I’m sure you’ve heard of Tim Horton's promotion of “Roll Up the Rim to Win 2023 – Every Roll Wins” and this year the twist, of course, is that every “roll” results in winning a prize. Every one. What a

We have a gem of an institution in our own backyard. Stevenson Memorial Hospital was built through the generosity of a visionary Theodore Pringle Loblaw who knew the importance of health services close to home. He gave till he felt

One of the most gratifying and inspiring opportunities I ever received was to be appointed as Chair of the reconstituted Board of Directors of Stevenson Memorial Hospital in 2007. I’d had earlier opportunities in my career to found and lead

There is a childhood song I learned in the Holland Marsh in the sixties that might still have a message in it for us today.  It goes something like this: I went around the corner and I went around the block And

Let me introduce you to SMH’s first Director of Nursing. Marion Carlton joined the hospital in 1954 and watched the then new hospital being built and opened in 1964. Moving into the new hospital coincided with Marion being named its

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, butcher, and meat counter.

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

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, 2020, to