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Qigong: Going with the Flow
Qigong involves repeating exercises – some very simple and others much more rigourous – meant to get chi flowing. Specific exercises affect different areas of the body, allowing a practitioner to focus on particular problems and self-heal.
The Kids’ Table
For a while, we renamed it “The Employed Table,” but the retirees didn’t think that was very funny.
Main Street Moxie
Feminine verve and know-how are a mainstay on Main Street, learn how women retailers revive downtowns.
Living the High Life
Behind the Victorian façades above Broadway lives a lofty community devoted to the many delights of downtown living.
Headwaters Midwives: Ushering in New Life
One of the most popular reasons women are drawn to midwifery care is because it allows low-risk mothers the option of giving birth in the hospital or at home.
Your Public Library is Hot!
Once upon a time the public library was like a cathedral, where patrons came and went in reverent silence. Not anymore. Today’s library is action central.
Free Range Pig
I was hoeing the garden when Dillinger suddenly came around the henhouse, trotting along like he was on his way to the bank. He was sunburned and covered with dirt.
Our Favourite Picks for Autumn 2012
Our own highly selective “picks” of just some of the things that make life such a distinctive pleasure here in the hills.
The Perch
It is fair to say their discovery of a woman in the neighbourhood who traps raccoons, fixes floods, cleans the house and ploughs the driveway was also a revelation in its own way.
Ladies’ night out … with shotguns
I cracked the gun open and the empty shot popped out of the barrel in a small cloud of smoke.
The Slowest Runaway
“Don’t tell Dad! Don’t tell Bethany! Stop telling everybody in this world!”



