A Remembrance Day Message From Your MPP
Written By Steve PinsonneaultM.P.P. – Lambton—Kent—Middlesex On Remembrance Day, we pause to honour the brave Canadians who served our country and those who made the ultimate sacrifice in defence of…
A Remembrance Day Message From Your MP
Written By Lianne Rood,M.P. – Middlesex—Lambton The freedoms that Canadians experience daily, came at a price.November 11th is the day we stop and thank those who put on a Canadian…
The Colour Green
Written By Mary Nunn, Strathroy Working Artist, Educator & Mentor Green is a secondary colour mixed from two primaries, Blue and Yellow. There are naturally occurring green pigments: In paints,…
Golden Memories of Halloween
Written By John Caverhill ‘Black and gold,black and gold,Black and gold tonight!Yellow pumpkins,yellow moon,Yellow candlelight.’ When I was a young kid, Hallowe’en was one of the most exciting days in…
The Colour Yellow
Written By Mary Nunn, Strathroy Working Artist, Educator & Mentor A primary colour, the compliment is Violet, a mixture of blue and red. Yellow is the lightest in value; lemon…
Bear Creek, Nature’s School
Written By John Caverhill I started public school each fall with two new pairs of overalls, the standard garb for most farm boys back in the 1940s. Mom’s hope, seldom…
Understanding the Cost of Tariffs
Written By Ian Nunn Investopedia defines a tariff as “a tax imposed by one country on the goods and services (hereafter just ‘goods’) imported from another country”. The tax is…
Stories of Bear Creek School
Written By John Caverhill School Section #7 Lobo Township aka Bear Creek Public School: architecturally speaking its design was utilitarian; a rectangular wooden box with a peaked roof enclosed a…
Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Appreciation: Know the Difference!
Is it considered cultural appropriation for a non- Indigenous person to buy a piece of Indigenous art or wear Indigenous clothing?National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is an excellent time…
A Day Highlighting the Need to Give Voice to Indigenous Communities
September 30 marks National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. This event was established in 2021 by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission following its work from 2008 to 2015.…
The Colour BlueA primary colour, the complement is Orange, a mixture of yellow & red
Written By Mary Nunn, Strathroy Working Artist, Educator & Mentor Blue is a cool colour, swimming pools are a blue/green, try and imagine diving into a red pool? In the…
Another Piece of Pie
Written By John Caverhill “Let’s have another cup of coffee;Let’s have another piece of pie.” Those words from a popular depression-era song reflected the hopelessness of those times when one…
My Search for Circus Man(Part III)
Written By Donna Costa Mons-Natalie was a stage name. I presumed it was my great-grandfather, William Beilstein, but circus history sites have no record of Natalie’s true name on any…
The Queen of the Harvest
Written By John Caverhill A few weeks ago, I took a trip in time at three-quarters of a century, and I did it not by time machine but by car,…
Square-Peg-Round-Hole Syndrome
Written By Jillean McClory, The London Writers Society (LWS) Have you hit stop lately? Taken a breath for fun or self-care? Or are you too busy trying to fit a…
My Search for Circus Man(Part II)
Written By Donna Costa My search was about to die when I returned to the letter William had penned to his sister in 1890:“I have come to Chicago again to…
When Everything Changed: Serialized Fiction Part 1 of 8
Written By Brad Harness I recall when I was talking with my grandson. His mother had dropped him off at my condo and the boy was eager to do something…
Interesting facts about… The Moon
Written By John Bradley The Moon is Earth’s only permanent natural satellite. It is the fifth largest natural satellite in the Solar System, and the largest among planetary satellites relative…
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I’m 67 years old—a stone-cold hard fact I sometimes can’t get my mind around. In a time, not so long ago, I was young. I took my youth…
The Colour Red
Written By Mary Nunn, Strathroy Working Artist, Educator & Mentor Red is a primary colour; its compliment is green, a mixture of the other two primary colours, yellow and blue.…
Haying in the ‘Good Old Days’
Written By John Caverhill Hay cutting started around the last week in June just as the summer holidays began. The term ‘holidays’ was definitely euphemistic because some of the hardest…
Neither Emily nor AI have used up all the em dashes
Written By Krista Carson, The London Writers Society (LWS) At the gym—that silent disco—or in the grocery linewhen you forget the yogurtbut think of all seventeen waysspiders are like stars&…
Diamonds No Longer Rough
Written By John Caverhill Through the mid-1950s many local softball/fastball diamonds were constructed. Being much smaller than hardball diamonds made them much more affordable, especially in rural communities, and graded…
Some Thoughts on Turning Ninety
Written By John Caverhill For the past while, I have been basking in the warmth of birthday greetings from family and friends, and let me tell you, all the money…
Book Review: The Salt Man by Anne Kay
The captivating story of Scottish immigrant Peter McEwan who, in his quest for adventure, made a discovery that shaped the future of Southwestern Ontario Written By The LWS Book Club…
It is I, Not You
Written By John Caverhill It is I, not you, that is writing these columns. So, it is ultimately my responsibility to be sure each article is free of errors. I…
Diamonds in the Rough
Written By John Caverhill “In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” In the case of an old man (me) memories of activities on the…
Me and Flo: A Poet and an Artist Collaborating Across Centuries
Written By Emily De Angelis, The London Writers Society (LWS) I was introduced to the work of Canadian painter Florence Carlyle in 2019 on my first visit to the Woodstock…
Driving Old Casey
Written By John Caverhill It was a late May day in 1948 and I had just turned twelve years old. Dad met me as I got home from school and…