The members of the Strait Richmond Palliative Care
Society wish to acknowledge and thank the frontline health care workers in our
region during this trying time of the COVID–19 pandemic.
These include doctors, nurses, paramedics and...
The little outboard motorboat sped across the waters of Lennox Passage toward a small treeless island about three kilometres from where we launched.
In case you are not sure, Lennox Passage is the long, narrow body of water that separates...
After months and years of
negative news stories, Richmond County residents were treated to some good news
recently.
The most recent came from
the triumphs of local minor baseball teams.
At the 11 and...
One of my all-time favourite singers and songwriters passed away
not long ago, so I’m writing this column while my emotions are still raw and
bubbling just beneath the surface.
That seems only appropriate when writing...
So, after spending over seven years in a self-imposed absence from community theatre, I suddenly found myself performing in three different plays in as many counties this spring.
Regular readers of this column might recall that I recently served as...
A disclaimer: I have never read Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series, nor have I seen the Charlottetown festival’s long-running musical version.
Now that some of you have already begun the arrangements for my deportation from Canada (or...
Cathy and I have enjoyed CBC-TV’s comedy-in-a-small-town series Still Standing for quite awhile now, but we’ve never looked forward to an episode quite as much as the late-November edition saluting the community of Canso.
That’s partly because each of us...
The Richmond County Literacy Network (RCLN) has established credible relations with community stakeholders and service providers and has a track record of spearheading new projects and initiatives over its 19 years in operation.
Over the past few years, several Richmond...
Although it’s not a store I visited frequently, I felt a pang of regret when Sears filed for bankruptcy, and that pain worsens around the Christmas season.
It’s not that it wasn’t expected. The company had suffered a long and...
Six o’clock in the morning on the streets of Venice, Italy, a strange sound coming behind me caught my attention. A man marching, carrying and playing some sort of bagpipe came into view. Under his arm, a large inflated...