Jones, Jean M.

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Jean Jones is a workplace mobbing specialist and a passionate advocate for workplace mental health. As well, Jean is a business coach, who will be certified as a Solution-Focused Brief Coach in 2013. Her solution-focused coaching approach empowers clients and reinforces their resourcefulness. Jean received a M.A. at the University of Toronto specializing in organizational change management and business coaching. Previously she directed corporate expansions and project management operations. Prior to change management consulting, Jean directed municipal amalgamation projects, following numerous years of senior municipal administration. For many years, Jean was the administrator, on alternating days, of two municipalities in Central Ontario. She lives in Lindsay, Ontario.

 

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Lisa Hart

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Lisa spends most of her time looking at the world from the perspective of her preferred target audience – young readers. Along with her work for children’s magazines she has produced reading comprehension material for K5 Learning and Super Teacher Worksheets. While she focuses primarily on nonfiction articles, her fiction, poetry and works for adults have been well received. In 2017 she placed in Red Toque Publishing’s Canadian Tales of the Fantastic. Lisa is currently writing occasional features for The Lindsay Advocate.

Website:

https://llheart.wixsite.com/lisahart

Author of:

Ghosts, Hauntings, and Stories of Old

Feathers, Fur and Fun Facts

Gural, Altaire

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Altaire Gural is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada, with her play Forgotten having been performed by schools and theatres in Canada, the U.S, England, Scotland and Australia. She received an Ontario Arts Council Grant to turn Forgotten into a novel, which is almost completed, as well as developing several screenplays for limited series and features. In her non-writing life , Altaire is a professional acting coach with students in lead roles in film and television, and directs plays for youth theatres in the Kawartha Lakes and elsewhere. https://equityintheatre.com/member/altaire

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Kevin Frank

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Kevin Frank is a cartoonist and graphic novelist.

Author website: http://kevinfrank.net

Laugh-out-loud funny! Perfect read aloud and a wonderful companion to any story time circle. Graphic novel format introduces visual storytelling alongside humorous dialog and plot.
This fully illustrated middle grade graphic novel for kids who like silly books will take you on a swashbuckling journey like no other! Join a comical cast of backyard pets – Captain Hooktail, First Mate Chubs, Helmsman Patch and Tinkles – as they hunt for treasure (at the local butshop) and fight with sworn enemies (alley cats!).

Scurvy Dogs
True North
Balaam’s Chicken
Alex and the four-headed gargantuan

Fleming, Rae Bruce (1944-2022)

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From RB Fleming’s website:

R B Fleming (MA, PhD) is a biographer and historian whose published works include two local histories, Eldon Connections (1975) and Argyle, A Pioneer Village (1976); a biography of a Sir William Mackenzie (The Railway King of Canada, 1991); a picture book about Canadians who came out to see King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939 (The Royal Tour of Canada, 2002); and a well illustrated book about Canadian general stores called General Stores of Canada: Merchants and Memories. He has edited several books, including Boswell’s Children, The Art of the Biography (1994), which includes his own essay on Mackenzie; and The Wartime Letters of Leslie & Cecil Frost, for which Fleming wrote an extensive Introduction. His latest book is Peter Gzowski, A Biography, an acclaimed portrait of one of Canada’s greatest broadcast journalists.

http://www.rbfleming.net

Obituary for Rae Fleming

May 17, 1944 – April 25, 2022 (https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/mykawartha/name/rae-fleming-obituary?pid=202015573)
Local historian, author, and lecturer, Rae Bruce Fleming passed away in Lindsay April 25, 2022. Born to parents Victor and Myrtle (Mitchell) Fleming, Rae grew up and lived most of his life in Argyle. He authored several books of local history and biography, among them Eldon Connections: Portrait of a Township; The Railway King of Canada, Sir William Mackenzie, 1849-1923; Gzowski: A Biography; and most recently edited and contributed to Looking for Old Victoria County and its sequel, More Surprising and Intriguing Things About Old Victoria County. A dedicated world traveller and swimmer, Rae was active in many historical societies and organizations including The Lindsay Canadian Club, The College Community Choir, as well as his book club and “coffee klatch.” Rae is predeceased by his parents and sister Helen (late George) Cameron. He is survived by his niece, Jane (Garry) Veale, great niece and nephews Joanna (Rob) Jeffery, John (Ashley) Veale, and Geoff Veale as well as five great-great nieces.