Bancroft this Week

Hastings Highlands debating residential shipping containers

The other day, it occurred to me that duck camp was right around the corner. This thought caused me to go through the checklist of things I need to organize before late-September comes. They are licences, firearms, ammunition, calls, blinds, hunting clothes, boots, waders, GPS units, decoys, batteries, cameras, SD cards, boat, motor, camo cloth and pickled eggs.

NHCC now the largest food bank in region

I want to recognize Dani Lang for five years of exemplary volunteer service before she became paid executive director of the North Hastings Community Cupboard (NHCC) in 2012. Her dedication prevented our closure in 2007.

A few notes about music and babies

The babies arrived at the Early Years Centre in all kinds of ways –in strollers, in car-seats, in the arms of a parent or grandparent. Some infants had drifted off, flickering smiles playing on their sleepy lips. Others were wide-eyed with wonder at seeing so many other babies together. For many this was the first organized group these babies had attended and, as we sang songs and rhymes and shared books, these babies fixated on their parents and other babies like moths to light.

Look out for shady hotel rooms

Have you ever booked a hotel online and after arriving thought “wow, I wish I had a blacklight?” Maybe you were surfing the web for your honeymoon suite on Expedia.ca or KAYAK.com. Maybe you were clicking through Trivago.ca — you told your partner it was just to see if there were any last minute deals but amen Trivago guy, amen.

Local student selected for $1,000 education scholarship

Another lucky Bancroft Tim Hortons employee has been selected to for the Tim Hortons Scholarship Program.

Hastings Highlands keeping an eye on municipal equipment

Hastings Highlands council is installing GPSs into its operations equipment.

Poets come to the valley

Poetry Please is getting people writing in the Valley.

Tai Chi Chuan reprograms your body

The ancient martial art of Tai Chi Chuan (literally translated as “supreme ultimate fist”) has brought a wide range of beneficial health impacts to millions of people over centuries. What is it about this practice that has inspired generations to spend time learning it? If you ask long-time tai chi instructor Sandra Zabludofsky, she says the health and mobility benefits people feel from practicing tai chi movements are the result of a “re-programing” of the body that occurs naturally as participants begin to learn how to “move from the inside.”

Marina owner says electric cars are the way of the future

A local business owner is ahead of the game when it comes to electric cars.

Arne Roosman big contributor to Toronto art scene

Local award winning artist Arne Roosman has just contributed in a big way to the Bloor Street revitalization project in Toronto with his biggest mural yet that has been installed just in time for the project completion celebration in September. Measuring nearly fifty feet long, the mural is located on Tartu College in the heart of the Bloor Street Cultural Corridor on Bloor Street west directly across from the Bata Shoe Museum. Tartu College houses the Estonian Cultural Heritage Society, The Museum of Estonian Abroad (VEMU), and the Tartu Institute which is devoted to preserving, promoting and explaining Estonian culture and includes a large library and archives.

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