Lynda Graham
The community development table provides a forum where our community organizations can work collaboratively on agreed common causes.
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Our communities’ organizations depend largely, or entirely, on volunteers, of which a very high proportion are seniors. It can be easy to minimise this contribution.
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This Fall, Sutton citizens aged 10 and over will get the chance to vote for their preferred project in the Town’s very first participatory budget for which $50,000 has been allocated from the Town’s investment funds.
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Back in 2018, in the Winter Edition of Le Tour, I wrote an article called Who Knew? about some of the things I had learned during my first year as an elected municipal councillor. And now—in the blink of an eye, it seems—this year it is again the time for municipal elections. The ministry (MAMH)…
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As I write this, it is not certain when and how Bed and Breakfasts will reopen in the context of COVID-19. What is certain, however, is that, after 15 happy and successful years, my career operating a B&B has come to an end. I took over Gîte Vert Le Mont at 18 Maple in November…
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Trees. Don’t you just love them? Individual trees can come to feel like an old friend—a friendly face that one sees daily. Opposite my house is a large oak. Even now in mid-winter it hangs on to some of its leaves. As if to remind me that new fresh green ones will appear in due…
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The week of 20–27 September 2019 saw the biggest climate mobilization in history. According to some sources, 7.6 million people went on strike and took to the streets to protest climate inaction. Inaction in the face of a climate crisis due to planetary heating, caused by the increase in greenhouse gas emissions. People from Sutton went…
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Par Lynda Graham, traduction par Isabelle Capmas Cet article a déjà été publié en anglais dans la dernière édition du journal Le Tour. Il parait maintenant en français, avec quelques légères modifications, à la demande de plusieurs personnes à Sutton qui l’ont jugé suffisamment intéressant pour qu’il puisse être lu par un plus grand nombre.…
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