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3 things or places you came to appreciate more
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• Ken Reid Conservation Area • The ingenuity of our small business owners • Leaders who put public health above politics
3 local things you’re looking forward to doing again
• Seeing a show at Globus Theatre and the
Academy Theatre • Having staff meetings again in person • joli Joli Getting together with multiple friends at once
3 books you loved in 2020
• Humankind: A Hopeful History (Rutger Bregman) • The Tangled Garden: A Canadian
Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age (Richard Stursberg) • Next (Darrell Bricker)
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• Our small community • Time with friends when possible • The commitment and growth of Team Advocate
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• Going to a crowded bar • Seeing local live music • Events at the kids’ schools jamiE jamiE DENIS DENIS3 books you loved in 2020 • Seven Fallen Feathers (Tanya Talaga) • Henry IV, Part 2 (William Shakespeare) • The Hilarious World of Depression (John Moe) geOfF geOfF tHe arTha ThE awarTha
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to appreciate more • The city’s system of trails. They took us out • Working from home • Long afternoon walks • Home baking nanCy nanCy jesSica jesSica of our homes and were a source of healthy recreation for many. In May alone, numbers enjoying the Kawartha TransCanada Trail were hardware stores, grocery stores, etc. That they served us while earning little pay and under such difficult — even, arguably, threatening — conditions is so appreciated. up 214 per cent over 2019. 3 local things you’re looking • Tennis courts freshly re-lined to accommodate forward to doing again pickle-ballers. • Ushering at the Academy Theatre • Lindsay Community Garden on Fleming • Attending church again — not simply services, College’s Frost campus. A tranquil community tRevor tRevor • jamiE jamiE but dinners, concerts and other events that regularly take place in our places of worship Seeing people in person on a regular basis, geOfF geOfF DENIS DENIS kirK kirK within the larger community. 3 local things you’re looking and not just through Zoom forward to doing again 3 books you loved in 2020 • Confederates in The Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Tony Horwitz)iAn iAn wilLiAm wilLiAm • or choir Indoor competition (whether pick-up basket ball, hockey, or squash) • Royal Progress: Canada’s Monarchy in the • Not feeling anxious about going out to a geOfF geOfF • kirK kirK Age of Disruption (D. Michael Jackson, ed.) A Road for Canada: The Illustrated Story of the Trans-Canada Highway (Daniel Francis) tHe kawarTha lakes libRary ThE KawarTha lakes libRary theatre or cinema 3 books you loved in 2020 • What It’s Like to Be a Bird (David Allen Sibley) • The Odyssey (trans. Emily Wilson) • Dreyer’s English (Benjamin Dreyer)
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3 local things you’re looking forward to doing again
• Hosting friends for massive potluck dinners • Mini concerts at Boiling Over • Packed houses at the Lindsay Little Theatre and the Lakeview Arts Barn
3 books you loved in 2020
• Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens) • From the Ashes (Jesse Thistle) • Alone (Michelle Parise)
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geOfF geOfF came to appreciate more • Bonfires as a safe way to gather with friends • Living in the country • Well-researched, non-speculative health news 3 local things you’re looking forward to doing again • Feeling the excitement of a packed theatrekirK kirK tHe kawarTha lakes libRary ThE KawarTha lakes libRary 3 things or places you • Meeting friends for coffee came to appreciate more • Hugging people not in my household • • • joli JoliKawartha Settlers’ Village — it has a great vibe for weddings Northern back roads in fall — the colours are outstanding for so long The improved boat launches around the city iAn iAn 3 books you loved in 2020 • From the Ashes (Jesse Thistle) • The Finder (Will Ferguson) • The Mirror and the Light (Hilary Mantel)
3 local things you’re looking forward to doing again
• Seeing a movie on the big screen — there is still something special about a six-metre- high Halle Berry. 3 things or places • tRevor tRevor jamiE jamiERODERICkRODERICk nanCy nanCy jesSica jesSicayou came to appreciate more • Takeout food • Boiling Over’s Coffee Vault Attending a concert — Jason Isbell, the Arkells, and Bruce Springsteen all have new music out, and though none would be playing in Lindsay, I still miss travelling to see a show. • Guided meditation courses by Headspace • Playing with my band, Live On the Line.
