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Bob’s Meanderings: The Valley is Hillbilly Heaven

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While working in Toronto and if I mentioned that I came from the Ottawa Valley, often someone would say, “You’re a Hillbilly” or “You...

Bob’s Meanderings: False Alarm

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It was late Saturday afternoon, April 30th and I was having a nap. I had been raking the lawn earlier in the day. Maybe...

Bob has Slowed Down

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I received a phone call from a Social Club member the other day about elections for the new year beginning in September. He wanted...

Living on an island during the 2019 flood

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By Phil Cottrell Resident of Westmeath, Ontario As life starts to return to normal, or some resemblance of normal and as we try and catch up with...

Alex Got Lost: Finding Garbage, Environment and the Misconception of Personal Responsibility

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Alexander Leach, Editor-In-Chief Though I’ve been negligent in posting it, I love to find old garbage and wrecks in the woods. Growing up in the 90s...

Old friendships are always welcome — regardless of how long since you’ve seen them

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I read a most enlightening letter written by an American schoolgirl Samantha Smith to the attention of Russian President Yuri Andropov in 1982; a...

Bob’s Meandering on Compliments

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A curious thing happened at the WDRA’s big Party in the Park recently. As a member of this community group, I was to take...

Bob’s Meanderings: WD-40 is the Cure

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I’ve been bothered by a knee that aches every night when asleep. It wakes me up two or three times a night. I tried...

Alex Has Opinions: Conspiracies, Controversies, Complaints

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Alexander Leach: Editor Bob wrote his column on conspiracies last – those convoluted plots where everyone is lied to and controlled by sinister secret groups....

Alex Got Lost: Change Can Be Quick

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On a trip back along Highway 17, I chanced upon Perretton Road, recently renamed from a certain unfortunately-common slur for Indigenous people. The new...