Telecare Peterborough Seeking Volunteers
Telecare Distress Centre of Peterborough is a free, anonymous and strictly confidential 24-hour call line for people in need of a friendly person who will listen. Their phones are answered by volunteers who are good listeners, enjoy talking to people and are trained to handle crisis situations. The volunteers and the callers they support…
Common Ground – April 2022
“We are tired of Winter’s cold leftovers. Given a taste of spring in April, we want a full meal of it.” Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons The snow and ice still hanging around at the end of March certainly looked like winter’s leftovers. And I’m sure that we’ll get more snow before it…
Treatments to Prevent Infestation of Spongy Moth (aka Gypsy Moth)
Remember the defoliation last summer resulting from a particularly aggressive gypsy moth infestation? Experts advise that the month of April is a good time to take some preventative measures to avoid a repeat of last year’s experience. First, the terminology has changed. The common name “gypsy moth” has been officially replaced with the name…
The One That Got Away!
Every year my family heads up to Algonquin Park for a few days of camping. We try to stay on Mew Lake and we try to get a camp site on the water. In the summer of 2020, we were camping on the water again. On the last morning of our camping trip my…
A Call to Action
Call it an invitation, a challenge, or a gesture of care and thanks to this beautiful place we share, but whatever the motivation, we think Spring is an ideal time to show our respect by doing a little picking up, and hope you do too. One day this past week, two of us set…
Do You Wonder Where the local United Church is?….if so we would love to meet you!
Harmony Pastoral Charge is the name of the combined congregations of the Millbrook, Cavan, Bailieboro and Springville United Churches. Although we do not have a visible church building, we continue to be the United Church of Canada in this community and would love to have you join us. We have continued strong during the…