February 18, 2021 · 0 Comments
By Robert Belardi
Sometimes we ask the curious question, how are our athletes from Caledon doing in their respective leagues? Especially since all professional and semi-professional leagues continue to be hampered by COVID protocols and the ‘what-ifs’ when a team and/or player come down with the virus.
Let’s take the Vegas Golden Knights, for instance. Last week, against the Anaheim Ducks, Knights forward Thomas Nosek was yanked midway through the game because of a positive test.
That, of course, raises a few eyebrows. Not only is COVID a cause for raising concern, but the Knights have already had three games postponed thus far this year.
February 16, 2021 at 12:57 pm
It was a cold, overcast Saturday morning in Salem, Ore., when Jesse Laney set out to catch a glimpse of a painted bunting. He’d heard earlier that week through a birding WhatsApp group that this vibrant, rainbow-colored bird was in the area. Painted buntings (
Passerina ciris) are common in places like Texas and the northern parts of Mexico, but a rarity in Oregon. Laney and his sons raced to the site and began searching but the bird eluded them.
He wasn’t too disappointed, though. Just the chance of seeing a rare bird “scratches the ever-present itch of participating in a small bit of discovery,” says Laney, an ecologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis.
Columnist Students at North Country School in Lake Placid show off the eggs they had just harvested on the school farm. (Photo provided) North Country School students with clipboards in the snow participate in a “snowpack lab” for their Earth science course. (Photo provided) Alicia Keefer, a preschool teacher at St. Agnes School, readies a student to go outside. (Photo provided) From left are St. Agens School Principal Catherine Bemis. School and Family Support Coordinator and Spark Program Director Katie Turner. (Photo provided)
Students at North Country School in Lake Placid show off the eggs they had just harvested on the school farm. (Photo provided)
Jan 26, 2021 The way we socialize and see friends during the COVID-19 pandemic has changed drastically. To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, keeping our social distance, wearing masks, and hanging out outdoors have become norms.
Of course, balmy summer temperatures are a lot easier than January snowstorms.
Amy FeiereiselBonfires and social skis: Hanging with friends during the COVID-19 winter
Socializing in Drew Cullen s backyard. Photo courtesy of Drew Cullen.
Creativity and champagne in Newcomb
Drew Cullen lives in Newcomb, and says that for much of the coronavirus pandemic, he’s felt somewhat guilty about his access to the outdoors, “people in a single apartment in Manhattan not able to go out for weeks on end, we felt like we were cheating!”