Newspapers, people help document local history

April 15, 2015 · 0 Comments

We are not as tiny as we are led to believe. Human history is brimming with stories, anecdotes, tales and documented events. It’s filled with people, seemingly unassuming sorts, who’ve changed history. Many more had smaller parts to play in this drama that has taken tens of thousands of years to unfold.

A word to our youth – you don’t know everything!

Mark Pavilons “I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all ...

Your turn in the 2015 plan review process

When we look around us, we know King Township is blessed with some of the most beautiful landscape in all of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The rolling hills, large tracts of forest, wetlands, kettle lakes and many streams and rivers are part of the Oak Ridges Moraine (ORM) which covers 70% of King.

Embrace the kind souls you encounter!

There are tremendous opportunities to learn all around us. Life is one big skill-testing question and we can do well, if we only take the time to look, listen and absorb.

Who speaks for the bees?

Well, it appears that my comments about neonicotinoids, or neonics, ruffled a few feathers in the agri-business community. It seems that environmental literacy is all well and good until it affects our jobs, income and lifestyles.

Why dogs are better than our biggest ‘money pits’

Children, like dogs, seem to like me. Call it animal magnetism. Children aren’t like cars, motorcycles, airplanes, your favourite CD or even a really good pair of jeans.

Wacky weather and arctic amplification

At the end of our very cold February here in King, Sig Langhammer asked me to go outdoors and dig up a good explanation for our new breaking news weather records.

Assisted suicide will become a reality

Canada will have legislation governing physician-assisted suicide, ending decades-long debates about the touchy subject of euthanasia.

Parenting just gets more complicated

Children. Seemed like such a good idea we had three of them. What were we thinking?

2014 takes the warmest year award

Well, there you have it. You might not believe that the planet is continuing to warm, especially if you are living along the northeast coast of North America right now, but 2014 is absolutely the warmest year on record! How do I know this to be a fact? NASA and their Goddard Institute for Space Studies said so.

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