by Michael Hammond | May 3, 2013 | Peru News
BY SISTER GAYLE DESARMIA San Martin is a small town about eight kilometres from El Progreso. About 80 families live there. They are poor and very hardworking. Early every day they go to their fields to cultivate broccoli, onions, potatoes and other vegetables. It is...
by Michael Hammond | May 3, 2013 | Heirloom Seed Sanctuary stories
BY CATE HENDERSON Peas are a lovely cool-weather crop, one of the first seeds to actually be planted in the soil of the gardens, even when it is still too cold for most vegetables. One of the pea varieties is called Champion of England. What a glorious name! According...
by Michael Hammond | Apr 10, 2013 | Obituaries
Sybil Marie Costley was born on January 23, 1932 in St. John, New Brunswick. At 18 months of age she was adopted by George Costley and Margaret Helen McKinnon. They had earlier adopted another daughter, Margaret, affectionately known as Maggie by Sybil and became a...
by Michael Hammond | Dec 14, 2012 | Obituaries
Sister Gracia Whalen (Catherine Agnes Whalen) of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul died peacefully on December 14, 2012 at Providence Motherhouse, Kingston, Ontario in the 71st year of her Religious Life. Sister Gracia was born in Belleville, Ontario on...
by Michael Hammond | Nov 23, 2012 | Obituaries
Mary Leona Fitzgerald was the third of eight children born to Catherine Agnes McAlpine and Patrick Fitzgerald on February 23, 1919 in Greenview, Ontario in a small farmhouse reached only by a road through the fields. She attended elementary school in Greenview, Grades...
