The following are memories from Mrs. Thomas Farrell, grandmother of Lynn Farrell of Kincardine. She was born in 1874 and was attending elementary school when the Dark Day incident occurred in 1881. It was similar to what we saw Monday, April 8, a solar eclipse. Thanks to Lynn Farrell for ...
To the Editor: We are always hearing of random acts of kindness taking place in our little community which is definitely heart-warming, especially with all the terrible things going on in the world today. We have been the recipients of such acts of kindness, ranging from having a co...
Our hearing is one of the most valuable senses we have. It’s something we don’t often appreciate until it starts to go and causes issues – mainly interrupting our communication. Part of looking after ourselves and our health includes keeping an eye on our hearing (pun in...
As I sip my latte and type this on my MAC, I am aware of many of the people my age who don’t have the luxury of either. Let’s do the math: $15/hour times a 2,000-hour work year equals $30,000 income BEFORE taxes. In Ontario, the poverty line for a single person is $...
Who influenced me to choose a career in teaching? Of course, my three aunts who taught in one-room Kincardine Township schools as I was growing up: Mum’s sister, Aunt Evelyn; Uncle Howard’s wife, Aunt Wanita; and Aunt Sadie who was my first teacher not long after she married U...
To the Editor: RE: “Dr. Solomon Secord, you are not alone” I believe that Man Lahrkamp wrote an excellent letter to the editor. He asked why Dr. Solomon Secord moved to Georgia, but was afraid we would never know. I have been researching through the Bruce Coun...
I am writing about kids and health today because I recently took the Government of Canada’s on-line Physical Activity Quiz and failed one of the questions on youth and physical activity. There are 10 questions and I thought, “Oh, I will ace this,” given everything I have...
To the Editor: To my amazement, Dr. Solomon Secord’s Monument is not the only Civil War Monument in Canada. Just west of Cornwall, Ontario, is a Civil War Monument honouring the 40,000 Canadians who were involved in that conflict. There were 36,000 with the north, th...
Life has sped up. A never-ending stream of stimuli is vying for your attention every minute of the day. Some of it is fabulous and some of it is time-wasting. So, how do you decipher how to spend your time? The answer: you face the fact that you are actually going to d...
Fancy booking a cruise on the Saugeen River? Admittedly, there are no such cruises today, but there certainly were in the 19th Century. The first steamboat used on the rivers and lakes of Bruce County was “Water Witch,” on the Saugeen River in 1880. This marked the start of...
RE: “Secord Monument public engagement process begins” To the Editor: History is history, regardless. Like it or not, it happened. Dr. Solomon Secord did good and, apparently, bad. He is not here to defend his position, so that is that. We have much more to worry a...
Smile! A smile goes a long way to warm the heart, the head and even the body. I tell jokes just to, hopefully, get a smile from people. I learned early in life that smiling takes the edge off so many things. When someone smiles at you, you’re reminded that, “Hey, there&rsqu...
Humans are born with about 100-billion brain cells. Until the 1990s, most scientists believed 100-billion was all we’d ever have. Growing new neurons would interrupt communication among our existing brain cells and short-circuit the whole system — or so the theory w...
WATER: At Pleasure Valley Farm, it was a significant part of everyday life – whether to drink, for cooking and washing, or for activities in the river or in the lake. The Penetangore River ran westward between the barnyard and the tobogganing hills, flowing among small stones unt...
To the Editor: This letter was addressed to Kincardine mayor Kenneth Craig and council Re: The Waterfront Plan Report We have reviewed the Waterfront Plan Report and would like to submit a few comments about the boardwalk gardens on behalf of the Kincardine and District Horticult...
We’ve heard the term personal trainer. But what do personal trainers really do? How can they help someone? I sat down with a personal trainer to find out what all the fuss is about. I learned a boat-load of information, and came away with a better understanding and appreciation f...
Canada’s first Black lawyer, Robert Sutherland (1830–1878), ran a law office in Walkerton for 20 years and was elected reeve in 1872. He was from Jamaica, the son of a Scottish father and a Jamaican mother. What few know is that Sutherland single-handedly rescued Queen&rsqu...
Most of us are now in the last quarter of our life and should read this interesting piece of advice from David Heiss. This is one of the nicest and most gentle articles I’ve read in a while: no politics, no religion, and no racial issues - just food for thought. You know &hell...
Although I didn’t happen upon the notation in Mum’s diary, I know that Prince travelled in the back seat of Grandpa Pollock’s car (with the seat removed!) from Schomberg, north of Toronto, to our farm. He was a coal black Shetland pony who became an important part of ...
Goals. We talk about goals like they are a must. We throw the term around often and so glibly at the beginning of each year. Are we really going to stick to them? We might as well switch two letters and change it to the old medieval word “gaol,” because sometimes goals can fee...