We had a busy summer lined up playing at 3 local things you’re looking
Canada Day celebrations, the Bobcaygeon forward to doing again
Food and Craft Beer Festival, private parties • Being able to study with friends and the Bobcaygeon Fall Fair dance. We have • Watching a blockbuster at Century Cinemas not even got together to practise in months. • Getting back in the gym
3 books you loved in 2020 3 books you loved in 2020
• The Soul of a Tree (George Nakashima) • The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls) • • joli JoliFacing Ali (Stephen Brunt) Sex, Death and Fly-Fishing geOfF geOfF (John Gierach) kirK kirKiAn iAn wilLiAm wilLiAm• Bad Feminist (Roxane Gay) • Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People (Danny Katch)
joli Joli kirK kirK iAn iAn tHe kawarTha lakes libRary ThE KawarTha lakes libRary wilLiAm wilLiAm 3 things or places you came to appreciate more • Our cottage — an escape from the daily realities of the pandemic • My phone — it became my lifeline for work in the absence of face-to-face interviews • How lucky I am to have the wife that I do 3 things or places you came to appreciate more • Technology that allows us to still hang out with friends and family • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for policy measures taken during the pandemic that helped provide support money while some of us in the family were unemployed 3 local things you’re looking • Walks around Lindsay, which clear my mind and forward to doing again • Watching a council meeting in person — so much gets missed when you just watch the broadcast. • Going to a live sporting event of any level of skill — there’s no better place to be than watching my boys play soccer at Wilson Fields. • Going to Toronto to see my beloved Saskatchewan Roughriders play, assuming the CFL is able to survive the 2020 COVID-cancelled season. 3 books you loved in 2020 • Anything by Douglas Reeman, the master of naval yarns. I have read eight of his paperbacks this year • Red Seas Under a Red Skies (Scott Lynch) tRevor tRevor geOfF geOfF jamiE jamiE kirK kirK DENIS DENIS tHe kawarTha lakes libRary ThE KawarTha lakes libRary give me a sense of optimism toward my goals 3 local things you’re looking forward to doing again • The Yu-Gi-Oh card game. I recently purchased a special deck of my own and can’t wait to go out to local tournaments • My local writers club. We’d meet at the library about twice or thrice a month and I’m looking forward to returning there • Properly hanging out with my friends, maybe to swim, go to Ctrl-V, or watch a movie 3 books you loved in 2020 • All These Monsters (Amy Tintera) • New America: Awakenings (Tyler Davis) • The State of Us (Shaun David Hutchinson) • Hue 1968 (Mark Bowden)
on tHe sTreEt on tHe on tHe Compiled by William McGinn and Geoff ColemansTreEt “I retired in June and was able to enjoy one of the best summers in recent memory, playing golf at local courses and windsurfing more than ever in the last 40 years.”
Andy Bean
Fenelon Falls
We asked, aside from
family and friends, what are “I am grateful for the kindness you grateful for in 2020? shown by strangers that make me realize just how lucky it is to be a Canadian citizen.” “My brother got me a Tony Lynn Bobcaygeon three-wheeler bike, and with it I have been able to bike about 900 km across Ontario. I’ve “I’m grateful I got the opportunity to get been through Oshawa, Whitby, a full-time job here [at Point of Balance the Trans Canada Trail and so Physiotherapy] after graduating, so I was many more places.” able to take a year off to work and save Ellen Woodward up some money for school for next year.” Lindsay Colleen Fillion Lindsay
“We’re grateful our Canadian government took proper measures to protect us from the virus, and we’re grateful for the election loss of Donald Trump down south.”
Jim and Pam Horsburgh
Lindsay “The virus, whatever else it’s responsible for, has had a humbling effect on many of us; I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”
Garth Stasiuk
Cameron “It was tougher due to COVID, but this year I got engaged.”
Annalisa Rielly
Lindsay
“My husband and I were able to work together on our flower and vegetable gardens and ended up with beautiful flowers blooming all summer and fall, and amazing vegetables to eat. There’s a great feeling of accomplishment when you look at the beauty of our flowers and the abundance of our vegetables. It also makes us realize that there are still good things in this unsettled world.” Jane Garvey, Fenelon Falls 33
