Niverville’s Got Thin Ice

By Angelique Forest

In mid-January the Town of Niverville issued a notice warning its residents to stay off the ice formed on the pond located at Hampton Park.

The pond, which is used by residents and locals to skate, is no longer safe due to thin ice caused by water that’s being pumped through to the water treatment plant. This resulted in the ice melting from the bottom up. The Town promises to inform the community when it is safe to venture onto the frozen pond, but currently it is a potential danger.

Welcome to all my readers, I hope that you are all having a great winter. I recently heard some folks complaining that a polar vortex was coming and about how it was going to be so cold and snowy. This may be true and it may come to pass but why complain about something that has not even happened yet, if at all. What does it accomplish by not enjoying this moment while we are having beautifully warm winter weather? Even if the colder weather were to arrive and you had chosen to wait and complain about it at that time... why?

We’ve had an awesome winter where the temperatures have been mild to the point of melting and there have been very little storms to prevent us from dangerous travel, so why complain about a little bit of colder weather now?

Maybe I just have a bit of a different mindset but I do try to look at the less-than-desirable situations as opportunities to grow, problems as challenges to overcome and learn from. This is not a mindset that I’ve been born with, while God may have given it to me in creation, I can attest that my environment and life experiences have more than done their best to squash any such positivity. I do have good news for all my readers, if you do desire to have a more positive outlook in life, there a numerous books and online sites that can help you to take those steps (sometimes very tiny steps) forward. Much like how you’d eat an elephant (one bite at a time) the road to a new mindset is taken by little bits of progress, even when we find ourselves slipping up and making errors we can always go back and keep on working at it. I’m confident that as we work on ourselves we will one day soon look back, nay glance back, and realize that we’ve covered a great distance from where we’d started. Just remember, we will never be perfect and that is okay but we can always strive for a better life and a positive existence that touches those around us in a memorable fashion. Keep working at it, even when the world seems dark and full of despair, keep working at being the light that shines. You never know when the light that you’ve become will be the light that someone is desperately searching for, the light that they are in need of seeing. Even if you never see the results of how your life will touch others, rest assured, your light will and does touch others. Keep shining, I’m proud of you.

Until next time, take care and keep your world spinning.