"There are two kinds of people:  those who wear badly and those who wear well.

     The folk who wear badly usually begin by making a good impression. . .they are so pleasant, ready to flatter, and so eager to help.  But as time goes on you find them just not as wonderful as you were sure they were at first.
     The second type are folk who, at first, are perhaps a bit too quiet, anything but fascinating or amusing and certainly never showy. . .but as time goes on you discover they mean what they say, they lend a hand, and you can depend upon them.  The first wear badly.  The others wear well."

~Francis Gay, The FRIENDSHIP BOOK, 1969

Haldimand County

"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."

~ Charles Kuralt (1934 - 1997) American Journalist, CBS "On The Road"

"How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else."

~ R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983) Designer, architect (Montreal Biosphere, 1967)

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Scottish novelist, poet.


"Not all who wander are lost."

~ J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973) English writer, university professor.

Haldimand County

Cayuga and District Chamber of Commerce is requesting that businesses in Ward 2 submit questions for an upcoming Candidates Debate.  What issues are of most concern to you as a business in the Cayuga area?

The building of a historic new bridge and the planned revitalization of downtown Cayuga begs two important questions from our perspective.  What can council do to cleanup the existing eyesores on Talbot St. and what can council do to provide free public parking on the main street, Talbot (Hwy 3)? [Addressed in post of July 30, 2014 ~ Cayuga-on-The-Grand]

Thank you to all community-minded individuals who are allowing their names to stand in the October municipal election.

"Being busy does not always mean real work.  The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration.  Seeming to do is not doing."

~ Thomas Alva Edison (Feb. 11, 1847 - )ct. 18, 1931)  American businessman, inventor.

Let's express our thanks to all the community-minded individuals who are allowing their names to stand in the upcoming municipal election.

"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree"

Helen Keller, perhaps the most famous blind and deaf person in history, on one occasion invited a member of the audience to play the music to which Joyce Kilmer's* famous poem 'Trees' was set.  A young blind pianist came up and proceeded to play the tune.  Helen stood with her hand on the piano lid ~ feeling the vibrations.

When it was all over, she thanked the pianist, saying, "The way you played that music, I could feel the sound of the leaves in the wind."

Source:  Francis Gay, The Friendship Book, 1999.Tuesday.

*Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918) America writer, poet.

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.  If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

~ Warren Buffett

"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.  So there is no need of defining it."  ~ L.M. Montgomery

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
~  Amelia Earhart

"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Source:  Treasury of Wit & Wisdom, 4,000 of the funniest, cleverest, most insightful things ever said.  Reader's Digest.2006.

 

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