If there is one thing that the year 2022 taught me, it鈥檚 that I have zero ability to predict my own future. None.聽
Hey Santa
With all due respect, Santa, I鈥檇 like to request you take me off your 鈥淣ice鈥 list this year.聽
Wonderful Christmastime
Paul McCartney is watching me as I type this. His big puppy dog eyes are fixated on me all day. I am totally okay with that, though to be honest it鈥檚 distracting. Paul has me in the Christmas spirit.
Seniors mixed league popular at Fergus Curling Club
Hurry hard 鈥 The Fergus Curling Club has an active roster on Wednesday afternoons for its seniors…
Big ask
The two green envelopes, addressed to Santa Claus, had been tucked under a stack of files for 12 years, but the notes inside each of them confirmed that my unique, kind, polite children are still all those things, with just enough unapologetic confidence to keep it real.聽
Lights
I think I get it now, the whole rush to decorate for Christmas weeks before it happens. Not October. I don鈥檛 get that. But November decor, well, I鈥檝e accepted that.聽
Victoria Park Seniors Centre hosts Craft Shoppe
Busy hands 鈥 Once a week for about two hours, Lois McDougall of Elora gets to work on a quilt at…
Lighthouse
Good music never gets old. Good musicians don鈥檛 either. And my music-obsessed heart will always beat just a little faster for a band with a good horn section.聽
Paramount
You should have seen my face when I found out that I could not watch the new season of Yellowstone, a highly charged fictional television series that was last winter鈥檚 binge-watching addiction in my house.聽
GrandPals Project seeks to form intergenerational bonds
MAPLETON 鈥 Classroom environments may look very different to today鈥檚 seniors, but the key lessons they鈥檝e learned in life will now be part of the curriculum for students in Teszalyn Roantree鈥檚 grade 4/5 class at Maryborough Public School.聽
Melody Makers performed Remembrance Day Program
Melody Makers 鈥 The Victoria Park Seniors Centre鈥檚 talented musicians, the Melody Makers, gave…
‘We Will Remember Them’ display an invitation to learn personal history of veterans
ABOYNE 鈥 With the start of November comes a marker of remembrance that has become an important tradition on the sprawling lawn of the Wellington County Museum and Archives, (WCMA).聽
Victoria Cross staff ensures local veterans are honoured year round
MOUNT FOREST 鈥 Remembrance Day will be marked at schools across Wellington County.聽
Remembrance starts with poppies, ends with respect at St. Mary Catholic School
ELORA 鈥 On the wall, in the hallway just a short distance through the front door of St. Mary Catholic School in Elora, a cut-out of a solider is pasted to the wall.聽
Alright
The kids are alright. That鈥檚 the message I want you to take away from this Remembrance Day column.聽