Autumn 2016

An ode to the army who enables our green conscience and takes out the trash.

The best thing about the blue box is how widely accepted the concept has become and it started right here in Ontario, Canada.

Hundreds of truckloads of baled recycling materials are shipped out of the Peel Integrated Material Recovery Facility each week to industries who use them in manufacturing.

My new four-foot-tall recycling bin toppled on its side, sending cereal boxes, newspapers and yogurt containers blowing in all directions.

Too often belittled as “idle” land awaiting development – or “rescued” by reforestation – meadows deserve the same protection and respect as our woodlands and wetlands.

Charles Ernest Thomas, private, 3rd Field Company, Canadian Engineers

A preview of the Headwaters Arts Festival and Show.

History in the Making. For these furniture designers, style and story go hand in hand.

Put a Chef in Your Freezer! Locally made prepared foods make frozen dinners a hot option when there’s no time to cook.

Ride along and learn about foraging on horseback in the hills.

These Students are Going to the Dogs – and Raising Their Grades. For students at Humberview Secondary School, training service dogs is a transformative experience.

Betty Ward of Orangeville knows the responsibility of generational memory. Her father Charles Thomas, who survived the First World War, had kept a regular diary during his service.

Letters published in the Autumn 2016 edition of In The Hills magazine.

Sharon’s latest works are a vibrant interpretation of the Island Lake Trail near Orangeville, where she often paints on location.