Introducing Nicole Phippen

Nicole Phippen is a Huntsville native with a passion for hand-drumming and learning about ways of living that foster physical and spiritual well-being. She has worked at the Great Vine on Main Street (between travels) for the past 16 years.

Unfortunately, there is no PDF version of the December 31, 2008 Huntsville Forester in the archives. If I locate it, I will post a link.

Introducing someone new

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Introducing Matt Huddlestone

Matt Huddlestone is an actor who moved to Huntsville from Calgary with his wife and daughter just over a year ago.

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Introducing Laurene Armstrong

Laurene Armstrong is the executive director of Muskoka Seniors.

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Introducing Andre Dallaire

Andre Dallaire is a cook, builder and father originally from Chicoutimi, Quebec. For almost 20 years he had the catering contract for the Scarborough Outdoor Education Centre near Kearney, and since 1992 he has also been the cook for a summer camp near Minden.

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Introducing Ruth Wagner

Ruth Wagner is a violin maker with clientele including symphonies from around the world. Hers is also a beautiful love story.

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Introducing Tony Lupton

Tony Lupton is a dedicated coach of minor hockey and soccer who says he's only doing what others did for him as a kid.

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Introducing Linda Rowe

Linda Rowe, a three-time kidney transplant recipient, is co-owner of Muskoka Hearing Aids and is known for her extensive community involvement.

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Introducing Owen Wagg

Owen Wagg is a loader operator at a local quarry and an early morning writer who self-published his novel The Nears of Afar in December of 2008.

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Introducing Louise Garrod

Louise Garrod is a retired Baysville woman who has owned a general store and service station in the village.

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Introducing Gunnar Christensen

Gunnar Christensen is a construction technology teacher at Huntsville High School, aikido sensei, and father of three.

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Introducing Meredith Hiscox

Meredith Hiscox is the Christian education director at Faith Baptist Church as well as a hobby farmer, outdoors enthusiast and mother of two.

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Introducing Doug Howell

Doug Howell is the owner of Pow Wow Point Lodge, a cottage resort on Pen Lake which his parents owned before him. He is also downhill skiing and snowboarding instructor and father of two.

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Introducing Veronica Medon

Veronica Medon is a 17-year-old swimmer who made it to the 2008 Olympic trials in the 100-metre butterfly event.

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Introducing Hugh Holland

Hugh Holland retired to Huntsville after 38 years in various management and engineering positions at GM Canada. He is an active member of the Huntsville-Lake of Bays Rotary Club, and he served on several town committees during the last administration.

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Introducing Lisa Nadrofsky

Lisa Nadrofsky is a personal trainer, co-owner of Images hair salon on King William Street, and active member of Bethel Pentecostal Church.

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Introducing Edd Groomes

Edd Groomes spent 12 years in the Canadian military and competed internationally in the biathlon. Now in the shipping department at KWH Pipe, he has just finished a two-year stint as commanding officer of the local Air Cadets.

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Introducing Christina Simpson

Christina Simpson is the owner of the boutique Me and Mr. Jones. Although just in her mid-20s, she has already had many adventures.

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Introducing Mike Yale

Mike Yale has worked tirelessly over the years for a number of causes including accessibility, poverty reduction and human rights. Blinded by an explosion at age five, he has nonetheless lived a varied and independent life.

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Introducing Vi McQuain

Vi McQuain is a retired mother of three, grandmother of 15, great-grandmother of 23 and great-great-grandmother of one who continues to be very active in various clubs and volunteer activities.

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Introducing Mike Taylor

Mike Taylor is a real estate agent and owner of The Finds on Main Street in Huntsville. He is also a husband, father, musician and outdoor enthusiast.

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Introducing Linda Smith

Linda Smith is an artist and teacher of decorative painting with a studio on Limberlost Road. She is also a school bus driver, LCBO employee, wife and mother.

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Introducing John Fuller

John Fuller is a 97-year-old resident of Muskoka Landing in Huntsville. He came to Canada from England as a "Barnardo Boy" in 1930 and has lived a rich life, most notably as the owner of Manna Park Cottages on Lake Cecebe.

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Introducing Connie Hays

Connie Hays is an activationist with The Friends, an adult daily program for those who require care for a variety of reasons. She also delivers an eight-week program called Living with Stroke, helps at her husband's takeout pizza place, and enjoys Muskoka's outdoors.

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Introducing Scott Roodvoets

Scott Roodvoets is an engineer, actor, singer, Buddhist, husband and father of two teenagers.

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Introducing Doris Thompson

Doris Thompson came to Canada as a war bride in 1924. She is a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother... and long-lost sister to her brother Charlie in New Zealand.

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Introducing Ted Craven

Ted Craven is a computer programmer, horse-racing enthusiast, poet, composer, chess player, and seeker after the "immortal truths of life."

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Introducing Rhoda Moeller

Rhoda Moeller is well known in Baysville as a member of the village's horticultural society, community group, seniors' club and library book club. She made her first visit to her husband Alex's family cottage on the South Muskoka River in 1953, and they have lived there since 1990.

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Introducing John Krochak

John Krochak founded a local self-help group for people with Multiple Sclerosis in 1990, and in 1998 he received a Citation of Merit from the MS Society. He also co-founded Huntsville's accessbility advisory committee.

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Introducing Bess Coleman

Bess Coleman is a doula (someone who provides physical and emotional support to women in labour), mother, soap-maker, photographer and mail carrier.

