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
Sean Simpson, owner of two pharmacies in Niagara-on-the-Lake, is the third generation of the Simpson family helping keep his community healthy. Just shy of 100 years ago, Sean’s grandfather graduated from
Former family homestead continues to evolve as acclaimed School for Restoration Arts When Willowbank, the picturesque heritage estate on the hill overlooking the village of Queenston, was saved from a wrecking ball
Our trek was 9.6 kilometres — about 33 minutes of actual riding. The wineries open at different times, but you’d be safe if you hit the first at 11 a.m. All four wineries offer
I met Doug Garrett last spring, just at his 94th birthday. I had identified Doug as someone The Lake Report readers might like to know more about. I went to visit him at
The last word in our four-part saga of the Foam goes to the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, one of North America’s most respected sailing and yachting organizations. It was from the club’s sheltered harbour
On Saturday, July 11, 1874, the sloop Foam, with seven sailors aboard
This is the first in a series of stories about the sinking of the Foam, one of the worst tragedies in Lake Ontario maritime history. The incident is shrouded in mystery and many fundamental questions remain impossible to answer.
After two years of uncertainty, the festival's braintrust can heave a sigh of relief When the Shaw Festival announced next year’s 60th anniversary season a few weeks ago, you could almost hear a
Renowned polio fighter speaks virtually to 60 district Rotary clubs When Syme Jago spoke to the Niagara-on-the-Lake Rotary Club last year about her decades-long personal fight against post-polio syndrome, the 76 local members
If Bill French has his way, the Niagara-on-the-Lake Rotary Club, with help from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will contribute a total of $60,000 to help finally eradicate polio around the world.
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To hear Scott MacSween tell it, his family’s 250-acre tender fruit business is founded on serendipity, a lucky moment in time when things just turned the right way for him and his soon-to-be-wife,
It was probably Plato who coined the phrase: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” But as we crawl our way out of the pandemic, Shaw Festival executive director Tim Jennings could very well have said
Debi Goodwin's love for digging in the dirt was cultivated on her family's fruit farm It was Audrey Hepburn who once said: “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” It is also
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