All posts by George Walters

George Walters is a Canadian columnist and author with more than forty years of writing experience. For over twenty years he has written a weekly column for Postmedia Network — Canada's largest newspaper chain — never missing a single week, publishing fifty-two stories a year. Combined with his work in Reader's Digest Community Voices, World News, Country Living, The Country Register, and farm and rural lifestyle magazines across Canada, he has published well over two thousand stories drawn from everyday life. He writes about farm work, fishing, old trucks, and the kind of people you only find in small towns — but just as likely he'll hand a voice to a weathered telephone pole, or turn his eye on something happening in the world today and tell you exactly what he thinks about it. No subject is off limits. If there's a story in it, George will find it. He has been called a philosopher of everyday life, a description that came up more than once during his television appearances over the years — and it's not hard to see why. His writing has a way of making the ordinary feel worth sitting with. He is the author of eleven books, including yearly short story collections and the Clay Moretti Files mystery series. Clay is a fifty-year-old private investigator who drives a 1967 Ford Galaxie, smokes cigars, and operates by a code the modern world gave up on a long time ago. The cases are present day. The man handling them is not. All titles are available in paperback and eBook on Amazon. Together, George and his wife Ruth have also created Elmer Finds His Way, the first in what he hopes will be a long series of children's books. Ruth did all the illustrations, as she has for every one of George's books — and beyond that she designed and painted the covers as well. Her work is woven into every page of everything he has published. A few words from readers: "I pulled up a kitchen chair and read your story three times." "You have a way of making a person homesick for a place they haven't been to." "Thank you for writing things that make old people and kids feel the same way at the same time." All my titles are available in paperback and eBook on Amazon.ca here.

Boating Card For Pleasure Craft Now a Must

Well I guess it is now law that all boaters must have an Operators Card to operate a boat, doesn’t matter what size neither.  I myself had to bite the bullet and take the test which I did and did quite well.  You will have to take the time and read the book and do a bit of studying for a few nights if you want to pass.  You will need around 75% to pass. There is 36 questions multiple choice.   Below is the link of the company I dealt with and found them to be very good.   Click Link Below which will take you directly to where you can take your Exam. Have a safe, enjoyable summer.

http://www.boaterexam.com/canada/default5-en.aspx

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Port Loring Weather Stations

Hi folks below is a link to our second weather station done up by wunderground.  good folks.  The data you see comes directly from our home here in Port Loring. That is where the station is located.  It covers an area of fifty miles in any direction.  Click the link below.

Port Loring Weather Station Number 2

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Fire Precautions Here In The North

I am no fireman that’s for sure, but I do know when and when not to be doing any burnin, like brush piles and things like that.  Reason being this year more than other years, that it is exceptionally dry.  Wouldn’t take much to  start off a major fire here in the north.  So be careful and if you must light a fire make sure you take the pracautions necessary.  Below is a link to the Nugget News Paper in North Bay which sheds some more light on the subject.  Click link below.

More municipalities issue burning bans

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Link For Farmers Market In North Bay

Well folks it is that time of year again.  Farmers Markets are back on line and waiting to see ya.  Why shop a farmers market?? Well for one thing you eat healthy for a change and also you will be supporting the last of a kind here in this country we call Canada.  Below is a link to the North Bay Farmers Market, but there are lots of others too.  You just have to seek them out.   Nothing like fresh fruit an vegetables, let me tell ya.

Click Link Below

North Bay Downtown Farmers’ Market

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