- by Dennis Thompsett
The Okeepenokee is like an enchanted little country, just outside the city. If you take 20th Street on the East Hill and head towards Meaford, past Pittsburg and the other stuff out there, you will come to a T- junction. Right will take you to the Meaford Highway. If you go left, past one country road you will come to the brow of a steep hill. Go down that Hill and suddenly you are on a friendly old country road with two bald ruts for wheels and grass in the middle. At this point you have entered the enchanted land known as the Okeepenoke.
- by Phil McNichol
It may have been August 30 when I first saw the new ‘park boundary’ and ‘no hunting’ signs posted on both sides of Cathedral Drive north of my property at the end of the ‘No Exit’ gravel road. I’d been away on a long trip and took a couple of days to rest up at home before going up that way with the tractor.
My first thought was the signs might have something to do with a possible out-of-court, negotiated settlement of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON) land and water claim
- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
Besides the hard-to-miss 150 people politely standing well apart from the celebrations with a message for the Premier about health care privatization, farmland destruction and Greenbelt scandals, we noticed the following:
When I am getting up in the dark or in the early dawn light, the cat will complain a little. A small sound.
There are a couple of bathroom errands with the swish of a hairbrush, the soft clink of a bamboo toothbrush on pottery.
As I head toward the kitchen, the whirring of the hepa filter catches my attention. I turn it off.
Silence. A warm, dark silence ...
Protesters of all stripes – young veterans and newbie pensioners alike – came to Markdale Thursday to let Ontario's Premier know how they feel ...
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