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Feb 24th, 2010 |
By James Hillis |
Category: Community
Brushes with famous people happen with all of us, we encounter millions of people in our lifetime and sooner or later we intersect with someone who can be called famous. They may not be famous at the time, but become famous later in their lives and your little encounter will ...
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Tags: hespeler, Live, show
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Feb 23rd, 2010 |
By James Hillis |
Category: Community
With another snowfall upon us, and more shoveling required i feel it is mycivic duty to explain the Hespeler way of snow-shoveling. This has beenhanded down to me from my father who got it from his father who gotit..well you get the point. Now in this system of snow shoveling ...
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Tags: fashion, hespeler, house, Toronto, welcome
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Feb 20th, 2010 |
By James Hillis |
Category: Community
I grew up in a big old house in Hespeler, that to me was haunted. And this is one of those story’s that could have been a great Ghost Story, but since that would spoil the ending i will start at the beginning. It was a warm spring Sunday evening ...
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Tags: event, hespeler, house
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Feb 14th, 2010 |
By James Hillis |
Category: Community
Tim Hortons and the Beer Store, what do these two things have in common? Almost every town and city in Ontario has one, and this is about our Beer store. When people ask for directions the Beer Store gets used as a measuring stick”Go down Queen street and you ...
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Tags: beer store, City, crack, galt, hespeler, mayor, Mayor Craig, Ontario, parking, politicians, preston
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Feb 7th, 2010 |
By James Hillis |
Category: Community
This article is in no way an attempt to attack anyone for there views, but just an attempt to explain why we in Hespeler hold the name and our past so dear. So why do we hold on to the Hespeler name? Technically it no longer exists, and half the ...
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Tags: cambridge, Festival, galt, Grand River, Hall, hespeler, house, preston
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Feb 6th, 2010 |
By James Hillis |
Category: Community
A recent discussion on New Hespeler vs Old Hespeler took place today and after thinking things over i came up with a few things that are different though between the old and the new.
New Hespeler call’s them Motor Homes, old Hespeler calls them drive in houses, In New Hespeler they ...
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Tags: fashion, hespeler, house, welcome
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Jan 31st, 2010 |
By James Hillis |
Category: Community
The men who were young at heart started arriving a little after twelve on this cool sunny Saturday afternoon in Hespeler. It was Hockey day in Canada and in about one hour the parking lot of the Hespeler legion would be transformed into a makeshift Hockey Arena and the Men ...
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Tags: event, fashion, Green, hespeler, Ontario, parking, show, tax
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Jan 19th, 2010 |
By James Hillis |
Category: Community
This is a reprint of a previous article I wrote. I had to take the bus today to do some business,as my van was in the shop and I thought about the article. So I am putting it back up.Normally i do not take the bus, but on Saturday the ...
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Tags: cambridge, City, galt, GST, Hall, hespeler, Live, preston, work
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Jan 15th, 2010 |
By James Hillis |
Category: Community
After 30 years of steady employment I now find myself doing what many other Canadians are doing, looking for work. Yes I am a victim of the economy, laid off and over 50 years of age, searching for another job, maybe even another occupation. I mean I have been in ...
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Tags: Hall, hespeler, mayor, Ministry, work
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Jan 11th, 2010 |
By James Hillis |
Category: Community
A Priest, my Mom and a Boot show up on a Sunday Morning, sounds like a bad joke doesn’t it? Well, it didn’t to me on that cold January Morning in 1974. Here is the story as best as I can remember it. Like most 17 year old boy’s in ...
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Tags: hespeler, Ontario, parking, show
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