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Neal Cathcart to Run in North Monaghan
Speed Skaters Bring Home the Medals
Step Right Up, Win a Bruce Lepper Carving
New Gallery Has Stories to Tell
Zooming In… For The Bests, Community Matters
by: Celia Hunter Last Friday evening, Roy and Irene Best found themselves once again at the Mount Pleasant Women’s Institute Hall. Roy was MC for the first of what is hoped will be a series of Coffee Houses featuring music by local artists. Irene was on hand as President of… Continue reading
Doodling… Dandy Performance Enhancer For The Brain?
by: Karen Graham I’m a teacher, so I admit up front that when I see a student doodling in my class, I am offended. Am I not entertaining enough? (It’s a rhetorical question.) Like most of my colleagues, I assume that when someone is doodling, they are not listening to… Continue reading
A Champion in Our Midst… Bruce Lepper Loves Details
by: Celia Hunter Bruce Lepper was on the “whenever and all the time” schedule of a graphic artist in advertising and an art director at various agencies in Toronto, while trying to paint. It was too busy a life. It seems both Bruce and his wife Lyn were ready for… Continue reading
Community Spirit… Pat Barr Does It All For Fun
by: Celia Hunter Pat Barr and her husband Dave moved to the area just 10 years ago, and one of the first things on Pat’s to-do list was to turn up at a Community Choir practice, to sign up. She was welcomed with some surprise: no one had brought her… Continue reading