New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “FAREWELL, MY NOBLE STEED.”

For over fifty years, he has served me faithfully. During three decades living in Peterborough, I rode him to work many days across three...

Country Curing – by Rev. Heather McCarrel

July 1st I arrived as the new minister at a country church: the Kemble-Sarawak, Zion-Keppel Pastoral Charge.   The ministry now runs out of two church...

New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “OH, CANADA”

On Canada Day a few years ago, I inadvertently displayed my large maple leaf flag the wrong way.  That is not an easy error...

Luminous Moments – by Rev. Heather McCarrel

“Do you have time to go for a drive?”  He added, “There is something really cool I want to show you.” Within minutes we were...

Kincardine Pride Disappointed in MP’s Vote on Conversion Therapy

  Kincardine Pride Inc. is disappointed and disheartened to discover Huron Bruce Member of Parliament (MP) Ben Lobb voted against Bill C-6, a bill to...

New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “THOSE DREADED DEPARTMENTALS”

If you are over age 70 and completed the five-year senior matriculation programme in an Ontario high school, the word “departmental” will likely evoke...

Father’s Day – by Rev. Heather McCarrel

This story is being shared in honour of Pride Month and also in honour of Father’s Day, it is shared with permission. He was one...

What’s a weed? – by Rev. Heather McCarrel

Once I read that the best way to keep your lawn weed free was by keeping it thick with grass; by seeding regularly it...

New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “GOING, GOING, GONG!”

About five years ago, Grand River Regional Cancer Centre in Kitchener created a meaningful ritual for patients when their treatment was completed. After concluding...

The Call of 215 Children – by Rev. Heather McCarrel

The discovery this past week of the remains of 215 children at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia, has...