As New Year's Day approaches, I find myself wondering whether I'm stuck in Groundhog Day instead.

(Mayor David Henderson, right, leads an early refugee assistance meeting in September.)

(Brockville Museum curator Natalie Wood, in pink, rollerskates her way through a comic segment of a recent Pink Pills for Pale People presentation. I'll have to apologize to her for reviving this pic, but she'll find it easier to skate if her idea bears fruit...)

(Meghan Plooy, executive director of the DBIA, speaks to city council's planning committee on Tuesday.)

(Carmen Gottfried, right, speaks while his son, Ken, listens.)

(Photo by Darcy Cheek)

(Mayor David Henderson writes ideas on the whiteboard Monday while Rev. Marianne Emig Munro, left, of First Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Kimberly Heath, of Wall Street United Church, listen.)

“You know, I wonder if we, as a city, can somehow sponsor several families... Remember, almost all of us are immigrants of this beautiful, fantastic and colossal country.”

“Its amazing that a simple bakery could mean so much.”

I remember a great many things from the Ice Storm of 1998, but one of my first memories is the morning of Day One, when we gathered in the old newsroom on King Street West.