Community Corner

Yearbooks mark passages. They express hopes, dreams, best wishes. In front of the alter at this year's Memorial Mass for Alumni the display of yearbooks marked the graduation years of those whose names were read. There were the expected and the unexpected. Graduates of the 90's. One from last year. Mass was concelebrated by Fr. Anthony from the ...

  The view is great. Lake Erie stretching out to Canadian shores. When homesick, I would stare out the third floor window, unconsciously reconciling the tensions. On one side the friendships of fellow boarders. On the other family, friends and far deeper familiarity. The view now slightly altered by time and economy. Blazing smokestacks ...

Occassionally I teach at Ryerson. In one of the courses, Information Architecture, we discuss language and audience within information spaces. I use the online Rap Dictionary, a wiki based compendium of hip-hop slang as a discussion reference. It is an example of the role of language enriching group communications and also creating exclusivity ...

Living downtown is noisy, crowded, and busy. The jadedness you encounter is often a survival mechanism. Too many stimuli. Every once in a while something is impossible to ignore. The visual noise that is Yonge and Dundas couldn't compete with today's camels. Four of them promoting a new CBC show, Little Mosque on the Prairies. Add in the ...

The following is from a handout provided by Robert H. Bohlke, one of my Sociology professors at American International College - A man of passion and reason who contributed both to student sensibilities. The Business Elite, “The New Masses” and The Urban Crisis By Robert H. Bohlke (undated - received in 1969) As one who was weaned ...

The New York Times, Sunday, November 24, 1968 by John Leo Liberals and radicals who view big business as the chief obstacle to social reform have the right instincts but the wrong villain according to Robert Heibroner, the economist. "The question that continually impresses and depresses me is why is it that the most rudimentary adaptations ...

I am thankful for many blessings. I was born into a loving family in a caring Missouri neighborhood, in a land, which cherished and protected my freedom. After graduating from St. Louis University Engineering School I served my country as a Pilot in the USAF. In 1960 I left my career as an engineer to serve God and my country as a missionary in ...

Every year I am amazed at the organization of the Our Lady of the Snows Parish Picnic in Mary's Home, Missouri. This picnic has been going on for over 100 years. No one has to tell the parishioners when to start, where to start or what to do. After so many years it just happens. Managers begin to order supplies, food, tents, port-a-potties and ...

The largest fresh water beach in the world is less than 2 hrs. drive north of the city. Each summer we try to spend at least one long weekend in Wasaga Beach. Its reputation as a wild biker town is long gone. With enough beach to accommodate all ranges of ages and attire, one can be alone or surrounded by thousands. The major highlight is ...

Son Simon and daughter in law Beth recently treated us to a beautiful day sailing and picnicing around Toronto Harbour. Sharing my appreciation of things technical, Simon uploaded his GPS positions then printed out our route. A level of surveillance previously available only to the military can now be bought anywhere. No more scribbling on ...