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Niagara on the Lake Local, Dec. 30, 2020 It wasn’t what they expected when they moved to Niagara. It has only been a year and a half since Antonio Illas first set foot on the most fertile soil in Canada,…
Read MoreNiagara on the Lake Local, December 11, 2020 2020 will always be remembered as a year of extraordinary challenges. In Niagara on the Lake it will also be remembered as a time when a caring community shone brightly! The delivery…
Read MoreNiagara on the Lake Local, October 8,2020 By Penny Coles ( Edited version ) Two Niagara-on-the-Lake families are seeking a permanent solution for a Jamaican farmworker who was seriously injured in a 2008 workplace accident here. The story of…
Read MoreNOTL Local, October 2, 2020 https://notllocal.com/2020/10/02/library-books-for-kids-heading-to-jamaica/ In February 2012 Jodie Godwin, her 12 year old daughter Leah and I had the opportunity to visit Jamaica. The purpose of the trip was to meet the families of the men who worked…
Read MoreThe NOTL Local ~ October 2, 2020 It’s no exaggeration that this past season has been fraught with unforeseen challenges for everyone. There were also many times this past summer when a bright sunbeam would slip through a fissure in…
Read MoreThe Niagara on the Lake Local Part 3, June 29 Until the last quarter century, most of early black history in Niagara on the Lake was buried in obscure documents or barely acknowledged by one of our town’s foremost historians,…
Read MoreThe Niagara on the Lake Local, June 22 https://notllocal.com/2020/06/25/farm-worker-struggles-to-get-permanent-resident-status/ It never gets easier. There is a price to be paid for families that are separated for eight months of the year. Men and women working here on the temporary…
Read MoreThere has been much in the news lately regarding the systemic racism which most of us who have grown up in a white dominated culture have been blissfully unaware of, yet benefited from. We have a lot to process, especially…
Read MoreThis year marks a 15 year anniversary celebrating treasured friendships with our Jamaican neighbours. It was in spring 2005 that I was invited to assist with the music at a little church service for Caribbean farm workers. The CWOP …
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