Cheap eats. Free fun.

3 Apr
If you’re looking for a fun night out for you and the kids (or grandkids, or just on your own), the annual Dunvegan Recreation Association’s Pizza, Crokinole and Taffy Party this coming Friday, April 5this it. To begin with, it’s ... Read more »

First honk of 2019

27 Mar
Well it’s official. Mother Nature has reluctantly agreed that it’s spring and has pushed the great migration button. This past Sunday, while spreading grit on the icy path to the BBQ, I heard my first flight of Canada Geese winging ... Read more »

Great bells of fire

20 Mar
There was a time when every, or at least most, self-respecting churches wanted a bell. Not an array of public address speakers in a belfry that amplify a CD-sourced church bell. But a real, honest-to-God tocsin of cast bronze to ... Read more »

Dispatch from 1812

13 Mar
Captain Jim Mullin of the Glengarry Light Infantry (a reenactor regiment) sent me a brief dispatch from the field to say that Friday’s steak night fundraiser was a great success. And I agree. The reservations policy introduced last year yielded ... Read more »