Tag: local people
Unique Paper Craft Vendor Joins Millbrook Market
Maybe it’s because she works at the library that Judi felt compelled to give old books a second lease on life. Applying folding techniques associated with origami, she takes discarded books headed for oblivion…
Volunteers Wanted!
You could say that the demand for volunteers exceeded the supply at last week’s Volunteer Fair hosted by the Cavan Monaghan Library staff. Participants hoped to secure new volunteers to help them through the…
Wutai Shan Temple Open House
The date for the Open House for the Buddhist Temple has been changed to June 19th. It’s time for another peek at the progress at the Buddhist Associations’ major project known as Wutai Shan…
Jade Eagleson Takes on the Country Music World
It has been a whirlwind year for Jade Eagleson, and he’s just getting started. Last fall, he took second place in the 28th Aurora Magna Hoedown Showdown country music competition. During the winter he…
Welch Family: Three Generations of Barn Painters
It’s a niche business, but for Terry Welch, it’s one he learned from his father in the United Kingdom. After working in Britain and Ireland, Welch brought family and his skills to Canada about…
Paying it Forward a Fitting Way to Remember
The tone of the message was ideally targeted to the audience of St. Peter’s Catholic Secondary School students last Friday morning. Dressed in a tee shirt and ball cap, the thirty-something speaker told a…
Local Connections to Hero of Windsor’s Memorial Cup Win
The Windsor Spitfires made tournament history doing the unthinkable: they earned a place in the Memorial Cup tournament because they were the host, not because of their league playoff performance. Against the odds, the…
Duct Taped Principal
North Cavan PS has now, for the third year in a row, convinced the principal to allow the staff and students to tape him to the wall using duct tape that was donated by…
More Recognition for Alex Bushell’s Lab Improvement
It has been a bit of a whirlwind for Lab Improvements founders Alex Bushell and Steve Wright. Having left their former employer after an international takeover in 2013, Bushell and Wright began working out…