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Zoom Playgroup: EarlyON continues to connect local families and offer support
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Zoom Playgroup: EarlyON continues to connect local families and offer support

Transitioning into parenthood can be isolating and difficult at the best of times. Reinforcement and relief from family and friends is often expected and can be an opportunity for reprieve sleep deprivation, but restrictions have made family and in-home support difficult. That's where EarlyON comes in. EarlyON program facilitators know from experience that being a great parent takes time and practice and that parents can learn from being around other parents. EarlyON centres offer free, high quality programs for families and children from birth to age six. Parents can get advice from professionals trained in early childhood development, find out about family services in the community, and connect with other families with young children.

May 17, 2021

Before the settlers came: Learning the Indigenous history of Kawartha Lakes
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Before the settlers came: Learning the Indigenous history of Kawartha Lakes

How do we tell the history of a people and a place when we have tried to erase that people from that place? The people I am referring to are the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg, the original people of what is most recently called Kawartha Lakes. How do we recount their history when most people don’t even know their name? Do we begin with the treaties, the official documents of 1818 and 1923 that the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg were forced to sign, ceding control of their land and later their hunting, fishing and gathering rights to the colonizers? Do we discuss how a people who did not consider the land something that could be “owned” or “sold” thought these were agreements to share the land peacefully, not agreements that relinquished their rights completely?

By Sylvia Keesmaat · May 17, 2021

Santosh Patel: Putting down roots in Kawartha Lakes
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Santosh Patel: Putting down roots in Kawartha Lakes

Lining Lindsay’s Victoria Avenue boulevard are 110 trees, all planted in 1997 when Lindsay was named a Green Streets Canada Community by the Tree Canada foundation. Of the six species chosen, some flower and fruit, some have fall colour, all are hardy, trouble-free and of modest size. Ideal choices for a town street. Ideal for my small backyard, too, I’m thinking, as replacement for a cankered dogwood. Sourcing the trees takes me to Santosh Patel, the owner of Rockwood Forest Nurseries, which is located roughly midway between Lindsay and Fenelon Falls and open April through November.

By Jamie Morris · May 15, 2021

Podcast Teaser: Balancing act is vital in journalism
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Podcast Teaser: Balancing act is vital in journalism

More than 30 years ago, when I was a young and green and still-a-very-much-learning-my-craft journalist in Ottawa, I was given some words of wisdom that, ever since, I’ve always strived to adhere to. “As a reporter, you can never be unbiased,” my good friend and a veteran of both print and broadcast media had warned me. His point was that we’re all human beings, not robots, and therefore have opinions – and that journalists have plenty of them. “But,” he stressed, “as a reporter you can, and must, always be fair.” It’s important, here, to make the distinction between a reporter and a columnist – the latter uses their space to espouse and expound on an opinion, which, if they’re doing their job properly, is still based on research and reason.

By Denis Grignon · May 12, 2021

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