Most of us at some point in our lives have tried to close our eyes and envision what the future may hold. Vision is simply seeing what is and imagining what might be. Vision is not crystal balling. If we

Many years ago, Central United Church in Barrie appointed me as volunteer Treasurer of the Church. It was a great experience because on a limited budget we had to make sure the Church was a going-concern, and still make sure

My parents, Gerrie and Marinus Vandevis, owned a grocery store in the Holland Marsh called the Marsh Food Store. It was a well-integrated and stocked store complete with local vegetables from the Marsh, fruit from Niagara, and a butcher and

Stevenson is one busy place. Can you think of any organization in town that facilitated the birth of over 500 babies in 2019? That is approximately 10 per week or roughly one every 17 hours. From April 1, 2019 to

I played hockey in the seventies in a church league from the age of 16 to when I got married at 20. I had never played organized hockey before, just shinny on the canal behind our school in the Holland

My Dad immigrated to Canada in 1952 and began working in the fertile black muck fields of the Holland Marsh picking carrots, onions, lettuce, cauliflower and celery. Soon he became the shipper/receiver for Holland River Gardens and within a few

I did my PhD dissertation on goal-setting and discovered some amazing results. I surveyed 300 electrical contractor companies in Ontario. I asked if their company set safety goals, if they were specific and if timelines were established with respect to

My family moved to the Jackson Farm on the 9th Line of Tecumseth Township in 1968. I attended Tecumseth North Central, Beeton Central and later Banting Memorial High School. We set out to raise veal calves on our 15-acre plot.

As President & CEO of an electrical safety consulting company, I envisioned an industry with zero injuries to any of our 50,000 electrical workers. In 1999, we were experiencing 1,200 injuries per year and so I suggested to my Board

In last week’s article we talked about our collective opportunity to make a new Hospital a reality in our catchment area. One demonstrated way of seeing that vision a reality is for us to set goals to make it happen.