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April 8, 2024

56/65 - Bayfield Lavender ~ Gemma James Smith

Milli had an idea a while back to create a few podcasts under the sub-heading of “Pockets of Peace.” To seek out some hidden peaceful gems in Midwestern Ontario and I loved the idea. I’m sure it’s no coincidence that the firs…

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April 1, 2024

55/65 - For The Love Of Goderich – Trevor Bazinet & Ally Anderson

When we set out on this journey, we thought we would be focusing on a lot of places and things that we find amazing about Midwestern Ontario … and I hope we’re still doing that to some extent. What it seems to have evolved into though i…

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March 25, 2024

54/65 - All Roads Lead Home ~ Dave Scott

He’s a husband, father, farmer, former broadcast employee, former mayor, a playwright and an author … I’ll be honest, he’s a true renaissance kind of guy. Of all the things he loves though, right near the top of the lis…

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March 18, 2024

53/65 - How Sweet It Is (Maple Syrup Time)

This week … Our sweetest adventure yet as Milli and I hit the road for a few live “on location” chats. First we’ll visit our friends Ben and Bri at Coastal Coffee to talk about the side adventure they do there with Maple Sy…

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March 11, 2024

52/65 - Kingsbridge Centre + RUNA

One of the things I love about living in a small community is the way people so often face adversity head on, together. Such was the case a few years ago when the community of Kingsbridge experienced the closure of their Church. For decades it had …

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March 4, 2024

51/65 - Young Canada Week (Richard Madge & Rob Bundy)

As a boy, I was hockey obsessed and growing up in Goderich meant I had access every year to the grand-daddy of all hockey tournaments. Young Canada Week began in 1950 as a one-day, 12-team competition for peewee age players and over the years it gr…

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Feb. 26, 2024

50/65 - Owen Riegling ~ From The Heart (+ Listowel Paddyfest)

I have memories of Listowel Paddyfest that go back to the early 90’s but of course it’s been around a lot longer than that. Here’s one of those memories! I call this group the “Dream Team” because together we achieved …

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Nov. 20, 2023

36/65 – And That’s What Christmas Is All About – (Huron County Christmas Bureau & Katrina Clarke)

This week on “A Life That’s Good”  … Milli and I are going to do something on the pod that we would generally avoid … we are going to talk about … Christmas … before December 1st. It’s just an…

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Nov. 13, 2023

35/65 – Remember (Patrick Armstrong & The DMMF)

In 2006, I was visiting a family member at a hospital in London and while walking down the hall I ran into a lady I knew from church who was very distraught, which I found quite unusual for her. She hugged me and asked if I would come with her to pr…

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Nov. 6, 2023

34/65 – Your Gifts Will Make A Place For You – FAUXPOP MEDIA (with Mark Hussey & Randall Lobb)

FauxPop Media is a company providing high-end, professional media production services. They’ve had some big successes in recent years:  Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Blackberry Movie &helli…

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