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Hockey guy Tommy Frew wants to travel across Canada to share his story of hope and mental illness
He sat in his car in the parking lot of the arena, his hockey skates in the trunk. On the ice, it was a public skate. → Read More
Huntington’s disease: ‘We have to fight this together’
Richard Gingras moved north of everything to escape. He left hometown St. Catharines and found the place of his dreams, north of North Bay, past Temagami, somewhere in the middle of nowhere between the communities of New Liskeard and Elk Bay. → Read More
Socks for Change: West 49 founder Sam Baio puts his heart into warming feet
In his mind, it was an easy fix. Give people who live in poverty wool socks, and they’ll at least have warm, dry feet. → Read More
Autism didn’t stop Michael from writing a book, even though he can’t read or write
Michael, 27, lives with autism and an intellectual disability. He has a smile, a strong handshake and a good-natured, charming personality that equals his robust is six-foot-plus frame. → Read More
‘When you almost die, you learn to live’
One day, some 30 years ago, a mother watched her four-year-old son’s Christmas concert. He played Santa and came down the make-shift chimney head first, as the teacher recited ‘Twas the Night Before... → Read More
Women from around the world sew multicultural dolls for children with FACS Niagara
The dolls look like the medley of kids who will cuddle them. → Read More
Schools and music students are gifted instruments by Niagara Conservatory of Music
Music brings harmony to their family. → Read More
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He was the lone skater on the novice rink. It was the early 1950s, and a young 20-something Peter Goehle had on a brand new set of blades. He was new at this. An immigrant from Germany, he needed a way to stay active through the cold Toronto winters. → Read More
A story of addiction: ‘You can’t hide it’
He hated his eyes. Cold, dead and brutally honest, revealing more than he wanted the world to see. They stared back at him, taunting, threatening to reveal a secret so dark and shameful, he couldn’t... → Read More
Anxiety: ‘It was a huge weight controlling my life’
In the back seat of the car, a three-year-old screams. She is crying hysterically, worried for reasons unknown that she is going to be a bad mother. → Read More
PTSD: “I don’t want anyone to suffer in silence.”
Late one night, he came home from work and made a sandwich in his kitchen. → Read More
Two hundred years of history at Fort George
Two hundred years of military history in Niagara. Two days. → Read More
‘They love me and I love them,’ Woman runs retirement home for dogs
Christine Van Moorsel, 72, runs retirement home for aging and sick dogs in Niagara-on-the-Lake. → Read More
St. Catharines pauses its plans for pot store
St. Catharines has put plans to welcome a recreational marijuana retail store on hold. → Read More
Married 31 years, Walter and Carol Wormald both live with a developmental disability
He noticed her at the track and field meet. ‘Notice’ being his word. By all accounts, it was a special type of I’m-interested-in-you kind of prolonged noticing that sent one, indisputable message straight to his heart: I want to marry her. → Read More
Secord music teacher retires after 31 years behind the baton
The coffee cups pile up, one by one in the shape of a developing pyramid on Dave Sisler’s desk in the music room at Laura Secord Secondary School. → Read More
The Niagara Workers’ Activist Group advocates for better working conditions
Back in 2015, in a room at the Stokes Seed building on Page Street in St. Catharines, she stood in front of a crowd, feeling awkward, anxious and yet resolutely strong. She clutched a handwritten speech and fought back some serious butterflies that had invaded her abdominal cavity the night before. → Read More
Music, mud and more at In the Soil
Mud met art, at In the Soil. → Read More
Brenda Nash helps troubled kitties become more adoptable
Peter the stray cat rubs his fluffy head against the wire cage. He pauses briefly, and his big yellow eyes cast what human’s might interpret as a please-pet-me look toward Brenda Nash, standing a few... → Read More
NIAGARA CLOSEUP: Fat bikes: have snow, will ride
The sky is grey. A cold, pounding February rain is turning a pearly white blanket of fresh snow into an unappetizing dirt parking lot slushie as a group of friends arrive at Glenridge Quarry Naturalization Site. → Read More