by Michael Hammond | Sep 28, 2016 | Providence Flashbacks
Sacred Heart Convent, King City, between 1946-1948. Left to right: Sr. Mary Laura Otterson, Sr. Mary Magdalen Collins, Sr. Mary Aloysia Killeen, Sr. Mary Georgina Boland BY VERONICA STIENBURG, ARCHIVIST The Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul served in King...
by Michael Hammond | Sep 28, 2016 | Community Harvest Market, Integrity of Creation and Climate Change
It was an event day. A festival. There was music. Food for the taking. An artist making dragons and tigers out of boys and butterflies and flowers out of girls. Even though it was the end of September, the Community Harvest Market in Kingston’s North End was...
by Michael Hammond | Sep 15, 2016 | Peru News
BY SISTER SARA AND PROVIDENCE ASSOCIATE ELSA LEGUIA For six years we have been working in the rural town of “Fray Martin”. Many families here have come from different areas in the country-side, like the sierra, the jungle and the coast. Many are young families, but...
by Michael Hammond | Sep 1, 2016 | Community Harvest Market, Integrity of Creation and Climate Change
Over 100 visitors turned out for Community Harvest Market’s Special Event on August 26. Regular produce and craft vendors, as well as Community Harvest Kingston itself, which sells a variety of fresh, healthy produce from its own urban, organic gardens, were on hand....
by Michael Hammond | Aug 17, 2016 | Justice, Prison Farms
The Save Our Prison Farms organization put out the message that the town hall meeting being hosted by Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and Corrections Services Canada was “a pivotal moment,” in the struggle to re-instate prison farms. And their call...
