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Spring 2008

Volume 15 Number 1

Bedded Bliss

“Our goal has been to have an interesting garden view out each window of the house and to have water garden sounds from each open window in the summer.”

Mar 23, 2008

No Ordinary Swimming Pool, No Ordinary Pond

If you get the plants right, everything else pretty much falls into place.

Mar 23, 2008

Wetland Restoration? Leave it to Beaver

If beavers are permitted to help reverse wetland losses, frogs will be among the happy beneficiaries.

Mar 23, 2008

Fine Fiddling and Flying Footwork

Step Dancing In Headwaters Has Two Local Heroes

Mar 23, 2008

Yesterday’s Superstore: A Tribute to the Old General Store

In the Waldemar store, pop was five cents in the 1940s (seven cents if you took it outside, but there was a two-cent bottle return).

Mar 23, 2008

Two Little Railways Made North American History

The Toronto Grey & Bruce and the Toronto & Nipissing Railways were the first of their kind on the continent.

Mar 23, 2008

Field of Schemes

There’s a population boom coming to Headwaters. Where will all the people go and what will it mean for our countryside?

Mar 23, 2008

Enough of Zoomburb

When I moved to Caledon from Toronto in 1974, feeling all starry-eyed and back-to-the-landish, as befitted the mood of the times, the population of the newly minted “town” was just…

Mar 23, 2008

Letters – Our readers write: Spring 2008

Letters published in the SPRING 2008 edition of In The Hills magazine.

Mar 23, 2008

Bursting bubbles, boosterisms and commoner sense

Boost “Deficit spending is already beyond belief, and the country is hugely indebted, as are households. The housing bubble has already burst. The Federal Reserve has made clear it will…

Mar 23, 2008

Jim Reid

“The painting sites I choose are places I have revisited since childhood, and so they are also saturated with personal memory.”

Mar 23, 2008

Eastern Meadowlark

Eastern Meadowlarks decline 24% in 20 years.

Mar 23, 2008