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Columns January 5, 2006  RSS feed

Just a Tuning Fork
     Because my father is visually challenged, he attended the school for the blind in Brantford, Ontario, many, many years ago. In addition to all the regular subjects taught in that institution, there were lessons in trades that might be useful to students in their adult years. Dad learned how to tune
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Royal Canadian Legion News
     What looked like a bust at the beginning of last week turned out to be a surprising success for Branch 233 by the time December 31st rolled around. A near-capacity crowd complete with the customary New Year
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Orangeville Trustee (Upper Grand District School Board)
Monthly Column Edition: December, 2005
     On of my additional responsibilities, as a result of being your elected public school trustee, is to sit on a provincial advisory committee investigating the effects of violence in the media. The committee is comprised of representatives from the teacher unions, police, faculties of education and tr
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Upper case, lower case
     The other day, as we were driving home with a couple of family movies she had
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Not a pretty picture for a while
     N ow that the spring training phase of the Jan. 23 federal election has passed by
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The ‘06 years
     I n Charles Dickens
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Empathetic Requests
     I receive a monthly newsletter from Marc Sadoff, a relationship counselor in California.
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The global pestering system
     There are four things you should know about my wife. They all seem to be unrelated,
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Local Option won in 51 Ontario municipalities
Dipping Into the Past
     100 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 4, 1906  Acclamations have resulted in Henry White becoming Reeve of Shelburne, Thomas Oldfield Reeve of Melancthon and P. J. Cunningham Reeve of East Luther. In elections I. J. Murphy became Reeve of Mono. Across the province, Local Option carried in 51 municipalit
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