41st Mattawa River Canoe Race Hosted 130+ Participants
5 Hours, 27 minutes and 53 seconds. That is the long-standing fastest finishing time of the 64 kilometre Mattawa River Canoe Race, which has been standing since 1995! With another [...]
Vested Interest Inspires Our Community For 25 Years
Vested Interest Trading is a Retail Store that also wholesales to over 2000 vendors across Canada and the United States. Vested Interest started out as a street vendor 25 years [...]
Now That I Know Better, I Can do Better.
Close to 100 women assembled at Nipissing University to hear presentations by Tanya Lukin Linklater, Director of Aboriginal Affairs and Dr. Mike Degagne, President of Nipissing University. The topic: Reconciliation [...]
Building Strong Cohesive Communities
I had a conversion with the Mayor of a small community in Northern Ontario, and asked him why his townsfolk preferred to live there. And he said; “I listen to [...]
Body Talk
What would your body say if it could talk? “Hey, it’s me, body’s CEO. I had a meeting with the heads of the organ department yesterday, and we have some [...]
Serving the Military Community
On March 4, 2016, I was appointed the first female Honorary Colonel of the 21 Aerospace Control and Warning Squadron at 22 Wing, at CFB North Bay. This appointment took [...]
The Waterfront Pergola Legacy
When I think about what kind of legacy I want to leave behind I think of my family first. I think about the values I have passed on and how [...]
It Takes a Community to Build a Park
I had the opportunity to coordinate and witness an extra-ordinary event, the greening of the Community Waterfront Park Civic Plaza and parking lot in the City of North Bay in [...]
Community Networks that Inspire
I have networked with many gifted people who did some pretty extra-ordinary things with their life and had the privilege to call them my friends as well. Dr. Mark McLeod: [...]
Building Age Friendly Parks
There’s very strong movement across Canada to build age-friendly cities as compared to the traditional 20th century model of car-friendly cities. That means building age-friendly parks that are a social [...]
