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Keith Munro — Celebration of life, August 1

Come and celebrate the life of Keith "Greaser"...

Community breakfast at St. George’s Anglican Church, May 9

Free community breakfast on Saturday, June 13...

Come out for Almonte Celtfest’s 30th anniversary edition July 3-5!

Almonte Celtfest is celebrating their 30th anniversary...

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Letter from Paris: Hot Times for Seniors in Paris

by Keith Spicer Planning to let loose on that long-dreamt getaway to the City of Light? You can probably handle sightseeing yourself with a good guidebook or, better, a professional guide, but...

Who’s left on the right?

“Well, the one on the right was on the left And the one in the middle was on the right And the one on the left was in the middle And the...

Bill Chapman weekly column By the Way to end

After 7 years of loyally contributing to the Millstone, Bill Chapman has decided to end his weekly columns. Bill was one of our first contributors, sending us weekly Friday...
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60 years of change

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. While I have regularly remarked upon the peculiar customs and habits of people who lived before me, I never considered my own...

Gardening in Almonte: More Fall Planting

It remains glorious fall weather and what a contrast it is with last fall. Last year the end of the season for tomatoes, peppers,...

Counsel of perfection

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. The way most people casually toss about the expression "Counsel of Perfection" you'd think they were talking about something unattainable...

Process of elimination

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Nobody likes computer problems though we've all had them.  What makes them so exasperating is that one hasn't...

You must stay for dinner!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Cutting short an impromptu social engagement isn't easy.  This is particularly so if your hosts are by nature warmhearted and ungrudging. How...

Threat to our way of life

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. As the Americans approach the upcoming 2016 Presidential Election they begin their next round of intense self-examination.Political conversation...

Caribbean Pasta

Many years ago I traveled to one of the islands in the Caribbean.  It was so long ago that I cannot recall specifically which...

Low light and mahogany

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Although I am fascinated occasionally to read stark criticism of revered principles and institutions (for example Thomas Paine's refutation...

This is what I do

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. After two days of unbroken interference by extraneous elements with my daily routine - a length of time which...

Technology Rules!

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Alexander Graham Bell, if he were to come back from the grave, would no doubt be quite astounded...

The labours and pleasures of rural life

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. Those who live on acreage in the townships may look down their noses at those who live in...

Debt

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. I know of no sagacious soul who is ambivalent when pronouncing upon the subject of debt though most condemn it....

Retreat for the decline of my life

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. There are several models of a small vacation community which have had their appeal to me.  I reckon...

The power of persuasion

by L. G. William Chapman, B.A., LL.B. The major of my undergraduate liberal arts degree was philosophy, the study of convictions and ideology but perhaps more...
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