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What’s Happening in the Haliburton Highlands – Weekend Weather – Ontario PHOTOS #haliburtonhighlands #weather

Ξ May 4th, 2012 | → 0 Comments | ∇ art/crafts, community, cottage country, Education, entertainment, events, film, Food and/or Drink, fun activity, Haliburton, Haliburton Highlands, Maple Lake Ontario, Minden Hills Township, music, nature, Ontario, Photography, spring, summertime, weather, webcam |

Hey all and a happy Friday to you! Though it appeared to be not so great-looking weather this afternoon in parts of Onatrio, this weekend has some really pleasant weather to enjoy in the Haliburton Highlands. Check it out:

Looks like a perfect weekend to get out and about and as usual there are a host of  activities for a variety of interests:

I’ve not yet checked out the music scene at the Dominion Hotel in Minden but it’s on my list of summer fun time activities. I’m very carefully planning to be sure and partake of the many fun things that somehow I’ve missed out on thus far whilst staying on Maple Lake  as I’ll be there both this spring and summer. If you are in the Minden area this weekend, check this duo out!

There are many more activities this weekend and beyond so be sure to click on the thumbnails to enlarge and read all about them!

 

 

 

What’s Happening in the HALIBURTON HIGHLANDS – Ontario PHOTOS: Spring or Winter? #haliburtonhighlands

Ξ April 24th, 2012 | → 0 Comments | ∇ art/crafts, Canada, community, community services, cottage country, entertainment, family, film, Food and/or Drink, fun activity, Haliburton, Haliburton Highlands, home and garden, Maple Lake Ontario, nature, NON paid Post, Ontario, weather, webcam |

From charitable events with an emphasis on support of communities in the Highlands, to a chance to meet real-time Iditarod adventurer Hank DeBruin to African Film Night and much more, there is always something happening in the Haliburton Highlands that appeals to a diverse range of interests. Speaking of ‘diverse’, that is one word to describe south eastern Ontario weather of late. I snapped some southern Ontario webcam shots today, April 24, which should give you an idea of  conditions in the area right now. Pretty pictures/cold weather.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What’s Happening in the Haliburton Highlands of Ontario! #haliburtonhighlands

Ξ November 2nd, 2011 | → 0 Comments | ∇ art/crafts, Canada, cottage country, entertainment, events, family, film, Food and/or Drink, fun activity, Haliburton, Haliburton Highlands, holiday(s), Lecture, Ontario |

So many good things are happening in the Haliburton Highlands year-round! Whatever your pleasure– a meetup with friends at the Wild Moose for some darts and draft, a film fest, a ‘green’ evening with artist and activist Franke James, or a Santa Claus Parade, there is something for everyone to enjoy! Please read on to get the details. Watch the dates because some of these good times are happening very soon!

 

 

 

 

 

McLuhan’s Wake Documentary – February 4, 2010 – FREE Documentary!

Ξ February 2nd, 2010 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Canada, cottage country, events, film, fun activity, Haliburton Highlands, NON paid Post, Ontario |

When: February 4, 2010
6:30pm (1.5 hours)

No Admission Fee!

NEW documentary released in 2007.

Directed by Kevin McMahon. Performance artist Laurie Anderson narrates this documentary filmed to explore the life and career of Marshall McLuhan while exploring just how the famed educator, philosopher, and scholar’s innovative 20th Century ideas hold up in the years after the millennial turnover.

Minden Hills Cultural Centre
Contact: Laurie Carmount
Tel: 705-286-3763
Email:

gallery@mindenhills.cawww.mindenculturalcentre.ca

Read on for a good sample of “McLuhanisms” for a bit of insight into a man whose ideas were far, far ahead of his time and whose sense of humour helped him make his message more accessible to the masses.

IF IT WORKS, IT’S OBSOLETE

-Marshall McLuhanisms-

The story of modern America begins With the discovery of the white man by
The Indians.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public
incredulity.

Whereas convictions depend on speed-ups, justice requires delay.

The nature of people demands that most of them be engaged in the most
frivolous possible activities—like making money.

With telephone and TV it is not so much the message as the sender that is
“sent.”

Money is the poor man’s credit card.

We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into
the future.

Spaceship earth is still operated by railway conductors, just as NASA is
managed by men with Newtonian goals.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

You mean my whole fallacy’s wrong?

Mud sometimes gives the illusion of depth.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones?

The trouble with a cheap, specialized education is that you never stop paying for it.

People don’t actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath.

The road is our major architectural form.

Today each of us lives several hundred years in a decade.

Today the business of business is becoming the constant invention of new business.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

News, far more than art, is artifact.

When you are on the phone or on the air, you have no body.

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

All advertising advertises advertising.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

“Camp” is popular because it gives people a sense of reality to see a replay of their lives.

This information is top security. When you have read it, destroy yourself.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

One of the nicest things about being big is the luxury of thinking little.

Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s questions.

The missing link created far more interest than all the chains and explanations of being.

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

When a thing is current, it creates currency.

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

Men on frontiers, whether of time or space, abandon their previous identities. Neighborhood gives identity. Frontiers snatch it away.

The future of the book is the blurb. (Just as the future of news was the sound bite.–Cyn)

The ignorance of how to use new knowledge stockpiles exponentially.

A road is a flattened-out wheel, rolled up in the belly of an airplane.

At the speed of light, policies and political parties yield place to charismatic images.

“I may be wrong, but I’m never in doubt.”

—Copyright © 1986, McLuhan Associates, Ltd.