Monthly Archives: June 2012

Cambridge, Ontario. June 27, 2012… Heritage Cambridge in conjunction with the City of Cambridge Archives, will host a special workshop entitled ‘Archiving at Home’. The workshop will share basic conservation and preservation techniques and include details on creating detailed inventories for the digital world. The workshop is happening on Saturday July 28th between 9:30am and [...]

After Repeated Requests, ARA Review Hearings will be Held in Waterloo Region Queen’s Park –Rob Leone, MPP for Cambridge, is pleased to learn that the Aggregate Resources Act (ARA) review will hold public hearings in Waterloo Region on July, 9th, 2012. “This is long overdue” said Leone. “The PC Caucus has been calling for this Committee to travel [...]

  In an article in the Cambridge Times last week Slavko Ilic, who holds one of two “Adult Entertainment Licenses in Cambridge, appeared before council’s general meeting on Monday, May 19th in hopes that Cambridge will enforce the bylaws and close down all the other unlicensed massage parlours, otherwise according to Ilic “Cambridge will have [...]

by Shelley Byers Soft spoken and slight, Kelly Allan ties a black belt around her waist, ready to demonstrate the art of Kenpo Karate. Lined with mirrors, mats and numerous kicking dummies, we stand inside the Diamond Martial Arts School located in the Tiger Lofts on Water Street in Galt. A third degree black belt [...]

My parents put up with my aimless jobbing about and accepted without rancor the probability that I would never amount to much. Especially when after taking a journalism course, I failed at newspaper work and resorted to touring with country—and-western bands. Playing the music l hated most. · Pop grumbled a bit. “l still think [...]

Cambridge, ON – Mary Misner, Cambridge Galleries’ Director, received a cheque from RBC Dominion Securities representatives (left to right) Fred Allen, Ken Denholm and Blair Webber on Friday, June 15. The donation was given in support of Common Ground, the Galleries’ summer long, community-wide project. Part exhibition, part public art, part landscape/environment awareness event, and [...]

So long Ava Braun Do you have an echo to spare? With all of that cataclysmic sweet talk On top of the world I managed to crawl all the way out of the gutter To share in the matinee So long Ava Braun We can exchange a novel or two I know that all of [...]

An editorial in today’s Waterloo Region Record (Mar. 3, 2012), A public sector’s gathering storm, perturbs me. The focus of the editorial is the McGuinty government’s plan to freeze the salaries of Ontario teachers for two years in order to help eliminate the huge financial deficit in the province. I agree that Ontario’s Teacher’s Unions [...]