To the Editor “It was 20 years ago today...” ... Or so begins “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” by The Beatles. Well it was 20 years ago last Saturday that the Haliburton United Church…
Stories of 2020
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To those who help
T his is our last paper in 2019. We at the Haliburton Echo will be taking a week off to enjoy the holidays with our family and friends. As the year comes to a close…
Season’s greetings
By Jenn Watt The warm sweet smell of apple cider. The anticipation of a new toy. Singing along with holiday tunes on the car ride home. Saving up to give something special to a loved…
Jann Arden
By Lynda Shadbolt This article is dedicated to you. You who looks after a parent a spouse a child a friend or if you are someone in need of a little cheer and inspiration. Or…
Making lives safer
By Jenn Watt Last Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the deaths of 14 women at École Polytechnique in Montreal during the deadliest mass shooting in Canada’s history. It’s a date frequently described as a…
Behind the numbers
By Jenn Watt It’s how numbers are presented that make them useful or misleading to an audience. Is the glass 50 per cent full or 50 per cent empty? Or in Haliburton County are we…
Getting out of the reading-rut with 2019 favourites
By Erin Kernohan-Berning Every year I post a reading goal on the book recommendation website Goodreads. It’s always 50 books. I never read 50 books. I usually manage about half that but it’s nice to…
Special service addresses grief during the holidays
Submitted by Mary Anne Swagerman The Christmas season for many is a magical time where there is laughter family traditions and gatherings special foods. But for some this season is a difficult time. A loved…
Meet your mayor
By Jenn Watt Published Nov. 26 2019 Community centres and public institutions are frequently packed with civic-minded folks when municipal all-candidates meetings are hosted in Haliburton County. People come out en masse to hear from…
Faith in the small
By Lynda Shadbolt Published Nov. 26 2019 The yogis have always said “there are causes and conditions for everything. Some people are born naturally flexible some are born with tight hamstrings some inherited certain body…
Lessons from the outage
Published Nov. 26 2019 To the Editor I am pleased to report that after six days Hydro One did call me back concerning the upgrade project schedule for Sunday Nov. 24 (8 a.m. to 4…
Poetic mystery
Sometimes stories take you to interesting places reaching people you never anticipated and taking turns that are pleasantly unexpected. Such was the case with a story we published on Private Benjamin Bird a Haliburton man…
No time for procrastination
To the Editor On Sept. 27 I attended a meeting of the county’s joint environmental committee. I was very impressed by the overall respect and collaboration between its members. John Smith councillor for Dysart et…
Tree is a community effort
To the Editor We have been fortunate in Haliburton Village to have had Christmas trees for the town donated for the last several years. Over the years these kind folks have donated trees: Jerry Lis…
Why I'm a flu shot convert
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Liberation tulips
By Jenn Watt One cannot help but feel great pride and simultaneously great sorrow when thinking of the Canadian liberation of Holland and the horrific conditions the Dutch lived under leading up to May 5…
George
By Jenn Watt Most of us have a list in the back of our minds of things we would like to do in our lives: learning a new skill travelling to far off places or…
The quiet and stillness
My friend and I went for a hike in the Queen Elizabeth Wildlands Park the other day. It was yet another beautiful fall morning. The air was fresh the sky was blue and the fall…
Elected deputies
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Katherine
By Lynda Shadbolt Published Oct. 15 2019 Richard WAGAMESE (1955- 2017) was an Ojibway from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in Northwest Ontario who is recognized as a foremost First Nations author and storyteller. I am…