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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.
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Generic Food & Seeds Say No

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The thing folks are going to have to deal with and deal with it fast, is this Generic food that they are putting out there today.  Things is most just don’t realise what it is doing to us humans.   If you take a look at some of these big farms through out the USA you will see that they are owned by the Pharmaceutical companies.  Right there that should send up some red flags.   If this is allowed to get going which it is already, they will have control of what ever they want to put into your food. You won’t know what they are doing to you.  This is not a good thing.  I do see though that folks are standing up for what is right and some big companies are noticing. Like Wall-mart,  They are now heading out to the farmers that grow organic and talking to them. You can see on their shelves now lots of organic things which is a good sign.  Just need to get more.  The only one that can change this before it is to late, is you.  What you have to do is stop buying this generic stuff and go organic.  I know it is going to cost you a touch more, but what is your health worth to you.  Other ways is to grow your own, get out on a weekend and go to a farmers market.  Stop in and see a farmer and ask some questions like is your crops organic or is your meat, chickens and pork let loose to eat good old grass and things.  Free range they are calling them.   All kinds of things you can do, and if a lot of folks get to doing what is right, no matter how large these companies are, they will have to listen.  Just got to say no………………………..to Generic, and don’t give in, your life might depend on it.  My Opinion Only

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Weather, What's Happening

Quick Good Morning From Port Loring Ontario

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}Good morning.”  Cool morning here so far, with frost on the pumpkins showing all  its beauty.  Guess some say there isn’t anything beautiful about it, but I say.  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, just like the old days when my Grandfather was alive.  Nothing nicer to look outside on these cold mornings and watch the smoke slowly curling up over the trees and bowing down to the earth below.  And to see the frost glistening off the grass and trees is something all in itself.  My wife and I just love it.  The old wood furnace is perkin’ away as well as the coffee, which aroma is now letting me know that it’s time to go and get a cup.  Enjoy your day.

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News, Information & Events

Letter Of Appreciation From The Powassan Library

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Well got a letter from the Powassan Library yesterday,  letting me know how much they appreciated my coming down awhile back. It was a real fine night for sure and had a good turn out too. The folks that run the library did a real find job and should be commended. The food was great and nicely laid out. They made me feel welcome and was a relaxing evening.    I got to say though, their punch was fantastic.  My wife even got their recipe before we left.  I should be the one thanking them. So………I will.  Thanks folks!

Card Of Appreciation November 2009 Powassan Library
Card Of Appreciation November 2009 Powassan Library
Powassan Library Card To Me
Powassan Library Appreciation Letter November 2009

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“How Could We All Have Been So Blind For So Long!’

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You know for a few years now I have been writing things here in my Blog that I felt that others should at the very least be taking a serious look at.  The thing I would like you to know is, that I am not against all doctors, lawyers, ministers, government officials, pharmaceutical companies, teachers and folks like that.  I do really believe there are some, that are on the right track and truly trying to help folks in today’s world. I just wish that they would speak out more often.

On the other hand, I also believe that there is a lot of them folks out there that are only in the game for money, or to make a name for themselves.  I also believe that there is a lot of them that are using us as human Ginny Pigs.  I also believe that we are being subjected to things that in turn effects a fellow or gal’s mind and body, an sways their thinking in such ways that it is causing harm to themselves.  Years ago a family relied on what was on hand and had the common sense to make their own decisions.   They also knew when the wool was being pulled over their eyes, so to speak.  I like to think of myself as one of those.   Trouble is, we are a dying breed and if the younger ones don’t catch on fast, this world is going to be in serious trouble.  I have seen a glimmer of hope though here in Canada, as folks lately have started to stand up for themselves and speaking out, not being afraid of what others will think, say or do.  Sadly our younger generation today, about one-third or more believe in ghosts, communication with the dead, extraterrestrials, aliens, Big Foot, etc.  Are you getting what I am trying to say here???  So to sum it all up and pointing directly to those; doctors, lawyers, government officials, ministers, teachers, and pharmaceutical companies, the ones I distrust. I say this, for myself and others like myself:  “Don’t expect us to like you or to listen to you any more. You promised us too much and failed to deliver. You never even tried to answer the questions truthfully that we have all been asking. You have just expected us to believe that what ever you say is the truth. I believe that you are all playing, misusing and abusing our sense of wonder. There is an appetite for wonder, and isn’t true science well qualified to feed it?”

”  It’s time for us to change our ways folks.”  My Opinion Only

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From My Readers

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Hi George.
Here is a comment we received from a loyal reader.
I can relate to the stories, too. Laura looked at the beechwood bush as hers. My mother was the same with her rose bushes. But when she sold her house, the first thing the new owners did was pluck the bushes. I never understood that.
I look forward every week to putting together the photo page, and it wouldn’t be the same without you.
Talk soon.
Maria

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