
Story and photos by Rick Gorski St. George’s Anglican Church parishioner Grant Johnston, age 95, tapping sugar maples on his property in Glen Williams. (March 25, 2013) Grant, born and raised on Manitoulin Island, recalls the changes in collecting maple sap and making syrup from his youth and today. Then the family farm required everyone’s’…

This past Saturday, I went to the Willow Park Ecology Centre. From their website, “Willow Park Ecology Centre is a year-round nature preserve that provides habitat for native plants and animals. It is approximately 2.1 hectares (or 5 acres) in the floodplain bounded by the West Branch of the Credit River (Silvercreek) and the main…