Category: Of Interest

Thanks to all that sent notes and called. Someone has stepped up and taken Ema in, saving her at the 11th hour. Have a look at the April Road discussion forum thread for more details HERE.

Our neighbour recently lost his sister and was left with Ema, a cute Jack Russell Terrier. Due to lifestyle contraints our neighbour can't keep Ema and has tried to find a good home with no luck. Ema is elderly and a bit deaf but still full of life and deserves a chance to make someone else happy. She will be euthanized today, July 29 at 3:30pm unless someone comes forward and offers their home to her so she can live her full life and come to an end naturally. My wife and I would take her but our dog wouldn't be terribly cooperative and we think Ema deserves to live out her life rather than dying because no one will take care of her. If you or someone you know…

Denny's Restaurants is being sued by a New Jersey resident and a nonprofit consumer group claiming that many of the chain's meals contain more than a day's worth of sodium. One of the main meals in questions is the 'Meat Lover's Scramble' which contains cheese, eggs, bacon, diced ham and sausage, and comes with more meat on the side as well as hash browns and pancakes. I may not be a builder of rockets or a surgeon of brains but my guess would be that this meal probably contains a lot of salt. In fact, it does. It contains 5,690 milligrams of sodium — the equivalent of nearly three days' advised maximum salt intake. Wouldn't the average consumer know that a meal that contains as much processed meat, cheese and…

A word of warning. If you're walking your dog and he comes across a small, buzzing lump about the size of a muffin sitting amongst the brush along your favourite path, you may want to avoid it. My dog Benjamin stumbled across the small, almost invisible nest during our morning walk. It was sitting on the ground and could easily be stepped on if a person or dog wandered slightly off the path. The wasps were very a bit annoyed. Actually they were very annoyed and gave both of us a few stings before we bolted down the path to safety with one wasp hanging on to Benjamin's rear section until I swiped it off. Have a look at the photos I took by clicking on the gallery thumbnail below…