Retailers, of course, always are thinking about ways to increase profits; usually, they will do so…
Thanks given
Thanksgiving weekend is my favourite long weekend in the calendar year. No other holiday weekend…
Sunny nooks
Wow! What a beautiful fall we are having up here in cattle country! Occasional showers intermingled…
Harriston’s Guthrie Church rejected use of Gaelic in services
In the 20th century the majority of Canadian Presbyterians supported the establishment of the…
Sobering thoughts
Most of us are aware of the irrational behaviour of the stock market. However, recently that has…
BST Day
For those of you on the fringes of my readers’ circle who can’t quite understand what…
Telling stories
It is said that if you do what you love in your career, the rewards will be richer than financial…
Gunn’s Limited of Harriston was embroiled in 1920s property tax dispute
A couple of times this column has dealt with the operation of the Gunn food processing plant in…
Gas plant debacle
The Auditor General’s report to the Ontario Legislature on Oct. 8 finally gave us the true…
Group thinking
In general, people’s decisions in the market are made on their own information and then, to a…
Whistle
My favourite moment at the end of each day is when the Carpenter walks in the door from work.…
If they could talk
A nearby neighbour dropped in this past week and, as he had a number of places to go, he asked if I…
Busy-ness
Many of us question just what executives actually do to warrant their huge financial rewards. Once…
My dance card
There is one event in our social calendar that the Carpenter and I don’t miss: the Monster…
Winter is coming
I was sitting comfortably on my butt a couple of days ago, in a comfy lean-back chair, out back of…