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Byron Hackett
Verified
Managing Editor, Red Deer Advocate
Red Deer
Beats
Wine tasting, Drag Racing, Dog Shows
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By Byron Hackett Verified| Red Deer Advocate Verified I was about 7 years old when I had my tonsils removed. I still remember it like it was yesterday, struggling and crying through 12 shots of medicine that was disgusting and hurt my throat to swallow. It was the promise of a popsicle that got me through that day. I was just a kid and there are plenty of people in hospitals who have worse days than I did, but that sticks in my mind all these years later. And all these years later, popsicles are at the centre of a government controversy.
By Byron Hackett Verified| Red Deer Advocate Verified The words were on the page. All 900 or so of them, ready for you to read in Saturday's Red Deer Advocate. And then tragedy struck – a first-world, extremely not serious problem that most people probably won't care about, but can likely can relate to. In an instant, the words were gone. The program I was using to type the column, a Pulitzer prize-winning column, I'm sure, crashed. And the column was gone.
By Byron Hackett Verified| Red Deer Advocate Verified I was about 7 years old when I had my tonsils removed. I still remember it like it was yesterday, struggling and crying through 12 shots of medicine that was disgusting and hurt my throat to swallow. It was the promise of a popsicle that got me through that day. I was just a kid and there are plenty of people in hospitals who have worse days than I did, but that sticks in my mind all these years later. And all these years later, popsicles are at the centre of a government controversy.
Company Info
Red Deer Advocate
Local news, weather, obituaries and classifieds for Red Deer, AB, Canada
Red Deer, Canada
+1 403-314-4337
Founded: 1901