Quid et Quo Greetings! “Quid pro quo” is a Latin phrase we have been bombarded with over this past month from our neighbours to the south. Can you say it five times? Even experienced news reporters and politicians catch their tongues stumbling over it. I barely remember anything from my high school days when I did manage to pass Latin. The translation, however, is...

Hi there! The salmon are back in Churchville; it’s their time to return.  Gary and I stood on our bridge over the Credit River one evening last week at dusk and spied two three-foot gray salmon fighting against the strong current in the lower, dark water. They were travelling upstream to a spawning spot after three years of maturing in Lake Ontario.  The...