On Sunday, May 24, 1970, 50 years ago this month, Manitoba experienced its very own Woodstock. Billed as the Niverville Pop Festival, the event was staged in a farmer’s field…Continue readingWoodstock, Manitoba style
By Adam Glynn In over a decade of working in broadcasting I never thought I’d have a commute of only 10 steps, or a dress code which permits me to…Continue readingNotes from the bridge
By Helen Harper Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. was born in Orillia, Ont. in 1938. This “Canadian National Treasure” is credited with helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and…Continue readingGordon Lightfoot
My pre-retirement life involved working in health care as a nurse manager in Burns, Plastics, and Head and Neck Oncology, and lastly, as a Director of Care in a long…Continue readingSusan Earl shares her background
In 1960, Pollyanna, the movie, came out. It was about a 12-year-old orphan daughter of missionaries who arrives in a small town to live with her rich and strict aunt.…Continue readingPollyanna’s “Glad Game”
Peggy Prendergast There is an old saying “There is nothing new under the sun.” The Spanish flu pandemic that ravaged the world a century ago took the life of my…Continue readingWe are in this together
