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Three strikes, out!
This winter’s white stuff came down in unlimited drifts, and this spring’s clouds of…
Cutting down a huge elm tree in 1930 was easier said than done
Few people under the age of 60 will remember the elm trees that were an integral part of our local…
All but forgotten
The housing industry, which is so important for Canada’s economy, is on a kind of death…
Rainbow’s end
In a younger year, I was often told of a pot of gold that waited at the rainbow’s end. But…
Happy Daddy’s Day
Fathers everywhere will likely enjoy a fabulous Father’s Day on Sunday and that’s…
Arthur woman had a significant career in Detroit in 1920s
The village of Arthur was the least industrialized of Wellington County’s towns in the 19th…
Risk averse
Over the past five years stock markets have soared, approximately doubling, but that was…
True FIFA story
True story: Eight years ago I woke up from a coma in a strange room, in a foreign hospital and the…
Summer is here
It is hard to believe that though winter has gone, summer is here. Whatever happened to spring? It…
Notorious outlaw Orval Shaw appeared in Wellington County in 1929
The increasing use of automobiles by criminals in the 1920s has been noted in this column on…
One piece
Nothing could have prepared the Carpenter for this moment. It was inevitable. He knew this day…
The aftermath
The lessons of history have been ignored by governments who have continued to maintain cheap credit…
Wardrobe malfunction
I can’t recollect, but it must have been Friday the 13th; otherwise, how could so many…
Millennials’ problems
There clearly is a growing problem among millennials, those born between the years 1985 and 2000.…