When it comes to winter, we do it right. The great efforts of the residents of Happy Valley-Goose Bay are the reason the town won the award for the WinterLights Celebrations, says Ken Anthony, director of Tourism, Culture and Recreation for the town. HV-GB won in the 1 to 10,000-population category beating the three competing communities of City of Armstrong, British Columbia, District of Chetwynd, British Columbia, City of Dauphin, Manitoba. Mayor Leo Abbass said the award is recognition of all the hard work done by everyone over the past year. "Work on next years celebrations has already begun and next year will be bigger and better," Mayor Abbass said. WinterLights judges Lisa Redpath and Gerry Teahen, described the community as leaders in the Canadian winter experience. The town offers a unique blend of first class and world-class traditional and cultural indoor and outdoor events for every enthusiast.

Chicago Auto Show blog: A few, final thoughts

The "Si" in Honda Civic Si must stand for "steal it" based on the number of parts missing from the red coupe at McCormick Place. By Friday, the shift knob, shifter boot, cupholder cover and the ends of both steering-column stalks were gone. Wonder whether the billet-style pedals made it through the weekend? When a couple who appeared to be seriously car shopping were inspecting a Dodge Journey, the woman noticed that it had a third row of seats. "Great," said the man. "Your mother can sit back there." The Chicago Automobile Trade Association, the dealers' group that sponsors the show, had a wonderful exhibit commemorating this as the 100th show, but many of the 1.2 million or so visitors may have missed it. It was in the back of the North Hall, tucked behind the General Motors fleet and commercial display.

Rise of the Ron Paul Republicans

Along comes government, which prints another $10 bill. It looks just like yours and spends just like yours. The only difference is that government did nothing to create its $10. Remember, you had to work for yours. At first, both $10 bills buy the same amount of goods. But after awhile, merchants notice there is more money "out there" and with it, more demand for their products. So they raise their prices. Suddenly, your $10 is worth $5 less than it was before. It is not the products and services which have become worth more; the currency is worth less than it was before. Some economists say that inflation is a normal part of a healthy economy. This is false. It only exists when a monetary system has no sound base. We are also told that the boom and bust cycle is a normal part of all economic activity.

Understrength Hornets crash out of Cup

THERE will be no repeat of last season's run to The FA Cup Semi-Finals for Watford after Aidy Boothroyd's decision to field a weakened team backfired as Wolves progressed into round five with an easy 4-1 victory at Vicarage Road this afternoon (Saturday).

However, any hopes of what looked to be an unlikely comeback anyway were killed off in the last minute when Keogh netted his second to make it just one win, and six losses, for the Hornets in their last ten outings at Vicarage Road.

Doing Good: Teacher's hope is to get hearts to homebound kindergartner

From the start, 6-year-old Carolyn Hastings had the heart of her Seymour Primary School kindergarten teacher, Elisha Brown.