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Congratulations Canadian Author Alice Monroe winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature.  Three-time winner of the Governor General's Award for fiction and winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her life-time body of work.

Progress and Poverty (1879)*

"This association of poverty with progress is the great enigma of our times.  It is the central fact from which spring industrial, social, and political difficulties that perplex the world, and with which statesmanship and philanthropy and education grapple in vain. . .It is the riddle which the Sphinx of Fate puts to our civilization, and which not to answer is to be destroyed.
"So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent."  Introductory:  The Problem

~ HENRY GEORGE (1839 - 1897) American economist, single tax proponent.

*"Few other American books and certainly no other economic treatise exercised a comparable influence in the world at large/" ~ Henry Steele Commager, Living Ideas in America.

Smile For Today

 

Village Green...and Red and Yellow

Only in a used bookshop ~

Purchased in The Neat L'l Bookshop BIG MAN COMING DOWN THE ROAD, Penguin Canada, 2007. "UNCORRECTED AND UNPUBLISHED PROOFS - CONFIDENTIAL"   Unpublished proofs are the preliminary copies sent out to select critics and media ~ not distributed to the public.

There are often changes in text and/or graphics in the finished product.  For example, the cover of BIG MAN, does not include the lady with the whip!

l - r Chris Maher, Ron Edwards, Pat Lightfoot, Ron Neville

Members of the Haldimand-Norfolk Stewardship Council met at the OPG on Saturday, October 12, for a planning meeting.  Susan Thurston, OPG representative and Council member, facilitated.

"Dedicated volunteers and stakeholders who share a concern for the environment" discussed on-going programs and projects.The Norfolk Land Stewardship Council and the Haldimand Stewardship Council joined together after the Ministry of Natural Resources withdrew Stewardship funding across the province.

For information on the work of the Stewardship and how you can get involved, visit www.hnstewardshipcouncils.org

The office of Haldimand-Norfolk Stewardship Council is located on Cayuga Street, Cayuga, Ontario.

*Ontario Power Generating

"Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine."

~ Walter Cronkite (1916 - 2009)  American broadcast journalist.