Editor’s Desk

With this issue we go urban – or as urban as it gets in our small towns and villages.

One of the biggest challenges facing the local food movement is distribution – or how to best get produce from the fields and farms to area restaurants and home kitchens.

What it is that makes this place we call home so dear to us?

Headwaters is emerging as the hottest new culinary region in Canada!

Playwright Dan Needles created Walt Wingfield, a feckless ex-urbanite who champions the spirit of rural life and keeps the audience rolling ruefully in theatre aisles.

It has become a bit of a tradition to dedicate much of our winter issue to the remarkable people whose optimistic spirits and hard work make this community a better place to live.

But however ill-conceived the Melancthon quarry may be, the big question remains: how do we satisfy our voracious appetite for aggregate?

“We want people to taste the bounty of the land that is threatened by the quarry,” says Stadtländer.

In between issues, you can keep up to date with local food news, events and recipes all here, online at www.inthehills.ca.

Or drink cement. Or greet your neighbours across a 2,300 acre pit.

The approaching holidays are a time of tradition and rejoicing.

In this, the colourful season in the hills, we ask municipal councillors and candidates about their lives in politics. And we say a very fond farewell to Alison Hird who for the past ten years has supplied our calendar events.