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With the changing colours and cooler temperatures, now is the perfect time for a drive and game of Eye Spy, according to a media release from the City of Kawartha Lakes. From Sept. 4 to Oct. 31, spot the icon posted at one of 19 cultural locations across Kawartha Lakes and learn new details about some of the city’s oldest artefacts. 

Trillium Lakelands District School Board’s director of education, Wes Hahn, hopes to see students return to schools with recess, music and choir programs, open cafeterias and libraries and a full range of extracurriculars when school starts again this fall.

Back in the late summer of 2005, when I entered LCVI, I discovered that I had phys ed slotted into first period on my timetable. If the weather cooperated, we Grade 9 boys would often be trooped outside to run circuits on the enormous track immediately east of the Lindsay school.

Pinnguaq is gearing up for an exciting autumn of live programming and events, beginning with its Big Summer Hangout pop-up event on Aug. 28 from 10 am to 3 pm on the Kawartha Lakes Makerspace in Lindsay.

Sitting on the patio at his waterfront home in Fenelon Falls, Glen Wright can look across the lake to the site of the family cottage where he spent his youth. Built in the mid-1950s, his mother sold the cottage when he was 20, and despite leaving the area to pursue what turned out to be a very successful career, Four Mile Lake was never far from his memory, so he returned and built on the west shore.

At few other times in public discourse are more numbers floated for public consumption than at election time. There seem to be multiple polls outs out every day, sometimes telling conflicting stories. Politicians, as a part of their tried-and-true stump speeches, talk about millions and billions in election promises like pocket change.

It shouldn’t work.

Standup comedians have always been steadfast in the necessary surroundings to ply their art. Chief among that list: four walls and a ceiling – preferably a low one – and a small, sparse performance area.