Home » 2011 » February (Page 2)Posted by John Malloy on 02/16/2011
Sock-Monk-a-Thon Saturday, February 19th // 1:00-3:00pm Anyone can come – bring a friend, bring your grandma, just remember that children under 12 must have an adult present to assist them. This event is FREE and supplies/materials will be provided (but you can bring some funky socks if you want J) Finished sock monkeys will be donated (optional) [...]
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Photographs released last week of a tribe in southwest Brazil have put public attention on uncontacted people, of which about 100 are believed to exist. Those tribes, most of whom live in the Amazon, are often described as living fossils of Stone Age life, flash-frozen in time. Such descriptions are unfair: We don’t really know [...]
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My younger daughter got me thinking about the importance of anticipation to happiness. She is so very excited about her birthday tomorrow — she was literally jumping up and down with excitement at the prospect of her school celebration today. (I never knew that some people actually do jump up and down with excitement, but [...]
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Are you a middle-aged sibling struggling over caregiving issues that are a big sore point in your midlife family? Gail Sheehy in her new book Passages in Caregiving, strongly suggests having a family meeting over caregiving issues and offers some guidelines for midlife siblings seeking this tool. Sheehy proposes not involving the older family member [...]
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Considering that anxiety makes your palms sweat, your heart race, your stomach turn somersaults, and your brain seize up like a car with a busted transmission, it’s no wonder people reach for the Xanax to vanquish it. But in a surprise, researchers who study emotion regulation—how we cope, or fail to cope, with the daily [...]
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A PYLON is supposed to be a beautiful thing. In ancient Egypt, pairs of tapering stone towers called pylons marked the entrances of temples. Christian architects borrowed the idea for the twin towers above the façades of many Gothic cathedrals. Whoever thought of appropriating the word for the ugly metal-lattice structures that carry high-tension power [...]
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RRSP funds can literally be a “nest egg”: first-time home buyers can put up to $25,000 from RRSP accounts toward buying a home. Dont let the word “retirement” in Registered Retirement Savings Plan RRSP fool you, according to Ontario Chartered Accountants the enormously popular RRSP can be the key to becoming a homeowner or, in [...]
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Michael Gennings – Howard Noble, one of the region’s most respected businessmen, died on Tuesday, Feb. 8 after a long battle with cancer.He was 92. The family said in an obituary notice that Noble had prostate cancer a number of years ago and that it subsequently metastasized to his bones. Noble was the founder of [...]
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SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR CANADIAN VOICES, VOLUME THREE After the success of Canadian Voices, Volume One, ISBN 978-0-9784395-5-2, and Volume Two ISBN 978-0-9784395-8-3 we are now accepting submissions for Volume Three of the series. PROJECT: A Million Canadian Voices. PROJECT GOAL: To bring to the Canadian readers accessible literature from diverse voices of emerging Canadian writers. SUBMISSIONS: [...]
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Not for the demise of municipal committees, silly; Steve Assaff’s purchase of the former library property is certain to raise a few eyebrows amongst the local conspiracy theorists. Two theories presently going around (and possibly started by me): the original plan for Admiral Collingwood will be transferred to the former library site, where it will [...]
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The Rotary Club of Meaford is pleased to open nominations for Rotary’s 29th annual “Citizen of the Year” award. Sheila Carmichael was our recipient for the 2009 Award. Please submit your written nominations to The Rotary Club of Meaford, P.O. Box 3229, Meaford, Ontario N4L 1A5 or email your nominations to rickg14@bell.net by no later [...]
