Coverage enhanced celebration of local history

Re “The Allen released” (July 22) —

Opportunities to celebrate history at the personal level are infrequent for most in a lifetime. Opportunities to celebrate the history of one's community are more frequent. To celebrate both in juxtaposition is rewarding in one's lifetime. This past weekend our family was able to honour and celebrate six generations as pioneers and descendants in Douro Township with neighbours, friends and family.

The staff of our daily newspaper, the Peterborough Examiner, brought their journalistic expertise to our sharing this event with you our fellow citizens of the county. In every way, the newspaper staff extended a most kind and generous spirit in covering the story and helping to bring the history of our past to a present reality. We wish to take this opportunity to compliment them for their fine journalism, and in sharing this small window, one of many of our county's pioneering past.

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History integral to life in contact with the community. To the staff who maintain this medium for us with outstanding expertise and spirit of community we say thank you. ROSEMARY McCONKEY

Ashburnham Dr. BOB and SUZANNE ALLEN

Hwy. 28, Douro ble dog owner who keeps my dogs leashed at all times and picks up after them. As I was walking back, a man (not a gentleman) in a ball uniform said to one of the city employees who was preparing the park, in a loud voice that I could hear halfway across the park "What's that woman doing walking her dogs here? I don't see her bag," to which I replied, "Because they haven't done anything!"

Now I know full well that there are dog owners who don't pick up after their dogs, but it was wrong of this man to assume that I was one of them, just as it would be wrong of me to assume that, because he wears a ball uniform, he's an ignorant jock.

It seems every day there are fewer and fewer places to walk your dogs. For example, the area now being developed as soccer pitches between Bowers Park and St Joseph's at Fleming was once a lovely field to walk full of wildflowers and butterflies.

I have just as much right to walk my dogs as this man does to play ball. Not everyone is fit enough to play sports. I have severe arthritis and I need to walk to keep mobile, as do many other seniors. So, sir (and I use that term loosely), perhaps you should not speak until you know of what you speak.

And by the way, when I am walking my dogs I often pick up garbage that his lot has left behind, sometimes right beside the garbage can! Can't we all just get along? ANNE CORKE Cathcart Cres. Cavan Monaghan