Brian Dowdall Municipal Election Candidate Profile Name: Brian Dowdall Municipality: Beckwith Position Sought: Councillor Currently Retired or Working (where?): I currently do contract work related to data entry. (high tech). Former Elected Positions/Terms if applicable: Beckwith councillor – 2014. Community volunteer experience (service clubs, local committees, fundraising, etc): Canadian Cancer Society, former board member of the […]
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Tim Campbell Municipal Election Candidate Profile Name: Tim Campbell Municipality: Beckwith Position Sought: Councillor Currently Retired or Working (where?): No response Former Elected Positions/Terms if applicable: Beckwith councillor – 2014. Community volunteer experience (service clubs, local committees, fundraising, etc): No response Top 3 issues facing your municipality and its residents that council has control or […]
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Kerri Nicholson-Watson Municipal Election Candidate Profile Name: Kerri Nicholson-Watson Municipality: Beckwith Position Sought: Councillor Currently Retired or Working (where?): I am currently employed full-time as the finance and accounting manger for a large landscape and snow removal company Former Elected Positions/Terms if applicable: N/A Community volunteer experience (service clubs, local committees, fundraising, etc): RMMHA hockey team […]
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Joe Dowdall Municipal Election Candidate Profile Name: Joe Dowdall Municipality: Beckwith Position Sought: Councillor Currently Retired or Working (where?): Yes, I am currently working full-time in the municipal construction field. Former Elected Positions/Terms if applicable: N/A Community volunteer experience (service clubs, local committees, fundraising, etc): Junior Chamber Of Commerce and Minor Hockey Top 3 issues facing […]
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Faye Campbell Municipal Election Candidate Profile Name: C. Faye Campbell Municipality: Beckwith Position Sought: Councillor Currently Retired or Working (where?): I am semi-retired and still run a small construction business with my husband Lyle. Former Elected Positions/Terms if applicable: I have served as a councillor in Beckwith Township since 2003. Community volunteer experience (service clubs, local […]
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This is the latest craze in the wine world. I will concentrate on just a few Orange wines from Ontario, B.C., France and Spain. We just returned from a long weekend in Niagara-on-the Lake staying at a beautiful and relaxing B&B. Our first stop was to say hello to the Winemaker, Ann Sperling, but we […]
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No matter how you get there, it’s worth the trip! We are undoubtedly blessed with a proliferation of quaint picturesque small towns and villages and especially fortunate to have the added benefit of those communities located on one of our region’s many breathtakingly beautiful waterways. One such location is Portland on the banks of the […]
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Building the future The year was 1883, and Benjamin Glover Byram (1862-1943) left his fiancée, Louisa Marion Dean (1861-1936) in England with a promise. He told her that he would establish himself in Canada, build a house there, and then invite her to join him. The twenty-one-year-old boarded a ship and left the country with nothing […]
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The spirit of the season is alive and well at North Folk Cafe & Gelato in Perth. This cafe is decked out for Christmas with festive decorations, a holiday drink menu, and an old-timey postbox for mailing letters to Santa. Owner Dasha Smolentseva writes, “[I’ve] been dreaming of this since the inception of North Folk […]
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