Pauline Clark

I just finished an online Zoom video call with half a dozen scrapbookers. I call them my ladies. They’re part of a community of scrapbookers that I’ve come to know through my mobile scrapbook business. The women on that Zoom call are women who, in pre-COVID times, were used to gathering for entire weekends of scrapbooking and memory-keeping. They were disappointed when I had to cancel a four-day scrapbooking event that had been scheduled to take place in April. And more events since then.

When Albert Bisaillon got a call from his cousin last month, he was both surprised and honoured. He was about to inherit his uncle Frederick’s war medals. “I really was very surprised,” says the Thessalon First Nation resident. Albert’s aunt, Phoebe Dube, who had lived much of her adult life in Sudbury, had inherited the medals from her brother. She passed them on to her daughter, Eileen Winn, who’s now 92.

When you’re 10 and you’re nicknamed Nolonius, after a Greek Spartan, you’re probably going to be empowered to do great things. Like challenging yourself to hike into Agawa Canyon as a way of preparing for your black belt test in karate. That’s life for Nolan (aka Nolonius) Hicks of St. Thomas, Ont. The 10-year-old karate kid and his father, Russ, recently hiked 47 kilometres in four days, a trip that began with a hike on the Towab trail into Agawa Falls.