I frequently compare our 14 year old black lab to my father in law. Now, on the surface that sounds like a real insult, and I can understand if you turn the page. But give me one more paragraph, if you would. My beloved father in law, Nick, passed away two years ago. Now and…
When Nancy Arnold died suddenly, close to Mother’s Day, her family held her hands and encouraged her to take this next step. “Go! Go to the angels!” Faced with a long wait for heart surgery, while her mind was willing, her body was not. Nancy went, truly in the arms of an angel, and her…
Put a hand out. Extend it to help someone else make the climb. That’s the caring philosophy that brought Scott and Jennifer Gingrich to develop their quarterly Website Giveaway. The couple, owners of Piggybank Technology and a couple of other web-based businesses, got tired of listening to the doom and gloom that blasts into our…
It’s the ultimate gift, really. To willingly remove an organ from your own body, and have it placed in the body of another person so that their life can be as normal as yours. It’s the ultimate gift that any parent would give a child, or most siblings would give each other. But when Dorothy…
Put a hand out. Extend it to help someone else make the climb. That’s the caring philosophy that brought Scott and Jennifer Gingrich to develop their quarterly Website Giveaway. The couple, owners of Piggybank Technology and a couple of other web-based businesses, got tired of listening to the doom and gloom that blasts into our…
In July, when Taryn Coo walks down the aisle to marry her sweetheart, she will spend time with family and friends as they launch her on her journey. With her in spirit will be her grandmother, Sheila Coo. Tucked under Sheila’s bed, all wrapped up and ready, card included, is Taryn’s wedding gift. Because Sheila…
Right now I have the presence of two organic farmers in one of my business groups. My ‘clients’ cover just about the entire business spectrum as pro-active individuals who are starting and growing businesses. These two women and their husbands take ‘growing a business’ to a new level! We got talking on Tuesday night about…
So much is written about mothers on this second Sunday in May. I just finished reading a long article in Zoomer Magazine (yes! I’m so over Zoomer, I recently bought my first seniors ski ticket!) about a man’s connectness to his mother. Is it obligatory or is it sentiment? I’m watching two young women as…
It’s a front page story… young mother killed in firey crash after oncoming vehicle swerves into her lane…impaired driver. Or, newly retired grandfather hit head on by impaired driver coming against traffic on multi-lane divided highway. Or, high school valedictorian headed to graduation hit head on by impaired driver with several convictions. We read the…
When Simcoe County Co-operative store, a rural mainstay on Innisfil St for three decades, closed its doors last August, it was another nail in our retail coffin. Gone, overnight it seemed, with manager Barry Leigh, a 30 year veteran and manager with the store, out of work like everyone else. Barry negotiated an eight hour…