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A TYPICAL FALL WEEK AHEAD

Wednesday / September 8 2010

Editor's Notes: David Harris
Start of Election Coverage

Today we start a profile bio on each of the three mayoralty candidates. I thought it would be fun to show them on one of the most important days of their lives. These pictures will be in the usual spot on the jump page.

One interesting fact I found out on the weekend was a financial benefit I never imagined would result from the G8. It seems the tire repair shops in town did a brisk business after the steel fence was taken down. The workmen doing the dismantling just left the screws on the roads and many ended up puncturing tires. The guy at Walmart that I talked to said they sold a whack of new tires to people passing though Algonquin Park on 60.

Claude Doughty

by: David Harris

Huntsville. We have all arrived here from somewhere else . For Claude Doughty it was from the little town of Walkerton where he was born and raised. An agricultural town of just 3,000 people. A town where his father had a clothing store. A store where Claude worked part time from an early age. A family he valued so much that even when he had finished college, living far away and in his own practice he was lured back to help in the store over the Christmas rush.

Tuesday / September 7 2010

A Couple Of Bones To Pick At

by: David Harris

I kept up with the news in town over the summer by reading the Forester. Thank god I didn't have to rely on what was reported in their pages to keep the Online interesting. There wasn't much going on so you didn't miss much having me on sabbatical. Summer is a time for cottaging and water sports. Not a lot of analysis needed for those activities.

But there were two items that caught my attention, neither of which got any more than a report in the local media. What was lacking and disappointing was any editorial opinion . . . just a listing of the facts. No critical analysis; not my idea of journalism.

Monday / September 6 2010

Editor's Notes: David Harris
Back in the Saddle

We're back. It was a great summer as far as weather, but a rather stressful one for me. My mood over the last few weeks has been about as lousy as the weather was this weekend, worrying about my health and some big physical changes.

I was going to lead with an article today but realized it is a holiday Monday and most of you will be finishing up the long weekend and not at your computers. So tomorrow is when we get started in earnest.

Tuesday will be a review of the summer, a comment on the Hernen affair and a few embarrassing questions about what is euphemistically referred to as the Waterloo building. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday historical bios on each of the candidates for mayor. My hope is I can make it a good first week and from now until the municipal election have the Online be your place for all things political. Come back and see if I've been successful.

Thursday / August 26 2010

Editor's Notes: David Harris
An Update

This summer has not been kind to what little voice I have left. I'm hoping it is like a laryngitis from straining to project golf instruction to 30 or so teens each week at our golf camp in Aurora. But when you've had throat cancer there is always that nagging fear that it may be back.

My surgeon oncologist is on holidays until the end of this month so I am off to Toronto for a check up September 1st. If all goes well you can expect us to get back on line Monday, September 6th.

It should be an interesting fall. See you then.

My Hospital Visit

by: David Harris

I firmly believe there is some female up there that may justly feel I did her dirt and is using her heavenly influence to get back at me. For whatever reason, I am definitely paying for my youthful transgressions.

You have no idea how, when you have been through the horror I have, symptoms crop up that immediately put you in a funk. As the quarterly trip to Mount Sinai gets closer the anxiety builds and by game day I am a quivering blob of jelly. It feels like you are a defendant who has been informed the jury is back and you need to go back into the courtroom to hear the decision. Just like a jury forman, the surgeon looks down your throat with a scope and his verdict has as profound an effect on your future as any murder judgement.

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