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When the rain comes

It has been a mystery to me for many years why so many people think that a hot and sunny day is a great day. What in the world is the matter with these people? In the blazing heat without a cloud in the sky you have to squint all day, sweat buckets, withstand...

A tough time for newspapers

By Heino Molls A lot of newspapers are scrambling to be online because they fear that if they don’t do it, somebody else will take their news, put it on the Internet and become a more favoured place to go for updated information. It’s true that general newspaper...

The new prejudice

For many years I have extolled the virtues of this wonderful country we live in. Regardless of who you are, what faith you worship or where you come from; you have the right to shelter. If you have the good fortune to be clever, able bodied and work hard you can even...

Chasing cars

We all make sales goals for ourselves. For 2010 my goal is to sell a car manufacturer or retailer to advertise in REM. We have had car advertisers before. A long time ago a car leasing company did a campaign with us but in recent years we have not had much advertising...

Moving forward

Welcome to the December issue of REM, our last one for 2009, the celebration year of our 20th anniversary of publishing. We made a deliberate decision to not mark this anniversary with balloons and hoopla but rather to work harder and make an even greater effort to be...

New ideas and change

I would like to say thank you to a few folks who responded to the column in REM’s last issue. I had written about the idea of paying Realtors a retainer up front for their professional services along with a negotiated commission. It is good to hear from people who...