Morrisburg Leader
Articles by Phillip Blancher
Published Columns
Wanderings – Addressing Canada’s other, other housing issue
Canada has a housing issue. No, not a supply or affordability issue. Nor is it the lack of people in the construction trades. Our latest, but not latest, housing problem is 24 Sussex Drive, also […]
Friday Wrap
Friday Wrap #30 – It’s just a number
I thought about titling this Friday Wrap “30”, but then I thought better of it. Those with journalism backgrounds know that -30- at the end of a press release means the end of the press […]
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School bus shut down averted
JOHNSTOWN – School buses will be running next week. Eleventh hour negotiations between school transportation consortium Student Transportation of Eastern Ontario, and the Eastern Ontario Bus Operators Association resulted in a tentative agreement Monday afternoon […]
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SDG Rural Education Committee appointed
CORNWALL – The latest iteration of the SDG Counties Rural Education Committee now has members and expects to meet in September.nnSDG Counties council made the appointments at its August 28 council meeting. The seven-member committee […]
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SDG Counties to hire eight full-time staff
CORNWALL – In an effort to retain seasonal winter staff, and complete summer projects, SDG Counties council approved a plan to add eight full-time staff to the Transportation Department.nnThe plan brought forth by Transportation Director […]
Published Columns
Wanderings – The un-handyman learns
Eighteen years of home ownership has taught me a little about fixing, repairing, and then fixing the repair on a home and the contents therein. The year we bought our home my parents gave me […]
Friday Wrap
Friday Wrap #29 – A comic life
Comics and cartoons were a big part of my childhood. I am not alone in that. My formative years were in the 80s and 90s. Saturday mornings were spent watching Bugs Bunny sing classic opera, […]
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$2 million for Port of Johnstown drier project
nnJOHNSTOWN – Federal funding towards a new grain drier for the Port of Johnstown was announced August 18.nnThe funding, through the federal government’s Ministry of Agriculture and Agri-Food’s Agricultural Clean Technology program, will see the […]
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