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Road trip Portugal
Advocate designer puts magazines together while exploring European nation
Advocate graphic designer, Christina Dedes, put together two recent issues of the Advocate on the road, while travelling in Portugal.
Amy Terrill on broadcast memories, never doing things by halves, and finding her inner author
Lunch with Roderick Benns: Conversations with interesting people in Kawartha Lakes
As it turns out, Amy Terrill and I have a lot in common.
Remembering Flora McCrea Eaton
Just in Time local history series
One hundred years ago, in 1923, the famed (yet nearly bankrupt) financier Sir Henry Pellatt was forced to give up his beloved Casa Loma, in midtown Toronto.
Optimist Club hoping for a busy year with soccer for hundreds of kids
The Optimist Club, which has run recreational soccer in Lindsay for over three decades, is hoping the 2023 playing season will see more than 400 local youth suiting up to enjoy the so-called beautiful game.
Local women thriving in non-traditional roles
Trappers, golf pros, and tire and automotive repair
In the 2016 Census, male-dominated occupations in Ontario had less than a 5 per cent share from females.
New STEAM education, art and entrepreneurship centre launching in Lindsay
The Pinnguaq Association today announced the purchase of the former public works building located at 12 Peel Street in Lindsay, and the launch of renovations to create a world-class STEAM education and entrepreneurship centre.
Punching out
The good old days of prolific factory work in Kawartha Lakes were largely shuttered due to global forces
From the flour mills, sawmills, and woollen mills of the nineteenth century to the sprawling industrial complexes of the mid-twentieth century and beyond, factories have long provided steady jobs to local citizens.
