With a vision that healthcare should include spiritual well-being, Lynn Sinclair Smith has single-handedly supervised the construction and maintenance of the Friendship Gardens. She is constantly fundraising, recruiting volunteers, involving CVC (when snow removal brine applications started killing our trees and phragmites filled the ditches), campaigned for handicap accessibility and constantly re-imagined how things could…

Mark Zelinski trained as an artist and designer, and graduated as the top student of OCAD in 1979. His diverse career as a professional photographer has taken him across 80 countries with clients ranging from The National Film Board of Canada to Panasonic. He is also a publisher, writer, painter, filmmaker, Fellow of Royal Canadian…

Retired teacher Don Scallen will discuss “Anything but Grass.” He enjoys sharing his love of nature through his writing and presentations. A well-known local naturalist, regular contributor to In The Hills magazine and author of Nature — Where We Live. Guests $3.