Please make your voice heard, we know that historically, provincial government ears are turned much more by the voices of the families impacted. Over three months have passed since the mandatory closure orders were issued across Ontario that saw all schools, Licensed Child Care Centres and EarlyON Child and Family… Continue reading
How things have changed! Now instead of limiting screen time, families across the province are juggling to provide screens and internet to their children to allow them access to assignments, learning tools and their teachers so they can get some school work done. Parents have always been their children’s’ first… Continue reading
Since mid-March, teachers have scrambled to find ways to deliver content in new, remote ways while keeping the content accessible and relevant to their broad and diverse audience. Some of them had to come up to speed with the technology tools they would come to rely on in this new… Continue reading
North Cavan Public School Principal Martin Twiss joined this school in the fall of 2016 in the final stop in an extensive career in public education. During his time with the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board (KPRDSB), Twiss has been in the classroom, Board Superintendent and, finally, Elementary School… Continue reading
Maia McLean is missing her friends. Of course she communicates with them through social media, but the Grade 7 student has not had an actual conversation with any of them for weeks, and it’s getting to her. With so little happening, there is not much to talk about, except maybe… Continue reading
When I think about most of my vivid childhood memories, they have one thing in common: those memories took place outside. I remember running through the sprinkler in our backyard, going to pick strawberries with my sister and my Mom and then sitting on the porch hulling them so she… Continue reading
The call came just after practice, an extra practice in fact added to the teams schedule to prepare for the upcoming Play off Championship series in which the Millbrook Stars Peewee LL had qualified to play. The call was from the OMHA…..and with that call the hockey season was done. … Continue reading
Do you ever have those moments where you find yourself saying out loud, “They know I’m having a bad day so why do they insist on making harder?” I bet we all have; we are only human. Often, it can seem as though the more stressed or tense we feel,… Continue reading
The former location of A Buck or Two plus has been sold to Helping Hands Day Care, a family owned business operating seven day care centres in the Durham region. They plan to open a new facility in the building on Tupper Street. The relief from young families struggling to… Continue reading
