Volume 14, Issue 7, July 2019

Summer 2019 is really here. Enjoy 13 articles this month when you are on the verandah, on your boat, or on your dock! [Photo by Ian Coristine]

Happenings July 2019

High Water News... It's a small world department... Don Brown... Photographs... Yes, happenings for July 2019.

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Susan W. Smith

2019.06.18 - Year of the Boot II (The Sequel)

Sequels are the bread and butter of Hollywood, so Mother Nature decided to jump on the bandwagon and create a sequel of her own. High Water once again...

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Lynn E. McElfresh

Grenell 1881 - A Must Read This Summer

Lynn McElfresh has written over 130 articles for TI Life and when she began her monthly assignments she was already an accomplished writer h

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Susan W. Smith

End of Year Thousand Islands High School Speeches...

Our alma mater reads “From bridge to lighthouse we are joined with common goal in mind." Our two small River towns have taught us strength in amiability and the importance of intimacy. Just like the River flows, we have flowed through 13 years of school together.

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Madyson Amo, Emily Locke & Sabrina Burns

"The Wind in the Islands," an Animated Audio Book for River Rats...

An animated audio book version of The Wind in the Islands... Performed by Scott's daughter, Merideth, and featuring Scott's animated drawings,

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Scott Ouderkirk

"TI Arts Hall of Fame and a Compass Within"

The Thousand Islands Performing Arts Hall of Fame underscores the importance of the arts in the Thousand Islands. Celebrating the arts inspires us in a time when young people's internal compasses are on the fritz every time they open their phone and scroll through their feeds.

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Susan W. Smith

Celebrating Women in the Great Outdoors at Clayton Show

Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) and Beyond BOW are training and experience programs developed in 1994

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Kara Lynn Dunn

Reviving Zenda Farms!

In celebration of Zenda Farms’ progress and goals, internationally-renowned Steinway artist Ann Sweeten is playing a benefit concert titled Across the Midnight Sky...

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Rebecca Dahl

NOAA's Proposed Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary

There are 13 existing national marine sanctuaries in the U.S. and three under consideration by NOAA, including Lake Ontario. - should there be another in our region?

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Dennis McCarthy

Spectacle Shoal and Red Horse Rock Lighthouses

Spectacle Shoal and Red Horse Rock were among nine lighthouses established in 1856 when the government decided that lighting the Canadian Thousand Islands was a priority.

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Mary Alice Snetsinger

Who Killed Walter Higgins?

Solving the murder of Walter Higgins is not the only mystery in River Rogues… in fact, there are several more mysterious themes that take you down River to Chippewa Bay and also out to Grindstone Island – even into Delaney Bay…

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Susan W. Smith

Clayton Cucumber Bites

The planning, the packing, the prepping.... it’s vacation time!

Book review
Nicole Hartshorn

Sudoku Puzzle #55 and Bonus Puzzle #56

After many months of puzzles, I decided to modify the Puzzle Preparation steps somewhat, and probably should have done it long ago. The frequency of application is often enough to warrant a new Step 1.

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Dan LeKander