Naysayers constantly claim that commodity prices are due to decline, and in fact, have not climbed…
Columns
County firefighters prevented several conflagrations in summer of 1929
The increasing skills and training of Wellington County’s volunteer firefighters in the early…
Salem and Lot 18 assessment values caused political stir in 1930
From the time Elora was incorporated as a village in 1858, the relationship of that municipality to…
Three strikes, out!
This winter’s white stuff came down in unlimited drifts, and this spring’s clouds of…
Birthday candles
It’s my birthday and despite all efforts to the contrary, I’m growing up (I’m…
Back to work
The Ontario Legislature began a (sometimes sweltering) summer sitting on July 2, with the election…
Lucky 13
It was the early morning of Wednesday the 13th that I parked my butt on the lean-back office chair…
History repeating
Is history repeating itself? Is there a story not being told? Hear me out and I’m sure…
Time passes
I am under the impression that time passes more quickly as one gets older. It seems like only…
No bacon jokes
I couldn’t tell you about Halloween last week because, well, it hadn’t happened yet.…
Slap shot
The hockey boards are up in the backyard, Christmas lights are strung on poles high above, and my…
Ghoulish discovery of bodies in 1949 Mount Forest house fire
At about 10am on the morning of Friday, January 7, 1949 the Mount Forest volunteer fire brigade…
Ice cold
The Carpenter and I have been together a long time and, to his credit, he marks rather high on the…
Elora principal George Edgcumbe ended his career in disgrace
Members of Elora’s High School Board did not know much about George Edgcumbe when they hired…
Quast, Betty
Quast, Betty, nee Robinson. It was 20 past 12 noon on the sixth day of March. I was slumped in…