My wife Brenda and best friend Pearl started walking in their middle years to try to control their weight gain, which was a side effect of aging in most women. They felt great about their nightly walks so it was logically a matter of time until they forced their dopey husbands Bob and me to [...]
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Les Kadar stays “abreast” of the music scene
August 28, 2011
While going through Bob Green’s book, “Eavesdroppings,” I came across a reference to a musician named “Les Kadar.” As Jan Ligget was on here recently trumpeting about her hubby’s skill as a musician, I thought I’d share Bob’s story with you. From Eavesdroppings” by Bob Green, available at Book Express and Cambridge Centre [...]
Zoom!
August 28, 2011
Zoom, zoom zoom! These words were in the commercial for a Japanese auto maker; it was a commercial I loved. See the sporty little car racing down the twisty rugged road, hugging the curves and looking ever so sleek. But I think there is a problem with the commercial with the infectious song. Like where [...]
Holly Woods & Toronto tonight in Cambridge
August 27, 2011
If you’re looking for trouble you can find it head on at the girl’s night out at The 515 Concert Club this Saturday. If you’re ready to make up you can even the score with a little assault and flattery. If you need some new romance you can get it on credit, as long [...]
Hespeler fed up with Galt elite
August 26, 2011
This is the column that started the war of words between Hags and I after it ran in the Reporter in March of 2002. The Hespeler Minor Hockey Association should resist at all costs joining with the Cambridge Minor Hockey Association. Hespeler should consider leaving Cambridge all together. We are fed up with being under [...]
Furnish the Future on the move in deadly storm
August 25, 2011
It was 5:00pm when we stopped our regular jobs and took a look at the sky which was blue in sight and no sign of a tornado that was being reported all day on August 24, 2011. Sandra Hill even called a Custom Broker in Sarnia to confirm that shipment was set to clear the [...]
A Day Like No Other
August 25, 2011
The day was a bright, sunny, warm day. It was a perfect day for going for an adventure for a young 12 year-old girl. I live in a small city of Galt, Ontario. It is now known as Cambridge. On this bright summer’s day, I decided that I wanted to go for a walk along [...]
The Freedom Of Music: Wood Holly?
August 24, 2011
The special invitation came via Facebook: I, Brian Gardiner, was personally invited to the the 515 Concert Club to see Holly Woods and Toronto: répondez s’il vous plaît. The 515! That’s just down the road in downtown Hespeler, a fifteen minute walk from my house. This, I thought, was going to require planning. First, I [...]
Art Attack!
August 22, 2011
There is art happening in Hespeler. That’s right, Hespeler. At great risk to life and limb, our young interns have traced the problem to its root. The problem, you see, is a painter named Jennifer Depencier, who doesn’t know the way it’s supposed to be. We heard rumours of her. We put [...]
A letter from Jack Layton (Left with his wife Olivia)
August 22, 2011
August 20, 2011 Toronto, Ontario Dear Friends, Tens of thousands of Canadians have written to me in recent weeks to wish me well. I want to thank each and every one of you for your thoughtful, inspiring and often beautiful notes, cards and gifts. Your spirit and love have lit up my home, my spirit, [...]
RIP NDP Leader Jack Layton
August 22, 2011
It was announced today that NDP Leader Jack Layton passed away last night. Jack Layton, the New Democratic Party leader who led his party to Official Opposition status in this year’s federal election, has died after a battle with cancer. He passed away early this morning with his family at his side. He was 61. [...]
Game on!
August 21, 2011
Bottom of the ninth. the rookies load the bases for the Cambridge Citizen. In May, the Citizen fielded a team that surprised everyone as they showed they weren’t out of their league. Any effort to copy The Citizen’s style of play has proved fruitless, as have been efforts to steal their game plan. It’s down [...]
Doubting The Experts
August 20, 2011
Listening to the radio last week and the finance “expert,” suggested laying off public servants would not help the US debt: “you just put those laid off people on unemployment,” he explained. “And lower your tax revenues. It would increase the deficit.” Well, yes, when you lay off a public servant you add that person [...]
Anudder
August 19, 2011
I have fantasized about what it would be like to have a different wife. Now before you think I’m reading something risqué and suggestive again like the Songs of Solomon (I am), I should inform the reader that my fantasy is almost completely of a platonic rather than lecherous nature. I am now after thirty-odd [...]
Cambridge Historian almost history
August 17, 2011
Jim Quantell, who is a walking encyclopedia on local history, is set to retire from his post at the Cambridge Archives at the end of September. The author of several book and a regular column in The Times, Jim is not worried about finding something to do. Good luck, Jim. I’ll be one of the many [...]
The Galt Reporter Volume 1, Issue 1 Friday, November 13th 1846
August 17, 2011
This is from November 13th, 1846. The very first issue of The Galt Reporter. (Thanks to Lynne from the Cambridge Archives)
The Fish Quill Poetry Tour
August 17, 2011
The little cottage restaurant had standing room only, with the tinkling of the chimes, announcing more people arriving at the door. There was a diverse crowd for this occasion. From the “King of Cambridge’s” writing crowd, Mr. Bob Green, to three local high school students, who saw that the Canoe Poets were coming to town [...]
She said it was her first time…
August 13, 2011
This is not the fist time I have woken up and said ‘Was she as good as I remember.” but this time I have proof that she was. I had to watch the video to be sure, and she is even better than I had remembered.. She had told me that it was her first [...]
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