Editor's Notebook
Kincardine's rock star
Time has been kind to Blinky.
Indeed, the beacon mascot has grown into a cult figure for the younger set.
I noticed some two-year-olds Saturday evening as the Mass Band went by. Their faces lit up in wonder and amazement as Blinky approached. It’s a phenomenon I’ve noticed a number of times this summer.
Babies treat the mini-lighthouse as if it were some kind of rock star. The band the babies put up with; Blinky makes them salivate.
Strange when you consider Blinky’s chequered past.
Who will remember?
I found the sound of the helicopter early last Tuesday morning upsetting.
The helicopter was searching for the body of a 16-year-old exchange student who disappeared in the rough waters of
From the comments I heard after the drowning, many in the community were upset that a young teenager, only two days in our community, should die such a senseless death. They empathized with the parents of Oksana Milovanovic and her host family in Kincardine.
From the Editor's notebook
Ten years ago, I would have been surprised at the news that there are applications for wind farms in
If oil companies believe there is oil under the lake, you’ll see derricks out there too.
Western society has bought into globalization and the
The bishop who ate his boots
Ken and Nancy Thomson and Bill and Linda McTavish of Kincardine, just returned home following a long trip to the
Ken and Bill were surprised to find a sign in Dawson City, Yukon, honouring Isaac O. Stringer of Kincardine, Ont., - the bishop who ate his boots.
No back seat driving
The last place I expected to be Thursday morning was putt-putting along above the lakeshore in Huron township in a 1946 Piper Cub.
Garry Shepherd who operates an airstrip at the south-east corner of
Since Barb was unable to be at work Thursday, I was asked to go.
Half and hour later we were in the air – with a little difficulty.
The big picture
People don’t seem to get the big picture.
Every time a new wind farm is announced, the people directly affected fight it. Everyone else sits on the sidelines and watches.
Either people don’t really care if the wind turbines come or they’re not paying attention to what’s going on around them.
If people really cared or if they were paying attention, they would have come to the aid of the first group that fought the turbines in the
Dreams
Everyone needs a dream – including MS patients and their families.
Harvey McLeod, as you can read elsewhere in this paper, is pushing for liberation therapy in this country to give his daughter a chance at a better life.
Although many neurologists say liberation therapy (basically angioplasty in the neck veins), is a fad, many MS patients don’t think so. They’re going overseas to have the operation. Many of them are seeing an improvement in their health.
According to the Sunday Star, a patient revolt is underway. MS patients want the procedure to be available in
Being earnest
Following the Kincardine Scottish concert in the park Saturday night, Dana and I ran into one of her former students.
Casey Cerson, who grew up in Bervie, is a piper with the Air Command Pipes and Drums in
However, Cerson was here and he played the solo part of Amazing Grace in the park.
20-hour nightmare
After the weekend activities in
And how, pray tell, were the “anarchists” able to burn a cop car and break windows downtown with all those cops around?
Well, I have the answer to that cop car question.
Meaghan Daniel, a graduate of KDSS, and now a lawyer at Klippensteins in
The "fall guys"
Women must have broad shoulders these days.
They have become the “fall guys” whenever something goes wrong in the world.
What are the poor soccer keepers of the World Cup supposed to do? Find ugly girlfriends?
If they did, then their countrymen would say the goalkeeper would have played better if his girl friend was of beauty queen material.