To the Editor In reference to the editorial in the Times about Warden Moffatt making some suggestions in changes to the position of Warden for Haliburton County may I suggest that she did not include…
Deja vu all over again
By Jim Poling Published Dec. 8 2016 There are none so blind as those that cannot see. He didn’t say those words but that’s the real message delivered last week by Michael Ferguson the federal…
Dying wish
Haliburton County is a community that takes care of its own. It’s something I’ve always admired about the place and have seen play out again and again and again. Take the more than $20000 that…
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To the Editor Monday morning (Dec. 5) as I pull out onto Highway 35 at Moore Falls I wonder where are the snow plows? I turn on my local radio station and I’m told that…
Our disappearing trees
My daughter’s steep-sided backyard in California has a strangely shaped tree. It grows out of the hillside naturally but then bends forms an arch and follows the ground down the hill to the patio. This…
Rewriting warden
Published Dec. 1 2016 As she chaired her final county council meeting as warden for 2016 last week Algonquin Highlands Reeve Carol Moffatt tabled a report suggesting that during the final two years of the…
Carrying on in CaliforniaCalm and reason appear to…
By Jim Poling Nov. 24 2016 I am strolling North Oakland California watching people drink coffee eat ice cream cones and chat about the weather. Any anxiety over the country having elected a president suffering…
Community hubs
At the beginning of this school year the Minden Ontario Early Years Centre long located at the Sears building along Bobcaygeon Road was relocated into Archie Stouffer Elementary School. That relocation was celebrated with a…
To the Editor
Just an observation on Lisa Tolentino’s comments in the Times story “Continued criticism on arena public input process” Nov. 3. A pool construction has been bounced around since the mid 1970s and possibly before so it is…
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Cause for pause By Chad Ingram Published Nov. 17 2016 The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States has brought up numerous questions about just what is going on in…
Lessons from the back 40
Lessons from the back 40 By Jim Poling Published Nov. 17 2016 Blue jays are such contradictory creatures. I’m not thinking baseball’s Blue Jays who hit everything out of the park one day but can’t…
Thanks from the food banks
To the Editor Recently the Minden Food Bank and the 4Cs Food Bank jointly completed a new fall food drive together. Businesses were canvassed in both communities with the food going to each community separately…
The maple leaf forever
To the Editor What a breath of fresh air on Nov. 11 when Fraser piped on the Colour Party with The Maple Leaf Forever. A wave of smiles and silent thumbs up went through the…
Level the OMB
By Chad Ingram Published Nov. 10 2016 The province is conducting a review of the Ontario Municipal Board and is collecting input from municipalities. There is one simple and wonderful change the provincial government could…
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To the Editor: I’m writing in response to your invitation to send in photos of family members who were veterans. I couldn’t find the picture of my father I was looking for but I did…
Torture in the 'new residential schools'
By Jim Poling Published Nov. 10 2016 The torture of Adam Capay in Thunder Bay Jail says as much about how politicians are failing us as anything else happening in the world today. As much…
Autumn of the demented squirrels
Red squirrels always have been well a bit squirrelly but this fall they are completely crazy. They are high in the hemlocks gorging seeds then leaping bough to bough and kuk-kuking incessantly. They are in…
Pointless policy
What’s the point of creating a policy if you’re not going to use it? This is a question Minden Hills councillors might ask themselves. Last week council denied support resolutions for a half dozen solar…
Bringing up the curtain
For some seven years what was once the Beaver Theatre has stood shuttered and silent like a ghost along Minden’s Water Street. The boards that cover its entranceway have become such a normalized part of…
Riding the train
I took a ride with The Girl on the Train but found the journey a bit too long. The Girl on the Train is the hugely successful thriller by British author Paula Hawkins. When it was released…
Blowin' in the Wind
It was a week of good news and bad news. First came the good and surprising news that singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Dylan’s songs changed popular culture. His lyrics…