A garden at rest
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer
Youth program to send Ameliasburgh youth to Africa and the Yukon Kelli Miller is getting set travel to Mozambique and Whitehorse to participate in a program that brings much-needed information on substance abuse…
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Funding wind appeal with smiles and treasures Members of CCSAGE (County Coalition for Safe and Appropriate Green Energy) braved cold winds and rain on Saturday morning for their yard sale fundraiser. Left to…
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POOCH supporters voice objections to cuts to PECMH directly to QHC officials Mary Clare Egberts (centre right) faced down passionate protesters early on Tuesday morning in Wellington, angry over disproportionate cuts to Picton…
May 10 2013 / 1 Comment / Read More »Council butts heads over where to put new fire hall Municipal politics—like all politics, one presumes—often involves spending money…
May 24 2013 / No Comment / Read More »Ameliasburgh teen seeks to learn and lend a hand Kelli Miller wants to help. The bright and attractive 18…
May 24 2013 / No Comment / Read More »Plans unveiled at public meeting next Wednesday Where shall the creek flow? Lane Creek drains farmland northeast of Wellington…
May 24 2013 / No Comment / Read More »Project seeks to take measure of the well-being of the County How are we doing? How is Prince Edward…
May 17 2013 / No Comment / Read More »Ostrander Appeal to hear firsthand what it means to live under the persistent presence of industrial wind turbines Stephana…
May 17 2013 / 19 Comments / Read More »Police services costs set to jump in 2014 Updated on Wednesday May 15, 2013. The print edition of this…
May 15 2013 / No Comment / Read More »Resales up, new homes continue prolonged slide Spring has, at last, arrived. As daffodils and tulips bloom under a…
May 10 2013 / No Comment / Read More »Head support
Rescue unit
Watchful eye
OPP special units
Mill Pond woes
Toasting the Cheese Festival
Pedal power
A walk in the park
Resonance
Gourmet picnic fare
Girls ROCK-IT
Wine and spirits
POOCH representatives
Queen’s Park
Maybe I’m hard of thinking but I never really understood the sensibility of carbon offsets and the purchase of carbon credits. I, like most of you, understand the little form a person fills out online, at the completion of which the carbon footprint calculator spits out a dollar figure. No problem with little online calculators.…
May 24 2013 / No Comment / Read More »In springtime we witness the rhythm of Earth’s renewal. Nature is deciduous. Trees flower and flowers bloom. Chipmunks awaken from hibernation to perform their springtime ritual of treetop acrobatics and tormenting dogs; fat robins waddle about until they unburden their eggs. This year, robins nested in a cedar tree outside our front door. My daughter…
May 24 2013 / No Comment / Read More »If oxygen is so critical to life in general, what impact does it have on the life span of wine? The answer was little known until the the rebirth of scientific reasoning during the Enlightenment of the 1800s. Prior to then, wine was transported in barrels, and was thus over-exposed to oxygen. This, of course,…
May 24 2013 / No Comment / Read More »It’s been a bad week for the skating Senators. Maybe they’ll win game four tonight. But even if Mike Duffy laces up and scores a hat trick to save the series with the Penguins, it’s hard to see how those highly paid masters of sober second thought, the non-skating Senators, can mount a comeback in…
May 24 2013 / No Comment / Read More »The Ottawa Senators entered the last minute of play down by the only goal scored in the game, up to that point. Erik Karlsson, the brilliant young Senators defenceman, was sitting in the penalty box, allegedly for slashing. He and Matt Cooke were duelling for the puck, when Cooke’s stick broke. Hardly a slash. Nonetheless,…
May 24 2013 / No Comment / Read More »“I know every damn inch of that park,” says Ralph Margetson. “I was born in the south of England and lived there until I was 11 years old. Got to…
May 17 2013 / No Comment / Read More »Have you ever stood in the fields of springtime and watched the geese gathering in the sloughs? Now and then you hear a few from far off: sometimes two or…
May 3 2013 / No Comment / Read More »The sign along Greer Road reads: ‘Simpson Farms, Since 1947’. I stop to ask permission to scavenge lumber bits from a nearby…
Apr 19 2013 / No Comment / Read More »I have a favourite pair of hiking boots. We’ve travelled well together for over two decades. Labrador mountains; prairie dirt; ocean to…
Apr 5 2013 / No Comment / Read More »I hope you’ve been following these columns, or reading the local papers, because I can’t possibly provide background for all the attacks…
Mar 15 2013 / No Comment / Read More »I study politics, human behaviour and corporate structures the way other people study a chess board, or enjoy the intricacies of an…
Mar 1 2013 / No Comment / Read More »As attacks continue from our provincial and federal governments, it’s a struggle to keep from falling into despair. The question I hear most out there is: “What can we do?…
Apr 19 2013 / No Comment / Read More »Who are the best stewards of the land? Who are the best stewards of the people? These are questions I have been pondering, while watching the draconian movements of our…
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