Food: Too Good to Waste!
My eyes are usually much bigger than my stomach. I can easily buy much more than my family can eat. Hence, I have been engaged in a lifelong battle with my vegetable crisper – disciplining myself to plan meals and buy only what I need, and then managing the perishables so that they are…
Common Ground – September 2018
…. I have seen Full many a chill September. Oliver Wendell Holmes I’m hoping that the weather gods bring us some cooler weather in September. The supposedly short northern summer seemed endless this year. Even the drought summer of 2016 didn’t feel like it went on for as long as this season of endless…
Latest Addition to Cedar Valley Park
Council members and municipal staff join Bev Hilditch at the ribbon cutting ceremony introducing the latest addition to Cedar Valley Park last week, where a new children’s climber and play structure has been purchased and installed. Targeted at children from ages 18 months to 5 years, the new structure extends the play activities for…
Terry Fox Pushed It to the Limit for Cancer Research
Terry Fox was 18 years old when he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. His right leg was amputated 15 cm above the knee four days after the diagnosis. He passed away four years later – one month shy of his 23rd birthday. The impact Terry Fox continues to have on not just Canadians, but worldwide,…
Moving Forward at the EarlyOn Centre
There has been a significant transformation in the facilities for our local EarlyON Centre in the Old Millbrook School. A fresh coat of paint has been applied, some new pint-sized furniture delivered and an infant area been installed providing brighter and more functional new play areas in the two rooms used by our…