Peggy Revell Kaylee Johnson-Luoma, Pierce Gouin, and Whitney Gouin looked over a full griddle of pancakes that were cooked up yesterday morning at J.W. Walker School as families dropped by for a big breakfast before classes started. The breakfast was held to celebrate Education Week, as well as the re-opening […]
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Peggy Revell Stephen Dueck, with the help of Lindsey Westover, took aim at a target with a toy crossbow during the second-annual Barwick Gun & Hobby Show held Saturday at the community hall there. The day wasn’t just for adults, but included a kids’ corner featuring activities for the younger […]
Elisabeth Heslop Yvonne Calloway, Alyssa Spence, and Karleigh Ford (front), Ryley Pollard, Hailey Clendenning, Chelsey Skirten, Jaipal Binder, and Lexi Caul (middle), and Dexter Fichuk (rear), members of the Environmental Club at J.W. Walker School, showed their spirit prior to the start of the Environmental Film Festival yesterday at the […]
Mitch Calvert Participants in the Energy Fitness “5k in May” got off to a running start along the La Verendrye Parkway first thing on Saturday morning. Nearly 150 people took part in the full five-km run, with another 52 kids signed up for the one-km kiddie run which preluded the […]
Betty Sivonen Dear editor: I must agree with Keith and Joanne Gosselin about the proposed new library (Letters to the editor, April 22). Why spend loads of money when you have a new Bingo hall sitting vacant on McIrvine Road that can be built onto, with plenty of room for […]
The coffers must be pretty bare given the Civic Centre’s latest brainchild to save money. The plan, in a nutshell, is that south-side sidewalks will be eliminated whenever streets are repaired in future. The money saved on such things as maintenance and snow removal, in turn, will go towards building […]
Nadia Hedman To the editor: Thank you once more for the space in your newspaper for me to speak up—again—regarding the safety of pets in vehicles. Back on March 1, it finally became law for animals to be cared for properly, not only in transporting them but in every other […]
Helen Crook Dear editor: This is a serious letter of complaint about the deer situation in town. Apparently, not enough fines, or those of a sufficient amount, were levied to make an impression on those residents who feed the deer. One can only ask if they think a beautiful appearance […]
Bill KrukoskiAllan T. Bedard Dear editor: We cannot believe there is a bylaw being prepared in the backdoor to eliminate sidewalks already established in town. To further complicate matters, the statement that boulevards can be used to store snow in the winter, saving the town snow removal costs, is totally […]
Paul Murphy Dear editor: My group is working together to help fight obesity, but we want to expose weight bias stigma and discrimination. This is the undertow of the obesity crisis. I am working to create a nation-wide action plan for obesity. Let’s measure fitness using treadmills, blood pressure, and […]
By John Rafferty The recent AbitibiBowater bankruptcy has hit our local workers, suppliers, and families hard. I hear each day from those who have been laid off indefinitely or shorted thousands of dollars in payments, and from retirees who are now receiving notices informing them that they no longer are […]
A cartoon arrived by e-mail yesterday morning from Patrick Lamontagne that sums up spring. It is of a brilliant sun, with two silhouettes talking. The first asks, “What is it?” The second replies, “I don’t know, but it’s warm.” It talks about our spring. I was in Toronto this past […]
