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Get hooked on fishing at the library

Attention all anglers and fishing enthusiasts! The fishing season is here, and whether you’re a seasoned pro or just dipping your toes into the...

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For The Expositor

Lasso your tickets for St. John’s 'Country Legends Tribute Show'

Howdy! Many of you know me as a big band, Broadway baby… which is true and I will confess, I am not a big country and western music fan, per se,...

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Laurel Beechey

A Scribe's Musings: Spectacular art at West Lorne show

Library branch transformed into temporary art gallery during April 11 to April 25 showcase The West Lorne Library is currently hosting an art...

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Larry Schneider

ASK THE MONEY LADY: Paying taxes as a U.S. citizen living in Canada

Dear Money Lady: My wife is one of those U.S. residents who has lived in Canada as a permanent resident since 1968 and never filed a U.S. tax...

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Christine Ibbotson

True gentlemen still exist

Gentleman seems a quaint word in a world where if you open a door for a ferociously independent woman you are apt to get a frosty nod. It’s just...

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Gord Christmas

ROBINET: Bit of a DCC ‘hubdate’

On a recent Sunday morning as I stared at my blank computer screen pondering what to write about, I decided to seek inspiration within the pages of...

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Karen Robinet

LEGAL RIGHTS BULLETIN: How to be an intersectionality ally

The term “intersectionality” was coined by Kimberly Crenshaw, a law professor at Columbia and UCLA, over 30 years ago.   In her 1991 article...

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Guest Column

The Businesses of West Elgin: West Elgin Women in Business

Collaboratively caring . . .  for themselves and each other! When we humans embark on any new enterprise, we benefit immensely from having someone...

19.04.2024 1

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Larry Schneider

The mysterious planet Mercury

Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system, is a world of extremes and contradictions. A desolate, crater-scarred rock hurtling...

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Tim Philp

Reflections: Mitchell's 'Old Boys and Girls Reunion'

A grand celebration was held in 1923 to mark the 50th anniversary of Mitchell becoming a town Mitchell was declared to be a town via an 1873...

19.04.2024 1

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Betty Jo Belton

GARDEN CLIPPINGS: The right mulch for your backyard

Four cubic yards of mulch in the backyard and one more to go. Four cubic yards of mulch in the backyard and one more to go. Last week’s nice...

18.04.2024 4

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John Degroot

RHODES: Garner Hotel offered prime retail space at street level

When John and Isobel Garner built the Garner Hotel (in stages) they allowed for prime retail rental space at the King Street front.   This was a...

18.04.2024 3

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John Rhodes

Eric Bunnell's People: The first cherry blossoms of spring

The trees were donated to St. Thomas as part of the Sakura Project So, no sooner was the ink dry on last week’s entry that Jeff Bray, the city...

18.04.2024 4

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Eric Bunnell

WALLACEBURG ARTS: A problem only a real theatre would solve

There are many topics for me to write about other than the Wallaceburg Concert Band, but having just completed a concert on April 13, I have...

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Dave Babbitt

Streets of Stratford: Mayberry Place

Beloved educator inspired hundreds of students at Stratford Collegiate Institute Charles Alexander “Cam” Mayberry was principal of the...

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Paul Wilker And Gord Conroy

Food for Thought: Chatham-Kent a top Ontario asparagus producer

Food for Thought: Chatham-Kent a top Ontario asparagus producer Asparagus will soon be here, one of our first harvested field crops. Many people...

17.04.2024 4

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Kim Cooper

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