Seventy-eight years ago, Orazio (Gary) Vincenzo Pillitteri arrived in Niagara with his father to escape political persecution in his native Sicily. Today, his family’s Pillitteri Estates Winery is one of Canada’s most prolific wineries.
Sal Fasullo, a retail team member at Peller Estates, says he wanted to do something with the corks the winery was throwing away every day. “I started to collect them,” he says. “Suddenly, I had more corks than I knew what to do with.”
Shelley Saywell, considered one of Canada’s foremost documentary filmmakers, is the author of a recently published best-selling memoir, “If Only Love: A Memoir of Second Chances.”
An affable, easygoing sort, Michael Bloss, is currently the music director at St. Mark’s Church in Old Town. And, up until this past fall, a full-time pilot for Canada’s leading air service company, Cargojet.
On March 19, Donald Triggs, 82, will be appointed an officer of the Order of Canada in an Ottawa ceremony. “Let’s face it: receiving the Order of Canada is a highlight of my life,” says Triggs proudly.
Quiet and unassuming, Ted Carmichael is not one to broadcast his role in helping direct Canada’s economy, but the advice he and his fellow economists provide is crucial to the central bank’s decision-making — which literally can affect the lives of every Canadian.
Almost 200 years ago, about 90 local townspeople raised enough money to mount a single bell in the belfry at historic St. Mark’s Anglican Church. Beginning this Sunday, June 30, at noon, the St. Mark’s chimes will once again come alive with contemporary music.
D-Day has been called the greatest land invasion ever, the beginning of the end of the Second World War. On June 6, 1944, some 156,000 Allied troops landed on a strung-out 150-kilometre front
Like almost all professional musicians, Jim Bourne wears many musical hats. It’s a hard-won life, fuelled by passion more than money. It is just what he does. Organist, choir master, private tutor, musician,
Margaret Huber helps Niagara Symphony in latest collaboration Margaret Huber is perhaps the only person in the region who could have given the Niagara Symphony Orchestra the counsel it needed. The question:
The Edison Singers, one of Canada’s foremost choral ensembles, is returning to Niagara-on-the-Lake to present the world premiere of Royal Splendour: A celebration of Royal Music in Words, Images and Song, a narrated
Mother Nature works in mysterious ways. On a Saturday in late September, Rudy Enns, warmly embraced a mighty oak tree that stood on the edge of an orchard across from his home on
School of Restoration Arts not accepting first-year students, for now When the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology wanted a chair for its first-ever bachelor of science degree in construction project management, it
Dancer Ryan Sherk one of just 20 students selected for prestigious program Dance phenom Ryan Sherk has one tenacious grandmother in his corner. Ryan, 18, has just been accepted into the world-renowned
For 195 years, the bells of St. Mark’s Church have been heralding important events in Niagara-on-the-Lake, marking disasters, tragedies and celebrations. This summer, on the Sundays of the three long weekends, the chimes
At 72, Jodey Porter has finished an illustrious career as a senior Ontario public servant. She has been, among other roles, an Ontario human rights commissioner, a member of the United Nations
Each spring, the women of St. Mark’s Anglican Church (and a few friends) bake hundreds of cherry pies as the cornerstone of the church’s annual Cherry Festival. Their assembly line would have made
Florals are her muse as Magdalena Titian wanders town on daily walks Almost every afternoon for the last 40 years, Magdalena Titian has wandered around town, picking her favourite routes along the lake,
To help mark the 50th anniversary of the Niagara Nursery School and Child Care Centre, The Lake Report scoured the scant early records of the school, searching for photos and stories that would provide
Identifying the teacher and students of the single inaugural class of the 1973 Niagara Nursery School became a pleasurable crusade, a quest that took The Lake Report virtually around the world from St.
In part 1 of our series last week, The Lake Report provided a glimpse into the early days of what was to become the educational foundation for many of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s young people —
My original idea was to cycle around Prince Edward Island on the new Island Walk Trail, 700 kilometres of panoramic beauty along the backroads and inlets of our smallest province. For the 10th
To help mark the 50th anniversary of the Niagara Nursery School and Child Care Centre, The Lake Report scoured the scant early records of the school, searching for photos and stories that would provide
The Queen’s Jubilee Concert at St. Mark’s Anglican Church on June 4 is a thank you for the monarch’s 70 years of service, says the musical mastermind of the performance, Michael Tansley. A self-celebrated monarchist, Tansley comes by his
Couple are on a quest to rekindle the Sherlock family legacy When acclaimed poet T. S. Eliot wrote “the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and
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