New Year Birds
A very Happy New Year to you from all your feathered friends and myself who, like you, have stayed here to endure and, maybe...
Talking about a Revolution: Cause and Effect 1
If it was possible to go back in time and visit the first Christians, many modern church-attending believers, as well as non-Christians, would find...
Fundamentals: More seeing and believing
First of all, thanks to those who wrote after last month’s article, “Seeing is believing”. Not everyone wanted their letters published, but we enjoyed...
Amputee’s story highlights importance of farm safety
With farming season here, Merrill Loeppky, a War Amps Regional Representative, is reminding parents to pass on an essential and possibly life-saving lesson to...
Federal and Provincial Funding for Municipalities
by Harmen Boersma
Recently, the NG Times published interesting articles by Jim Bertram and Stephen Hammond on this topic. Stephen showed a list of five...
Let’s talk about income and health
Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District Health Unit
Many people in our community don’t earn enough at their jobs to make ends meet and therefore face...
Baldwin’s Birds
A very quiet time in the garden at present, except for our Blue Jay clan of six birds, who are our regular visitors, and...
A Partial Solar Eclipse
by Gary Boyle
The Backyard Astronomer
A few times each year, the sun, moon and Earth perform a cosmic lineup in space producing an eclipse. This...
Dialogue is better than rants
by Colin Creasey
I have to assume that Jim Bertram’s vitriolic rant, entitled “Ceasing to think”, is in response to my article recently on climate...
Early morning singers
Nesting in our garden, seems to have slowed down for the time being, or at least the activity around my various nesting boxes has....