Looking back on it now, Pati Jansons says the day her boss said she was no longer needed was the day she was set free. A legal assistant for a local law firm, Pati’s interest in law centres around organization, systems, and support. She’s also got alot of energy, a fair bit of vision, and…
C’mon. Read it. Whaddya mean, you can’t? If you wanted to badly enough, you sure could. Just, read it. They keep it secret, but hundreds of adults in this region are getting through life without the ability to read. And while Canada’s literacy champion was the CBC’s Peter Gzowski, Barrie has its own literacy icon….
I remember well begging the City Editor of the Belleville Intelligencer to let me volunteer in the newsroom my summer between the end of high school and the start of university. My grandparents lived in Belleville and I figured I could bunk in there, work hard and learn lots and then head into Journalism. The…
When Linda Hunt won her court case against her employer and a Barrie pub, party time changed forever. This precedent-setting court decision assigned responsibility for Linda’s alcohol impairment and subsequent accident to her employer and to the pub. The case received much national and international media coverage because of its implications and lots has been…
It’s Christmas in June. That’s how I’m feeling this week since I received a Christmas treasure that will now become an heirloom. And with the heirloom will go the story. A little background… Some of you might remember last Christmas when I headed out, sans famille, to carry out what is for me an important…
Scott Maxwell has spent his whole life in retail. He’s a team kind of guy, good at motivating others, managing time, and dealing with hundreds of thousands of items. He was the assistant manager for Canadian Tire in Orillia. And, with his steady grin and quiet demeanor he managed to muscle people, items, and cash…
She wore glasses. She had an incredibly wrinkled face, filled with laughter and love of life. Before you saw her face, you saw her long, red fingernails. She boomed her enthusiasm and exhorted her expectations. She put her energy behind her words. She loved. She healed. She grieved. She experienced grief. And this spring when…
They say the most intimate relationship a woman has is with her daughter, and the one with her own mother. It makes sense if you think about it because only a daughter has the potential to truly identify with that feeling of life within you, and shared birth experience. And if that’s true, then the…
A new spa in town • Relieve everyday stress • Whirlpool, In-frared saunas, tanning beds, massage therapy, esthetics • Glacier Spa Center Alcona Tree Service • We specialize in pruning, trimming, removals, stump grinding, shrub & hedge trimming, portable saw mill Pets are People Too • The Pet Spa • Professional Grooming in Innisfil. Fine…
It was March, 1973 and as editor of The Banner I was “laying out” the news. In those days offset press was revolutionizing newspaper production and instead of setting rows of lead type into steel forms, we were putting wax on the back of paper columns of print and “sticking” them down to heavier which…