End of Summer. Monarch butterflies gathering silently in the tree branches on Lake Erie shore. Haldimand County, Ontario.

Stop by the Neat Little Bookshop. We have a new photo display.

Cayuga Village Centre

Flower boxes along Highway 3 and Cayuga Street provided by the Cayuga and District Chamber of Commerce.

The regular breakfast meeting is on Wednesday, September 8 at The Gingerbread House Restaurant on Highway 54.

Thought for Today:

"The heart hath its own memory,
like the mind,
and in it are enshrined
the precious keepsakes
into which is wrought
the giver's loving thoughts."


~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (1807 - 1882)

Photo: by Lorna. Mount Olivet Haldimand County

Sights on Jarvis ~

Our hearts are broken this morning. We have lost one of our own. Robert Schweyer passed away late Thursday evening, September 2.

Robert is the well-known, respected author of the historical WWII book, Sights on Jarvis.

We extend our sincerest condolences to his wife, Cindy, Sarah and Mathew and to the rest of Robert's family and friends.

Imagination

Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the Willows, believed that imagination is a "higher gift." We watch a beautiful three-year-old play throughout a day creating a series of fascinating imaginary worlds.

Using few props, she excitedly draws the adult into her games incorporating stories that she has been told, experiences that she has had in her short three years and her childlike, innocent imagination. The line between fantasy and reality is indistinguishable, barely defined.

In Joy of Books, Eric Burns expands on Faulkner's theory that a story comes from three sources: observation, experience, and imagination. Faulkner explains that it is hard to know just how much comes from which source.

We watch our three-year-old go off to Junior Kindergarden on September 8. Will her imagination survive or will she be channelled and moulded into a replica of students who came before and those who will inevitably follow?

Sights on Jarvis ~ Haldimand Ontario

Newspaper clipping* launching Robert Schweyer's book, Sights on Jarvis, a documentation of the Second World War years at the Jarvis training school for pilots from all over the world.

We join with our readers in sending our thoughts and prayers to our friends, Robert Schweyer and family.

~ Please get well soon, Robert.

* Times - Reformer, Vicki Hartlen.

Lake Erie at Kohler Road

Quagmire ~ A series of alterations to the ditching/culvert system along Lakeshore Road and the construction of a significant rock pier, have reduced the lake's natural ability to renew itself.

Stagnating sludge and noxious weeds *

What used to be one of a few public accesses to a small, sandy beach on a cove has turned into a stagnant swamp. Lakeside owners vacation steps away from this sixty-six foot road allowance.

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The village of Cayuga is located on the Grand River which flows into Lake Erie. Kohler Road/Lakeshore is fifteen minutes from Cayuga.

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* For larger images, click on picture. For additional photographs and information, search Lorna Walker on Facebook. Property owners have contacted Haldimand County, Ward 2 councillor for help in cleaning up our lakefront.

http://www.haldimandcounty.on.ca/ for tourism maps of Ontario's South Coast.