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The Baby Was Four Months Old When We Took Him To Italy
Taking Him to Italy was the Right CallFour-month-old Liam had arrived in Italy with his parents, Chad and Susie, who are professors at different small midwest U.S. universities. About ten years ago Susie had the opportunity to teach in Italy and Chad had decided that...
Chatham-Kent: It Is Time to Save Our Dwindling Woodland
Municipal Council Could Protect our Woodland if They Wished It’s not exactly a local badge of honor for Chatham-Kent that people traveling along the 401 between Tilbury and Highgate are in the middle of the single most deforested municipality in all of Ontario. Today,...
John T. Howard: Engineering Basically Had a Cow!
Even Cable TV Networks Need Cable Installed Most of the human creations we see in the world around us are the results of people who work behind the scenes. The movies we watch are the final product of gigantic masses of people, most of whom never appear on the...
An Audience With The Queen Of All Media
Sam's Journey to Meet The Queen of All MediaSam East, a Toronto radio DJ, was just minutes away from conducting her first interview on National TV. To add to the stress, the person she was going to talk with was none other than the Queen of all Media, Oprah Winfrey. ...
The Death of Catbird Red Over Wallaceburg
An Airplane Crash Brings the Cold War to Wallaceburg, Ontario.As a new decade dawned in the 1950s, the immediate aftermath of World War II had led to new conflicts between recent allies. The United States and the Soviet Union, the world’s two remaining superpowers,...
Chatham-Kent: Council’s Private Discussions About Purchasing The Mall Is Not Leadership
"Why" Shouldn't Be A Secret in Chatham-Kent Here we are again: Another tempest in a tea-pot because of Chatham-Kent’s ham-handed way of handling potentially controversial issues. As reported in the Chatham Daily News, Councilor Trevor Thompson has spilled the beans...
In A Covid-19 Ward, All a Patient Sees are Eyeballs
On the Front Lines of the Covid-19 BattleCathi is a nurse who works on a Covid-19 Ward in a smaller Michigan hospital that normally has 300 beds. With the world facing the Covid-19 crisis, she is on the front lines of the battle to save lives, a battle that is lost...
Brian Knowler: The Police Officer Who Won’t Let PTSD Win
A Desire to HelpWhen we are kids, we often idolize the “helpers” around us. Firefighters, police, and soldiers tend to loom larger than life in the eyes of many kids, and some spend at least a part of their childhood pretending to be one of them. Sometimes those...