COMMENT – Whose Rights?
Early in the pandemic, a US talk show interviewed a young mother who complained about having to isolate upon her return from a trip, arguing if others were afraid of the risk she posed, they should stay home, not her. This is now a growing sentiment. Protestors against public health restrictions claim they violate…
Letters to the Editor – December 2020
Missing Poppies As members of the Decorating Committee, we would like to thank the many people who take time to show their appreciation for the work we do downtown. It continues to be our absolute pleasure to help enhance this lovely village one way or another, adding color and life to planters, baskets, lampposts…
Small Opening for Potential Baxter Creek’s Adult Lifestyle Community?
It was always part of the plan to develop a small community of adult lifestyle homes on the property that Baxter Creek Golf Club calls home, but the venture has been thwarted by planning regulations. Recent changes to the provincial planning framework have opened a small crack through which a possible development may…
Pandemic Allows Local Couple Time to Launch New Business
Amy Howley has always had a creative bent and her husband Dean loves working with wood. Amy would find inspiration on Pinterest, and ask her husband – can you make this? Of course he could, so he did. One of their first joint creations was a headboard. While shopping for one for their home,…
Clarke’s Café Continues the Family Tradition
The reprieve provided by the pandemic crystallized Jule’s Kitchen owner/operator Julie’s desire to move on from the restaurant she operated for – years in the family-owned building that houses Clarke’s Service Centre, the gas station, the car wash and laundromat. After mulling it over, Mike and Heather Clarke decided to step in and take…