ZimArt’s Rice Lake Gallery Prepares for its Final Season
After 23 years operating a unique gallery Fran Fearnley has made the difficult decision that this year will be the last for ZimArt’s Rice Lake Gallery. The gallery opened in 2000 and features selected pieces from more than 50 Zimbabwean stone sculptors on a rural property overlooking Rice Lake. The venture began after a…
Partners Offer Help for Healthy Hearing
Audiologist Judy Keith and her partner Stephen Ward operate two EarSense locations where they help their customers keep connected by supporting their hearing health. The original location is in East City, and last fall they opened a location at 999 Landsdowne St. West at the Parkway. Both are easily accessible from their home base…
Aunt Laura’s Tea Room
Kathy Morton, the proprietor of Aunt Laura’s Tea Room hosted a Coronation celebration to mark the coronation of King Charles III to the throne of the United Kingdom. The high tea began with singing of God Save the King. Followed by the introduction of the guests and discussion of how some of them were…
Common Ground – June 2023
“Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.” Walt Whitman A passing walker asked me if I wasn’t depressed to be deadheading the last of spring’s daffodils. I replied that this has been the best daffodil year in decades so no sadness this year. It’s only sad when it suddenly gets…
What Is Wisdom?
There is a story in the Bible (Matthew 1:16) often titled, “Workers in the Vineyard.” A vineyard owner needs to hire help for harvest. He had to return repeatedly to the town square all day for more workers, Even an hour before the day’s end, he hired and sent more workers to the vineyard.…