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Lawn bowls for sale

Own your own Taylor lawn bowls. One...

Pinehurst: Jane Jacobs and the positive side of Nimbyism

I attended the December 2, 2025 public...

Gingery Pork and Snap Pea Stir Fry

by Susan Hanna This recipe from Bon Appetit...

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A Huge Thank You!

To the people who stopped and helped my husband get up and get home after he fell while crossing Almonte Street—THANK YOU! We went immediately to the ER. Mike was...

they keep on walking

by Chris Cavan they keep on walking hearts attuned to love & peace the only way they know one foot ahead of the other over & over along the winding spiral of history hoping for change for something...

My friend Jim, or the best Christmas gift I ever gave myself

Editor's Note: This story's author told us, "My wife, Nancy Martin, spent her formative years in Almonte, and we go back to visit each September from our current home...
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Who was the real Ebenezer?

by Vince Marquis Probably the most recognized use of the name “Ebenezer” is that of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ immortal Christmas novella of 1843,...

Visiting Canadian war cemeteries

Last week we visited the Reichswald Forest Cemetery in Germany and the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands. In these two Commonwealth War...

Remembrance Day, remembered

by Bernadette van Duyvendyk As I enter the mall, I imagine the person I see is my father, in dress uniform, seated behind the table...

Aging Lament OR ‘A Man on the Porch’

A story of age and age's intellectual exertions. by John Clinton While working at a facility north of home, I travelled daily past an older looking...

Memories of Liberation in the Netherlands, 1945

by Ingrid Hamster May 5th, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of Liberation Day in the Netherlands, when Canadian troops freed the Dutch from Nazi occupation....

Box of Seeds

Bernadette van Duyvendyk, February 17, 2025 I live in a box of seeds collected last fall now lying dormant as the doldrums of winter ignite a raw west wind that...

A tribute to professor Warren Thorngate

That night - the last meeting By Jing Liu That night, in the season’s turning point between late winter and early spring, darkness seemed to fall...

Retail

by Bill Chapman When I arrived in Almonte in 1976 as a young lawyer, my office was on the second floor at 74 Mill Street,...

Vaclav Havel on hope

Sue Evans sends this inspirational quote from Vaclav Havel ‒ written while he was in prison years before he became President of Czechoslovakia: The kind...

Proud to be a Canadian

Sandra Blackburn Powell of Carleton Place sends this inspiring poem about Canadian pride: Today is my birthday. A time to celebrate but more importantly to remember, reflect and...

Great Uncles

by Jake Geuer In 1999, I was a teenager who didn’t care much for school—a struggling student at ADHS. That was until a co-op program came...

Nothing is more important than this day

by Jeff Mills “Nothing is more important than this day” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Years ago, I made the conscious decision to embrace winter. Canadian winter, outside...

Pardon My Garden

C.H. Wells The summer's long over, you've run out of thyme; You can't change the weather with peat moss or lime. Through nights that grew chili to...

Thoughts on a local hospital visit

I took a dear friend for a medical procedure at one of our local hospitals. I dropped her off inside, at the entrance, and after...
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