Digging deep
Slump tests Dukes The Wellington Dukes have lost their last five games. Each loss has been by a single goal. Three have been lost in a shootout where Dukes snipers have managed to beat the opposing netminder just once in nine tries. Four of the Dukes losses have been given up in front of disappointed […]
Death in Dallas
Examining the evidence of the murder of a president Fifty years after he was assassinated, interest in the killing of the American president John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963 remains a burning obsession for many. The Kennedys were the closest American’s had to a royal family. The young and charismatic president seemed […]
Wounded warrior
Honouring the 198 soldiers who fell in Afghanistan David McFaul has seen terrible things. Neighbours killing neighbours in Bosnia. Chasing the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden through the mountains in eastern Afghanistan, direct combat in the caves and hillsides of Tora Bora. McFaul was part of the very first military force on the ground in […]
Storming the beaches
Canadian Armed Forces training in Hillier A company of about 100 Canadian Armed Forces personel from Petawawa had hoped to slip into the County, stay low, and get out, after a couple of weeks of training exercises, without a trace. But any hopes of maintaining a low profile evaporated almost immediately after barricades were erected […]
Idle hands
Dukes hope to rediscover success in a busy weekend of games As odd as it sounds, the Wellington Dukes are likely looking forward to the busy schedule ahead this weekend. After having played just four games over the past three and half weeks, the Dukes have only one win. Their performance since October 20 runs […]
One injured in fail-to-remain collision
(Prince Edward County, ON)—On November 7, 2013 at 12:08pm officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)—Prince Edward County detachment responded to a motor vehicle collision at Church St. and York St., Picton. The driver of one vehicle involved fled the scene of the collision. The second driver, who was injured, was transported by ambulance to […]
On the beach
Russ Burrows offers a firsthand account of landing on Dieppe in 1942 and life as a POW Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love W.B. Yeats It was a massacre. There can be no other way to describe what happened that murderous morning. More than […]
Tough loss
Dukes look to rebound against North York on Friday It was a bad way to lose a hockey game. The Wellington Dukes had been up 2-0 in a game in which all the battles were fought along the wall. They had won their share against a gritty, determined and hardworking Cobourg team. They had made […]
On the edge
Pulling back the veil on hunger in our community John and Lisa (not their real names) were expecting their second child when Lisa learned she had breast cancer. At about the same time, John learned his hours would be cut back at work to part-time. He was needed more at home so the extra time […]
The beauty of dance
Leland and Barbara Pearsall celebrate 70 years of marriage Leland Pearsall knows the secret to dancing all night long. The 92-year-old Leland and his wife, Barbara, 89, have been dancing most Friday and Saturday nights for the past 70 years. The trick is close your mouth tight,” explains Leland, eager to share his technique, “and […]