Today’s fun fact is that 39-year-old Alexander Ovechkin can still fire a puck about 100 mph.No wonder he’s about to amass more goals than anyone in NHL history, even Wayne Gretzky, the Brantford son who played hockey with uncommon skill and grace. Today’s other fun fact is that exactly 26 years ago
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Apologies, but today’s offering is on Adolf Hitler. Eighty-six years ago, on March 15, 1939, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia. The Second World War started soon after when he couldn’t resist bombing Poland. Nobody knew what to do with the forest fire that was the German Führer.
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The fun fact for today, March 1, is that it’s Ron Howard’s birthday. You may know Howard for directing some fine movies. “Apollo 13,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “Frost / Nixon,” are a few that come to mind. Way back, he was Opie from “The Andy Griffith Show.” But for anyone still loving the ‘70s, he’s clean-cut Richie
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Dear America – I’m in Lisbon, returning to Canada, thinking of you. Thinking about relationships. About Valentine’s Day. Family Day. Thinking about your threats, of course. “Crazy times,” a young Portuguese man said to me when learning I’m Canadian. Even prior, in Uganda – Uganda! – people looked at
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My phone recently showed me one of those photo montages called Memories. Exactly five years earlier, on a January day, someone took a photo of me standing with a gaggle of Ugandan kids holding hockey sticks, gear that I’d previously brought overseas. It was just before COVID. The kids are very happy.
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Before I get to New Year’s resolutions, here’s Child #3, Hannah. The other day she was the conversation topic around the table. At my turn I shared what I appreciate about my girl, our girl, the birthday girl. I shared that, like a fun-loving otter, she gets me out of myself.
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I have a photo of a Christmas family gathering more than 50 years old. I’m there, at the table, the quiet-looking white-haired boy. The young lady on right, with the round eyes and beaming smile, is my cousin, Margo. Her brother, Gerry, is the enchanting young gentleman behind her.
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Here’s a fun fact. “The Sound of Silence,” the hit song by Simon and Garfunkel, has turned 60. Its birthday slipped by somewhat silently (naturally) several weeks ago. It’s a reminder about the importance of silence, how we need it like we need food. Or air. Now silence is something that you may not know
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