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Journalist. Author. Father. GrandPaul. Born Dec. 14, 1939, in Winnipeg; died March 12, 2023, in North Vancouver, after a stroke; aged 83

AUBURN — It was the mid-1980s, and the widowed mother of Ellen England, Mary Brandon Husselman, was downsizing to a smaller house in her hometown of Auburn.

A woman found a sack of letters written by her father, who she never got a chance to meet.

Sypher Studios have announced its upcoming documentary, War Unfolding, narrated by four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening and featuring an all-star cast including Eliza Bennett, Rachel Bloom, Gary Cole, Abigail Cowen, Oscar-winner Laura Dern, Monique Edwards, SAG Award winner Michael C. Hall, SAG Award winner Kelvin Harrison Jr., Golden Globe winner Paul Walter Hauser, Thurn Hoffman, Richard T. Jones, Jay Lee, Erick Lopez, Sandra Seacat, Oscar-winner Wes Studi, DeWanda Wise, and others.

An exhibition at the Timmins Museum this month is inspired by correspondence letters during both world wars.

FORT DRUM — “I just hope that I made you proud, and if I don’t come home for any reason I just want you to know I’ll always be with you.” These words were penned by Sgt. Joshua M. Harapko in a letter to his mother, Pat Moran, before the battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan in 2001. Sgt. Harapko survived the battle and came home alive, but later died in a routine training exercise on Fort Drum in 2003 at the age of 23. Soon, his words, along with those of his fellow brothe...

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