Your Cornwall Lawyer on Cornwall Tonight With Amanda Logan Speaking About Why and How to Appoint Guardians For Your Children

Posted by on March 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

I was recently on Cornwall Tonight with Amanda Logan and Cogeco TV Cornwall was gracious enough to post a clip of my interview with Amanda. Check it out at the Cogeco site here, or on You Tube here.

The video will give you a quick idea of what many of my seminars are like, but it also gives parents an idea of why and how to appoint guardians for their children. I hope you enjoy it.

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You Don’t Have To Fight For Your Right, Just Vote!

Posted by on October 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Well, it is election time here in Ontario.
Some people think that municipal elections are not that important, but think about all the services your municipality provides to you - roads, transit, policing, parks, recreation, the list goes on.
We are very fortunate to live in a democracy where we can vote in a legitimate election. Your vote does count!
You are eligible to vote if on Election Day you are:
a) 18 years old or older;
b) a Canadian citizen; and,
c) a resident in a municipality or a property owner or tenant or the spouse or same sex partner of an owner or tenant in the municipality during a specified time before the election. This includes a business owner who rents space in a municipality under their own personal name.
You do need to be on the Voter’s List in order to vote (although you can be added on Election Day). If you are not sure if you are on the Voter’s List, you can check on the City of Cornwall web site or by attending at the Election’s Office at City Hall.
If you live outside the City of Cornwall, contact your municipal office to find out about where and when you can vote and to make sure you are on the voter’s list.
In these days leading up to the election, get informed about who is running for office in your area so you can make an informed choice on Election Day. The local media is covering the election almost every day, and many candidates have web sites and are also involved in social media where they are sharing information about their platform.
I’ll step off my soap box now, but please, do get informed and do exercise your right to vote on October 25th (or earlier in advanced polls).
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Hope Springs Eternal?

Posted by on April 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

“Hope springs eternal.” I had to look that quote up to see where it came from.

It is from a line in a poem called “An Essay on Man” by Alexander Pope, written in 1733. Thank you Wikipedia.

With the warmer weather and the spring season upon us, there is a lot of hope in the air. The grass is green, the sun is shining and it is time to wake up and take a look around and what is happening.

For those of you who don’t know, I live on a farm. While we have had animals and cash crops in the past, we now rent out some of our land and the rest we use for ourselves. When we were farming, I used to joke that my husband worked to support his farming habit. The truth was not very far off.

So right now, we have seedlings in the window and our potatoes and onions are already in the ground. My husband has plowed a patch of the hay field that we are going to use to grow some sweet corn for the first time. We will soon be getting a cow to raise over the summer (and put in the freezer in the late fall). There is talk of chickens (laying hens and meat birds), but no little chicks have been brought home yet. My daughter carefully selected some packages of seeds to grow sunflowers and other wild flowers.

We have all these plans and hope that our work right now (and throughout the summer) will yield us some fresh vegetables on our plates (and maybe some eggs if we take the plunge and get laying hens). We hope to fill our freezer with beef and chicken and likely some corn as well by late fall. If we are really organized, we hope to have a cold cellar full of canning and preserves so we can enjoy the fruits (um, or vegetables) of our labour for the whole winter. And, if she takes enough interest in it, my daughter hopes to grow the tallest sunflower in Stormont and Glengarry Counties (she’s already asking how long until the Williamstown Fair).

But really, we could end up with an overgrown garden with rotten tomatoes and potato bugs, a cow who jumps the fence, hens and chickens that get eaten by a fox, a fisher (or our own dog – we have the great turkey chick massacre of 2009 as proof of that) and a patch of wilted sunflowers. We don’t know what will happen. But we have hope.

With this change in seasons, what are you hoping for? Is there something you need to do to bring that hope into reality? Do you need to plant some seeds (literally or figuratively)? Do you need to make a change? Whatever it is you are hoping for, figure out what action you need to take make it happen.

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Rotary Club of Cornwall Annual Pancake Day and Silent Auction

Posted by on March 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

The Rotary Club of Cornwall is hosting its annual Pancake Day on Saturday, March 27th, 2010.

The location will be the same as in past years, at St. John’s Presbyterian Church – Caldwell Hall, located at 28 Second Street East, in Cornwall, Ontario.

The cost is $5.00 for adults and $4.00 for children. If you are interested in tickets, they can be purchased at Allinotte Law Office.

There will be live entertainment, as usual. Graham Greer will be one of the acts performing that morning. This is a great family event.

The Rotary Club of Cornwall is also requesting donations of items for the silent auction. If anyone would like to donate any item or their services, that would be greatly appreciated. You can contact Michele at 613-933-7720 and she will arrange for pick up of the item.

All proceeds from ticket sales and the silent auction proceeds will go to support Rotary community projects such as the Boys and Girls Club of Cornwall and the 3 +1 Project 2010.

Thanks for your support of the Rotary Club of Cornwall. For more information, visit www.cornwallrotary.com.

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