2012 Comhaltas Tour of North America: Ireland’s best to perform at the Shannon Community Centre
For over three decades Comhaltas (pronounced Cole-tiss) concert tours have performed at various centres around the globe. These concerts have been a consistent link between Ireland, the Irish Diaspora and …
Walk, run or do push-ups for breast cancer
When Paul Hinton and Marsha Murdock approached fellow staff members and students of the Central Québec School Board to join the annual CIBC Run for the Cure, several people were …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1862 The Morning Chronicle This is the season when the foliage, kissed by the frost, lends a blush to the face of nature. Between four and five o’clock yesterday afternoon, …
The kindness of strangers . . . 40 years ago
On Sunday February 27, 1972, my life was saved by some kind strangers in your area and I request your help in finding these people so that I can properly …
Mount Wright: a Will to remember
I enjoyed the recent article by Juanita Craig concerning Mont Wright with the lovely photographs. It brought back pleasant memories. On June 22, 1972, I attended upon Sydney Wright in …
Québec en Forme in our community
(Press release) The Voice of English-speaking Quebec (VEQ) is proud to announce a new partnership with Québec en Forme whose purpose is to promote healthy eating habits and a physically-active …
Start of production of Still Life for CBC Television
PDM Entertainment and Attraction Images in association with CBC announced recently that principal photography has begun on Still Life, a two-hour TV movie for CBC, based on the first of …
The Penny People . . .
While I was at the library of the Morrin Centre this past week, three ladies walked in, eyes raised in awe as they looked around the room, drinking in the …
How Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving across the border
We all know that Thanksgiving is a very popular holiday in our neighbouring country to the south, the United States of America, but how do Canadians living abroad celebrate this …
Oscar buzz for The Master
The Master, which hit theatres on September 28, is a tale told by writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood) and set in America’s post-World …