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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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Together We Can Create a Welcoming Community

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The Joy of Connection Part 3 June 2020 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, William Kirby….

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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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Anneliese Pankratz: Portrait of a Caring Community

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  It was a beautiful evening in fall and I was enjoying a quiet time puttering about in my front yard when I heard the noise. It was a muffled crack followed by an onslaught of men’s excited voices, then…

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