Is Sandbanks Provincial Park hurting the County’s image? Sandbanks is a popular place, and one of the County’s biggest tourism draws. That should be a good thing, but it seems to be going the wrong way. “I find it to be quite dirty and not really very pleasant to go,” said Robyn Cakebread, owner of [...]
Military branches regain ‘royal’ designation What’s in a word? If the word is “royal”—quite a lot actually. Last week Defence Minister Peter Mackay quietly announced that three branches of Canada’s military will restore their historic names and the word royal will once again become part of the official designation for Canada’s air force and navy. [...]
Some people spend their vacations at spa retreats, fasting and doing yoga. Not us. For better or worse, “holidays” and “overindulgence” go hand in hand. We’ve just returned from summer cottage visits with family, where we were fed and fattened like Hansel and Gretel. The need to feed seems to be a common affliction among [...]
What is the purpose of memory? Clearly on an evolutionary or selfpreservation basis our memories remind us what food to eat, they help us avoid the things that would like to eat us and aid us to form social connections that help ensure others see us as helpful associates rather than another protein source. But [...]
Yet Dukes emerge with pair of wins in pre-season action Just two games into the pre-season and controversy is already defining the rivalry between the Wellington Dukes and the Kingston Voyageurs. Never mind that the Kingston coaches couldn’t corral wild man Joey Couture, whose antics caused his team to play shorthanded an average of six [...]
They are about ready to kick off the regular football season south of the border. That’s where they need four downs to move the yardsticks. As you have read here, for several weeks, we have been playing the Canadian game in the fine summer weather. The Canadian Football League teams will have played almost half [...]
During the 1860s, wine exports to England peaked as the French and English governments sorted their differences and the preferential tariffs accorded to South African wines were no longer an issue. By the mid 1860s, the Phylloxeria blight arrived on the shores of South Africa, collapsing the industry for the better part of two decades. [...]
A Sunday morning and I walk the south bank of the Murray Canal. Moss of verdant green covers the slope to the water; from a bordering forest a mourning dove answers the call of a distant freight train. The abandoned rail swing bridge drifts in a mist that carries through the passage while the rustle [...]
Just for the record, I’m not “on board” for any kind of industrial-sized wind turbines. Not now. Not ever. Not anywhere and most especially, not here in the County. I am, as regards IWTs, a full-on NIMBY and have as many questions about the “green and clean” of IWTs. And, also for the record, I [...]
Baseball showdown Eleven of the best teams in the region competed in the Pee Wee Eastern Ontario Baseball finals in Wellington over the weekend. Above, Braydon Peters of the Quinte Royals puts some mustard on the pitch. Tweet