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Chatham-Kent: Kid’s Flag Football League Founder Draws A WTF Municipal Response
If you drive by Lark Park you soon begin to see just how stupid this kerfuffle is. The park is grass. Not wildflowers, not protected prairie, not hidden wetland. It is just a huge dandelion- filled lawn. Jason cuts two bits of it lower than the Municipality does (when it bothers to do it at all). This is a crucial point: he only cuts it in the area where the kids are playing. That is one or two rectangles that are each 40 yards wide by 100 yards long. And they are not even located on the disused soccer field. Two rectangles. 40×100.
Bully No More: Jeff Veley’s Mission to Curb Social Aggression in Schools
The Bully Was a Constant in LifeAt 33 years old, Jeff Veley is an internationally awarded and recognized speaker and trainer in the war against bullying. “We’ve been on this 20- plus- year war on bullying,” he states. You look at the origin of the anti-bullying...
Face Palm: Local Media Thinks The Municipality Of Chatham-Kent Not Spending Our Tax Dollars With Them Is The Real Story?
Missing The Point in Chatham-KentOne component of a healthy community is having a robust media with the resources and will to ask the tough questions and demand answers from local government. This is a component that Chatham-Kent sorely lacks. It was with great...
Video Games, Movies and Nuclear Reactors: A Winding Trail To the USS Abraham Lincoln
The USS Abraham Lincoln Wasn’t On The RadarIn January 2009, about a year after his high school graduation, Jack Ferris began what would become a 12-year career in the United States Navy. During that time, he would serve aboard two of the newest aircraft carriers in...
Being a Foodie Brings Adventure, Fun, and Maybe the Gonads of a Sea Urchin
What makes a Foodie?Do you remember your last really fantastic, exceptional, and amazing meal? Marge and Dean do, but that's what you would expect from a couple of self-proclaimed foodies. Vacations and trips, for them, often involve seeking out new and different...
What The Heck Is That? Exploring A Few Great Lakes Shipwrecks
It's Cold. It's Dark. You're An Explorer In This Foreign PlaceOutside of the shipwreck diving community, it's not a very well-known fact that the Great Lakes hold some of the best-preserved shipwrecks in the world. Dusty Klifman is a diver who is working hard to...
Great Lakes Shipwrecks: An Underwater Visual Story
Great Lakes Shipwrecks Dusty Klifman was kind enough to supply more photos than we could use in the main article! They were so cool we thought they should be shared. We hope you enjoy them! If you somehow missed it, you can read about him and his love for Great...
From Tragedy to Tradition: The Gene Yang Gang
Born From Loss, The Gene Yang Gang Brings HealingThe train was making good time as it cruised through the Arizona desert past Picacho Peak. To the east and west, mountain peaks rose above the desert floor, casting shadows in the late afternoon sun. The crew watched...