties

Columnist Claudette Sandecki reminisces on a sweet pastime

Where did I put that wrench?

Columnist Claudette Sandecki on the difficulties of getting rid of stuff

We can’t coddle the coders

Columnist Claudette Sandecki ponders the merits of teaching children to code

Kitchen table was HQ for family

Columnist Claudette Sandecki on the importance of dinnertime and family

Call of the wild, Thornhill style

Columnist Claudette Sandecki finds inspiration in an unexpected place.

Hair today and gone tomorrow

Columnist Claudette Sandecki on the merits of learning to thread and cut hair