Trump and … Bruce County
I met a resident on High Street in Southampton recently. He is a reader of the Saugeen Times. He asked me if I had...
Serendipity – a strange thing
Serendipity is a strange thing and the word itself has been deemed one of the 10 most difficult English words to translate.
It can mean...
A SENIOR MOMENT – “FAREWELL TO WELFARE?”
On July 31, the Ontario Government announced it would be scrapping the Guaranteed Basic Income program (G.B.I) which had been implemented on a trial...
Residents voice concerns and raise petition
To the Editor:
On August 20th, a second hearing will be held at Town Council to decide if the new Unifor parking lot will be...
A Senior Moment – “LOOK AT ME!”
“Grandpa, Look at me put my head under water.”
“Grandma, watch what I can do on my rope swing”
“Grandpa, come and see me hit the...
Procedural By-law against Charter of Rights says reader
Council has successfully preserved its destruction of Democracy in Saugeen Shores.
Procedural rule 14.11 provides:
“A delegation, once heard, shall not be entitled to be...
Education Minister praises Indigenous students’ presentation on Residential Schools then axes new curriculum
On Sunday last (July 8th), my partner and I were attending a Truth and Reconciliation Dinner at a church in Southampton. We found ourselves...
“You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”
Dear Editor:
What a shame! In the name of progress, we are losing a bit more of our green space and natural ecological habitat! This...
A Senior Moment: ‘Us and Them’
“---we have a national identity, we are proud of it, you come into this country you have to integrate, you have to learn our...
A Senior Moment: ‘The Other’
Along with several grade two classmates, I would eagerly escape our public elementary school promptly at 3:30.
Once off the property on one particular afternoon,...
A Senior Moment: ‘A Perfect Gift’
It’s not that I never appreciated having breakfast in bed on Father’s Day. Other years, I happily accepted those carefully chosen ties or socks....
A Senior Moment: ‘The Other Kennedy’
June 5th will mark the 50th anniversary of the violent death of Bobby Kennedy, a presidential candidate felled by Sirhan Sirhan’s bullet at the...
A Senior Moment: ‘Who Am I?’
Earlier this month I found myself back in high school. It was just after Mental Health Week in Ontario and I had been invited...
Principal Dan Russell leaves a legacy
With only four years until retirement, Russell is moving on to Alexandra Community School in Owen Sound, which is near his home.
It will however,...
