Massassauga Road resident shares her passion for dogs with those who cannot see Lori Silverthorne is allergic to dogs— has been since she was 12 years old. But even as a girl she worried about what her aversion to dogs might mean. “I loved animals but I couldn’t have them,” said Lori. “I thought it [...]
Talented teens from around the world perform and learn at Port Milford. Eleanor Wieser (right) glances up as she practices her violin outside at Music at Port Milford music camp before she and fellow students Maude Rozee (left) and Hannah Fields (centre) perform on the deck. Tweet
Cost certainty, ice rates and advertising rights the key issues The ice plant at the Wellington and District Community Centre will spin back to life next week. By then just two weeks will remain until the opening of the Wellington Dukes training camp. On Tuesday night Council at last approved the contract but not before [...]
The Canadian Professional Golfers’ Association is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. George Cumming was a popular pro and teacher at the Toronto Golf Club, and he was elected as the first president of the organization. In 1988, Lou Garrison won the CPGA Seniors’ Championship in London, Ontario. That title was certainly the highlight of [...]
The land of tango is inherently passionate about wine. Argentina, colonized by the Spanish in the early 1500s, followed the well-worn path of establishing vineyards to sustain the local demand and supply of sacramental wine for the Catholic missionaries. In 1557, the Jesuits established vineyards in Santiago by planting mission grapes imported from Chile. This [...]
Last week a young friend asked me the epic, “What’s this world coming to” question. How the H E double bench dips would I know if the world is coming to anything or anywhere. But he was concerned and, from the look on his face, he wanted an answer. At the time we just happened [...]
Small-scale businesses and home-based businesses are the heartblood of the County. Very few of us have union jobs, and very few of us work for large corporations. Only a handful of people have government jobs here – municipal, provincial or federal – and enjoy any kind of job security, any expectation of pay increases in [...]
My little personal soap opera about my ‘deep brain stimulation’ surgery is turning into a threepart miniseries. Episode one saw me about to enter hospital worried whether I would be assigned a humour therapist who told bad jokes. Episode two had me recollecting the low point of my surgery as the frantic search for an [...]
The other day I went for a walk and saw five plays, in the span of an hour. It was a luxurious indulgence that felt like playing hooky in the middle of the day. And yet it took no more time than the average lunch hour. The experience was Sounding Ground, an innovative series produced [...]
Fran Renoy called this week to say that Scott Rowand had passed away. Readers will remember Scott Rowand as the consultant hired by then-Health Minister George Smitherman to paper over Quinte Health Care’s plans (at the time) to gut the hospitals in Picton and Trenton in order to shore up resources at Belleville General Hospital. [...]