Autumn 2014

Opportunities for local public school students to study in French have increased significantly.

I have always felt both sad and a little guilty that, in the dust of the baby boomers, the Gen Xers never really had the opportunity to grab the world by the tail.

Letters published in the Autumn 2014 edition of In The Hills magazine.

Diana’s work can be seen this fall at the annual open studio at Silver Creek Farm in Caledon, as well at the Headwaters Arts Festival Show & Sale.

A 6½-inch-high shell casing inscribed by a German prisoner of war, 1918, and an ashtray made from a larger shell (3 inches in diameter).

“Don’t worry. You didn’t kill him. It takes at least a two-by four to kill a rooster.”

Heart and muscle at the fall fair. Heavy horse pulls are crowd pleasers at Ontario’s fall fairs.

Many home cooks are daunted by the idea of preparing a risotto, imagining it requires hours of standing over a hot stove stirring constantly.

“Barley works even better than rice because you can’t overcook it,” says Gourmandissimo Chef Gilles Roche.

Beginning in the late 1920s, though, a series of government regulations along with profit-driven business decisions gradually changed telephone service across the country into a fluid network.

“I like her,” he said, pulling her out from under the deck where the pups were all in various positions and states of sleep in the dry summer dirt.

Solving a mystery was just the first step in transforming a tired Pan-Abode into a contemporary, eco-friendly dwelling.