Letter to the editor

Several months ago, our family was rocked by the sudden loss of Colin Budd, a proud father and community-minded man.

In the days and months that followed, we’ve taken great comfort in the outpour of support and love from our family and friends, as well as this community.

Thank you to Synergy Credit Union, Federated Co-opera - tives Limited and Lakeland College for your support, as well as the Meridian Source and McCaw Funeral Home.

Our thanks to 106.1 The Goat and all of the local organizations who support their Christmas Wish campaign – we’re grateful to have been part of it. Thank you to the Home Depot team as well for their kindness.

We could fill a page or more in this newspaper thanking each person who has and continues to share their support with us.

My heartfelt thanks to everyone, near and far. We’re truly overwhelmed and ever so grateful for your incredible support, generosity, hugs, kind words and love. It’s a testament to the kind of man Colin was and will forever be remembered as.

- Katie Ryan, Lloydminster, Sask.

Leeway from Lloyd: YouTube beats the boob tube

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Since there is not much on mainstream TV to interest me these days, I have found myself obsessed lately with watching oneliner standup comedians, gravel bike videos and wingsuit flyers on YouTube.

The video quality is great on a lot of these shows with the adrenaline kicks coming in waves from wingsuit daredevils jumping off gut-wrenching mountain peaks all around the world.

The goal seems to be to fly as close to something physical like a rock face as possible without killing yourself. I go along for the free roller coaster ride.

Sadly, some of these videos end with a memorial to one of the featured flyers who clipped a wing or their chute didn’t open!

I started asking myself if there was a bunny hill out there somewhere for wingsuit wannabees, and the answer is no, but in the U.S., for example, you need to have at least 100 parachute jumps before step two, and that costs bucks.

I cancelled plans to book 100 sky jumps and stay at ground zero in my living room. Hats off to these folks. They might have more guts than brains, however.

Gravel bikes and gravel races have burst out of the gate like the best thing since sliced bread. Suddenly everyone wants to get off the highway and ride some of the thousands of scenic gravel roads over hill and dale.

The best races are when it rains and everyone is covered in mud. Love it. There is