Having two hockey crazy kids at home, my wife and I have talked for quite some time about building an outdoor rink in the backyard.
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Finding veteran burials requires detective work
You may remember last summer a small committee of volunteers placed poppy rocks on the veteran graves, which Clarence Keiffer located in Walkerton Cemetery and Calvary Cemetery.
Revisiting the 1922 Gorrie explosion
I have slipped back into a bit of a habit, if you would like to call it that.
How did you celebrate the New Year? We spent ours fighting a parasitic virus
It’s 2 a.m. on the day this paper starts getting thrown together, ‘pagination’ as my colleagues say, and by this point, I would normally have about five or six, maybe even seven articles all on the verge of completion. Thousands of words of the Listowel Banner ready to submit for your consumption.
HOPE REFLECTED | More salt, please!
A multi-functional mineral, salt comes in different forms and is used for many different purposes. From preserving and flavouring food to home health remedies, salt has been used for thousands of years.
Calculating the incalcuable – Part II
In our house we eat a lot of bananas. They are cheap, nutritious, and easy to handle for young children. With the glaring exception of the potato chip aisle, we do our best to shop the outside of the grocery store.
Goodbye 2021 – happy to see you go!
Finally, 2021 is history. The expectations for 2022 are great with the pandemic fading into the past. Time to deal with the future.
2022 World Juniors: Train wreck from opening puck drop
Alright, I’ve had about a week to cool down over this one. Albeit it didn’t help much – I’m still pretty ticked off, as are a lot of people.
New Millennium Quilters Guild December meeting
On Dec. 15, the New Millennium Quilters Guild (NMQG), in collaboration with the Bluewater Quilters Guild (Owen Sound), viewed a beautiful “Show and Share” presentation of various quilts and quilting projects made by members of both guilds.
Our work reflects the potential of an excellent community
We’re rolling into 2022 and it seems like people were just complaining about the horror show 2020 was for them just yesterday. I hope for those folks, 2021 was an improvement and 2022 is even better.
Brockton Mayor’s Message
2021 has been a year of great change, challenge and triumph in Brockton.
Local newspapers tell the whole story
ach Wednesday as a kid was exciting. That was the day that the Palmerston Observer was delivered.
The Omicron effect
In two days, it is Christmas and I was in a hospital bed from Nov. 16 to Dec. 16 while the medical team here is trying to find out why I have dermatomyositis (DM), a very bad autoimmune disease.
Local students successful in Remembrance Contest
Certificates, medals and prize money were delivered to seven area schools for this year’s Remembrance Poster and Literary Contest. There was a total of 324 entries. Students from St. Teresa of Calcutta received four first place awards: Olivia Lamont for Junior Colour Poster, Declan Taylor for Interm
The story behind the Christmas story
The Christmas story from the perspective of the Christian tradition is that God’s son came to earth, born as a baby in Bethlehem’s manger. We associate gift giving then with Jesus the greatest gift of all.
