Welcome to our new feature, a format well-known and liked in many other publications, such as ‘Hugs and Slugs’ in the Nelson Star. Please email us: newsroom@castlegarnews.com (or snail mail, address on page A6) with your brief, anonymous, relatively tasteful thanks or spanks.
Spanks to my neighbours for their obsession with lawn mowing, hedge trimming, weed-eating, metal grinding, snow-blowing, wood cutting, ATVing, leaf blowing, motocrossing, snowmobiling… and your parties, too.
Thanks to the nice (likely retired?) gentleman with the large order who cheerfully waved me and several others past him in the No-Frills checkout line the other afternoon. Your thoughtful act was just like a stress antidote.
Thanks to the lady walking her schnauzer at Twin Rivers Park on June 27, for noticing my smartphone tumble as I grabbed my jacket. How much less simple my life would be without you.
Spanks to the talkative server at the restaurant. Don’t you know they call it ‘fast food’ for a reason? I just hope your supervisor gets around to stipulating that cellphones be checked in the staff room at the start of shifts. Some of us gotta eat!
Thanks to the City of Castlegar and The Old Theatre for the free Saturday night concert. It was great!
Spanks to the tailgaters on every road, everywhere, almost all the time.
Spanks to parents/guardians who don’t put hats and other sun-blocking clothes on their babies and tots.
Thanks to volunteers. I know they get their own week, and everything, but they earn our respect and gratitude every day of the year.
Thanks to the artists who make our town interesting, especially the sand sculptors going at it by the Pioneer Arena, thanks for being polite and patient, and listening to my questions.