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Introducing Fred Bezley

Fred Bezley is a veteran and retired fire fighter. He and his wife of 65 years, Jeanne, live at Rogers Cove Retirement Home.

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Introducing Joyce Wilson

Joyce Wilson has cared for more than 100 Huntsville children in her home in the past 23 years. She is also founder of the annual Christmas Arts and Crafts Show at the Huntsville Centennial Centre, a fundraiser for diabetes research and education, which she has been running since 1999.

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Introducing Ken McCaw

Ken McCaw is a father, grandfather, and long-time community volunteer who had one stroke in May of 2007 and another in November of the same year. Every day he works hard to regain his former strength and agility.

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Introducing Ava Bijl

Ava Bijl is a three-year-old fan of stickers who lives near Huntsville with her mom, dad, and baby sister.

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Introducing Frank Berg

Frank Berg is a Music For Young Children teacher with a studio in downtown Huntsville. He is also the musical director for Church Muskoka Style and the director of the Muskoka Music Men barbership choir, a husband and father to three little girls.

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Introducing Debbie Kirwin

Debbie Kirwin moved to Huntsville four years ago with her husband Ross. Since a car accident 16 years ago, she has used a wheelchair to get around. Debbie sits on the town and district accessibility advisory committees and was active on the bid and organizing committees for the 2006 Paralympic Games in Huntsville.

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Introducing Joseph Reijnen

Joseph Reijnen is the owner of Muskoka Jewellery Design on Main Street in Huntsville. After completing one apprenticeship in Holland and another in Germany and emerging as a master silversmith, he decided to come to Canada in 1976. He and his family moved to Huntsville in 1988.

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Introducing Kay Shutt

Now 86, Kay Shutt came to Canada as a war bride. After being treated for two kinds of cancer in the 1970s, Kay became an active volunteer with the Huntsville chapter of the Canadian Cancer Society, a group that still benefits from her time and energy.

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Brian Smith

Brian Smith is an area musician who originally came from the Bahamas. His unusual work hours allowed him to be a stay-at-home dad for his two kids.

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Introducing Freda Healey

Freda Healey is an active member of the Huntsville District Memorial Hospital Ladies’ Auxiliary. She witnessed firsthand the importance of a good hospital when her husband was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2004, and she signed on as a volunteer about six months after his death.

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Introducing Mark Lupton

Mark Lupton has been the owner of Mark's Muskoka Maple since 1976. He spends his summers selling his wares at five Muskoka farmers' markets and the rest of the time working his sugar bush on Britannia Road.

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Introducing Catherine Wyle

Catherine Wyle, manager of Huntsville's Coles bookstore since 1994, is passionate about literacy. She supports the Muskoka Literacy Council, her company's Love of Reading foundation, and works hard to make her store accessible to everyone. Catherine also loves art, water, and learning of all kinds.

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Introducing Andy Bartle

Andy Bartle, the production manager for the Muskoka Roastery Coffee Company, came to Huntsville from England five years ago. He and his wife are both active in Muskoka's theatre community, and they love spending time on their 25 acres north of Huntsville.

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Introducing Doris Gonder

Since retiring to her Menominee Lake cottage with her husband in 1986, Doris Gonder has volunteered countless hours to a variety of organizations in Huntsville, most notably Fairvern Nursing Home, several churches in Baysville, the Baysville Autumn Leaves, Muskoka Seniors, the Canadian Cancer Society and Baysville Horticultural Society.

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Introducing Johnny Langille

Johnny Langille is a proud Maritimer from Lunenberg, Nova Scotia who has made his home in Huntsville for 11 years. He is a church organist, restaurant server and the superintendent of a housing complex.

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Introducing Cheryl Perry

Cheryl Perry is the executive assistant at the Huntsville District Memorial Hospital Foundation. She and her family enjoying boating on lakes around Huntsville, and she keeps busy running her kids to various activities during the school year.

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Introducing Jon Whitelaw

Jon Whitelaw, originally from Barrie, is a third-year member of the Huntsville Otters, the town's Junior A hockey team.

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Introducing Janice Markle

Janice Markle is an employee of Soul Sistas' Wellness Kitchen, has her own cleaning business and volunteers for Muskoka Seniors. The mother of three, she says her immediate and extended family are the most important things in her life.

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Introducing Howard Nadrofsky

Howard Nadrofsky recently retired after 50 years of working in the bush. He is best known around Huntsville as "The Wood Man," supplying firewood to area customers for the past 27 years.

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Introducing Joanne Osborne

Joanne Osborne is a relatively recent arrival to Huntsville. The registered nurse, who has accepted a position with the Algonquin Family Health Team providing geriatric care, loves to be outdoors and has also been volunteering for Hospice Huntsville since arriving last July.

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Introducing Steve Fairhall

Steve Fairhall has been a ski patroller at Hidden Valley Highlands Ski Area since he was in high school about 20 years ago. For the past seven years he has been the patrol's supervisor. In the off-season, he has a maintenance and landscaping business. The father of two, Fairhall also enjoys playing soccer and hockey.

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Introducing Jen McColl

Jen McColl is the mother of five and the leader of Huntsville's La Leche League group.

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Introducing David Marsh

David Marsh is a retired principal who splits his time between Huntsville and Parry Sound. Born and raised in the Arctic, David has spent the last 10 years gathering much-needed items for Inuit communities and arranging for their shipment.

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