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Laurel BeecheyFort McMurray Today |
In 1881, Edwin Delevan Tillson began to build a farmhouse for retirement in Tillsonburg, leaving the running of his milling empire to his sons. ...
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,...
What makes a Theatre Tillsonburg cast and crew special? It isn’t that everything runs perfectly – that never happens in live theatre. It is...
I have a terrible problem with the Oxford County Library, Tillsonburg Branch web pages. Once I go on the site, I am on there for hours, all excited by...
The Tillsonburg Military Club is honoured to bring Ted Barris back again on Friday, April 19 at the Tillsonburg Legion. His topic will be...
Over 40 years ago, I started rehabilitating wildlife when I found two baby squirrels in the middle of Rolph Street on my way to a Theatre Tillsonburg...
You want to do something to help the homeless, the hungry, or to research heart disease or cancer, but there are so many people, animals and charities...
The gauntlet has been flung down in Tillsonburg! Will you dare to pick it up? Nay, ‘tis not a duel at twenty paces with dueling pistols,...
Save the Science Centre? Our very own Premier Doug Ford would like to move it to Ontario Place, so the land it is on can be developed. ...
Music soothes the savage beast. It can be romantic, incredibly sad or irritating. It can be jumpy and joyous. Poetry is much the same, making...
Prince Edward Island, although our smallest province, once stood up for themselves to stop littering/trash and save jobs at the Pepsi bottle factory. ...
The tall, prominent tombstone that today seemingly stands alone near the high edge of the Tillsonburg Pioneer Graveyard on the Simcoe Street hill was...
Theatre Tillsonburg’s presentation of Dan Goggin’s Nunsense will chase away your cares and winter blues. It all started started with a line of...
Do you still feel the joy of Christmas? Have you ever read Keeping Christmas by Henry Van Dyke? What struck me most about this little missive,...
The year is 1933, the First World War is over. By the mid to late 1920s, the Spanish Flu had died out and life and theatre were roaring… until the...
Time to start 2024 on a fun track. Although Theatre Tillsonburg’s February musical Nunsense, Feb. 8-11 and 15-18, hasn’t gone on yet, there is...
A friend sent me one of those ‘remember when’ emails recently which I always enjoy. This one was for those who graduated from high school in the...
Thanks to those who asked for more of Ron Turner’s poems at Christmas time. The first is Dad’s Christmas Wish from 1975, perhaps more...
November 25 was an auspicious day when the past met the present right here in Tillsonburg. It started in Enfield, Massachusetts, 241 years ago...
If you are interested in Christmas concerts and events in Tillsonburg, I hope you are free this weekend! You are going to need sustenance to get...
I find it on my heart to write about Lola, although by the time you read this, I pray the terrible ordeal she and her family have gone through will be...
Two topics this week. First, my apologies to St. Mary’s Church Tillsonburg, for mistaking your rummage sale in October as an early bazaar. St....
Marguerite Sinclair was born in Tillsonburg in December, 1883, with a great pedigree. Her parents were Catherine Marilla Tillson and Dr. Lachlan...
Say the word bazaar and my brain goes to the Middle East with row of stalls, exotic silks, spices and food. Not quite the same in Canada! Our...
Theatre Tillsonburg’s 40th season, starting Nov. 2, will bring you comedies, romance, heart touching moments and a musical comedy! Buy season...
Who was Elizabeth Darrow, dead at 26 years, residing in our Tillsonburg Pioneer Graveyard? Amazingly, her history has been researched by the...
Even a man who is pure at heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon shines bright, wrote ...
A wonderful woman named Brenda rescued a baby squirrel she named Daniel. After many phone calls, she found me. A day or so later she got in touch...
The Parliament of Canada has designated Sept. 28 to honour the British Home Child (BHC). Not one, but over 100,000 British children were sent to...
The Royal Canadian Legion 153 in Tillsonburg serves our military and RCMP members and families as well as our communities and country. What we know...
Are you looking for ABBA Tribute Night tickets on Nov. 4 at St. John’s Anglican Church in Tillsonburg? Please call the church office at...