By Andrea Roberts Published June 30 2020 The following is a letter to the public from Dysart et al Mayor Andrea Roberts. The summer of 2020 is officially here and we have been enjoying some…
First acknowledgement
By Jenn Watt Here in the Haliburton Highlands land acknowledgements are becoming more common but haven’t yet been embraced as extensively as they could be. June is Indigenous History Month a time to put our…
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Letter to the editor: Haliburton Concert Series cancels balance of 2020 season In March the organizing committee for the Hal iburton Concert Series made the decision to cancel this year’s May 3 concert. We were…
Day 87
By Lynda Shadbolt Published June 16 2020 We all have stories we’ll tell about our time in this pandemic. How we spent our time what we learned about ourselves what was important every day and…
Take care
By Sue Tiffin Published June 16 2020 As information about the spread of coronavirus and the devastating effects of the virus throughout the world has infiltrated our sources of information much has been said about…
Late night garbage
To the editor Last evening [June 7] at about 5:30 p.m. a grey car pulled up to the gate of the new building on Highway 118 and two guys got out of the car and…
Main message
By Sue Tiffin ONE DAY WHEN we look back to this time in our his tory Ontario residents might best be able to describe what it was like with that symbolic head turn that is…
Olive
By Lynda Shadbolt We are all given a lot in life that we don’t understand. Things that we don’t necessarily want. Life is not always fair even or just. We can’t control everything. What we can do is…
Take action
By Sue Tiffin WHEN THE weight of the world feelsheavy it makes us want to retreat turn off the news andtry to live in a blissful ignorance if the matters of the daydon’t seem to affect our own lives directly.…
It's about respect
By Zachary Roman Published May 26 2020 If you’re reading this while being safe and following all of the recommended best practices for preventing COVID-19 you’re awesome and you certainly don’t need me telling you…
A different kind of goodbye
Published May 26 2020 To the Editor Saying goodbye is usually a face-to-face hand-to-hand experience. But not this year. So as we move out of the county on May 1 we must find a different…
Hope
by Lynda Shadbolt Published May 19 2020 By the time this article comes out we will be in about day 57 of our social distancing. All of us have had moments or days of fear…
The next test
By Jenn Watt Published May 19 2020 Leash up your shaggy dog and don those golf cleats – Ontario’s stage one is here – if you’re ready for it. The provincial government has begun the…
Are we in this together?
Published May 19 2020 To the Editor Some of the images that will remain long after the COVID-19 isolation is over are the long lines of fire trucks and other vehicles driving past hospitals in…
Coordinate mailouts
Published May 19 2020 To the Editor The following is a letter to MPP Laurie Scott. On April 20 I sent you an email with a simple question. You did not choose to respond and…
Let’s share the benefits that Haliburton has to…
Published May 19 2020 To the Editor As a cottage property owner I was happy to read the message from Mayor Andrea Roberts in last week’s Echo . It should be clarified that there are…
LTC home comes through for family
Published May 19 2020 To the Editor During a time when it seems that all of the stories coming from long-term care facilities in Canada are heartbreakingly dismal I would like to share a story…
Meaningful numbers
To the Editor When trying to analyze the spread of COVID-19 why are we looking at numbers like total cases of infected people and the number of recovered people? Since we are not testing everyone…
Moving forward
By Jenn Watt Now that the provincial government is beginning to ease restrictions on business and activities and more seasonal property owners are returning to cottage country it’s time for us to focus on what’s…
The fear of us versus them
To the Editor Seventeen years ago we purchased a cottage in the Haliburton area. After exploring many other recreational areas we chose Haliburton due to its vibrant nature; a place where people treated each other…
Welcome to the Haliburton Club
By Janet Trull Special to the Echo I am starting a club. As a kid I belonged to a comic book club. Everyone brought their favourite comic books to swap. We talked about who would…