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May 11
Mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, are some of the affectionate ways we describe family members who are unique and irreplaceable.
If an accident or illness, a disability or even death claimed one of the unique and irreplaceable people in your life, what would you do?
Certainly there would be...
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May 11
Springtime is almost here. If you’re like many people, the arrival of spring means it’s time to spruce up your home. But why stop there? This year, consider applying some of those same spring-cleaning techniques to your investment portfolio.
Here are some ideas you may want to put...
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May 10
MUSKOKA — Welcome back to another season of Cottage Daze. You may have noticed that there have been some changes here. Looking around this space, I find myself in unfamiliar territory, a different paper, a different look.
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May 10
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MUSKOKA — When was the last time you read a Farmer’s Almanac? I haven’t read one in years but this year I ended up with a copy thanks to a friend.
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May 10
MUSKOKA — It is certainly great to be back writing my column for yet another year. These past months have certainly been a trial for me, what with nobody except my closest friends to share my fishing adventures with and most of them probably with me along the way.
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May 10
MUSKOKA — I’ll See You in My Dreams is William Deverell’s latest novel featuring former criminal defence lawyer Arthur Beauchamp (pronounced bee-ch’m, thank you). After a distinguished career, Beauchamp has retired to his hobby farm on Garibaldi Island with his beloved second wife, Green Party...
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May 09
My column of two weeks ago described how, at the close of the 19th century, cheese factories simultaneously sprang up in Dunchurch, McKellar, Carling Township, Parry Sound, and Rosseau.
Those brave ventures quickly failed, but another approach to squeezing nourishment from our stubborn soil...
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May 09
PARRY SOUND - Tim Vancoughnett was born and raised in Parry Sound. For many years Tim has actively participated in our community.
Tim has volunteered with the McKellar Fire Station #2 since he was approximately 25 years old, scrubbing the floors, providing maintenance and crushing...
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May 09
Little boys don’t walk when they go for a walk. At least, not with Grandpas they don’t. Boys point in one direction and then go off in three others. Hopping, skipping, bouncing, running – everything but walking.
They go ahead, lag behind, explore to the side, but seldom...
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May 09
The 2012 Reading Series at The Charles W. Stockey Centre continues with a reading on Wednesday, May 16, at 7:30 p.m., by Shandi Mitchell reading from her novel Under This Unbroken Sky.
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May 09
There’s been a lot of talk lately about immigration. Apparently, Canada needs hundreds of thousands of new immigrants in order to keep the jolly Canadian economy rolling forward in the face of an aging and retiring Baby Boom generation.
How is it then that Canada’s youth...
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Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary is a long way from mountainous Colorado.
It’s a journey Zoe the coyote made to her new home here in Ontario.
With nowhere to go, Zoe faced euthanasia and her desperate caretakers called from Colorado.
If we could provide a home in our...
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