Tag Archives: migrant workers

Honouring Daniel Brown

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                                                 The Local, October 20,2023 There was a sense of anticipation as the emcee of the concert…

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Making Connections Enriches the Whole Community

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Making connections enriches a community July 22, 2021 by Jane Andres   It’s a Tuesday night and I’m pulling up to the Serlucca farm on Concession 2, the car loaded with groceries. Dan, the farm owner, greets me with a…

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Together We Can Create a Welcoming Community

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The 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,…

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The Joy of Connection – Part 2

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The 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…

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The Joy of Connection: Part 1

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There 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…

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Thanking a Farmer’s Worker

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Eating Niagara – September 5, 2015 By Tiffany Mayer   A pile of photographs sits on Jane Andres’s dining room table.In them, faces beam out at the viewer: middle school-aged students wear caps and gowns to mark the successful end of…

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Niagara concert welcomes migrant farm workers : Toronto Star

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By NICHOLAS KEUNG   Friday, May 3, 2013 It is not often migrant farm workers get to party and go to a concert after a long day of back-bending labour in the field.Certainly not a concert dedicated to them, with black gospel, reggae and R&B…

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