Getting Jabbed in Chatham-KentYesterday, I joined Team Moderna, receiving my first dose of the Covid-19 Vaccine. As much as I wanted to get the vaccination, I will admit to a little anxiety between my needle phobia and the unknowns of a relatively new vaccine. In...

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Chatham-Kent: Kid’s Flag Football League Founder Draws A WTF Municipal Response
Sometimes The Municipality of Chatham-Kent Boggles the MindYou can picture it, can’t you? Somewhere deep in the heart of the Chatham-Kent Civic Centre a young intern rushes down the carpeted aisle between rows and rows of cubicles. He wrenches open a closed door...
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...