Smile for Today ~

"Novelists are better off than playwrights.  You can't boo a bad book.  Or if you do you run the risk of being regarded as eccentric."

"There is a deep-rooted conviction in the profession that a good text is one that is easy to learn.  I don't believe it.  I think that in common with most good things a good text is one that is difficult to learn, but even more difficult to forget."

~ Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)  English Actor, playwright, dramatist, author, film maker, newspaper & magazine columnist.
Quotable Ustinov, Doubleday Canada, 1995.

The Grand River Conway Park Cayuga

Conway Park Restaurant is Open ~

Follow the river below the Cayuga bridge and just beyond Bob Baigent Park and the Kinsmen Pavilion there is a little family restaurant.  All-day breakfast $4.75 (incl. coffee or tea) or perch dinner while enjoying the view.  Menus available.

Picnic tables on the riverbank or sit indoors by the window.  Open daily 8:00 to 8:00.

River View From the Window

(Photos taken May, 2012 lbw)

Her Majesty's Chapel of the Mohawks 1785

Brantford

The Heritage Grand River  

Each stop along The Grand has its own beauty.

Available at The Neat L'l Bookshop

Grand Valley Trails Celebrated 40 years.
Visit www.gvta.on.ca

From Rock Point Provincial Park to Alton, ON (near Orangeville) hikers have helped establish a popular trail focused on the Heritage Grand River.

Village of York on The Grand

All Your Gardening Needs

Cayuga and District Chamber of Commerce ~

has a new President, John Edelman, owner of Haldimand Motors.  A whole new movement is afoot!  Cayuga businesses are actively participating in a cooperative media blitz to show the wonderful services available in our district.

Many of you already have a Facebook profile.  Good or bad ~ is it any different than most things?  Facebook is a powerful tool when one wants to reach potential customers.  Facebook is even holding tutoring classes on Parliament Hill for members of Parliament.  There's gotta be something to this.

Check out Cayuga-on-the-Grand, Haldimand Motors, Grand Attractions, etc. and be amazed at the opportunities right here in our community.



Remnants of Pioneer Days ~ Haldimand County

Pierre Berton ~  "I had always seen this quartet of books ~ The National Dream, The Last Spike, Klondike, and now The Promised Land ~ as an epic story that began with John A. Macdonald's dream of a continental railway."

Describing the Winnipeg railway platform, "a gateway to the West" Berton calls it a "symbol for those two formative decades in the country's history...The platform had known the tread of many feet....a springboard for settlement."

Let us forever keep Victoria Day honouring the history of our Canada

* Pierre Berton (1920 - 2004) Non-fiction Canadian Author, best known for his Canadiana and Canadian history.  The Joy of Writing, Doubleday Canada, 2003.



Bring me the sunset in a cup,
     Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dew ;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
     Who spun the breadths of blue !

Write me how many notes there be
In the new robin's ecstasy
     Among astonished boughs ;
How many trips the tortoise makes,
How many cups the bee partakes, ~
     The debauchee of dews !

PROBLEMS by Emily Dickenson

Photo:  Mount Olivet, Haldimand County