W. Gibb

IROQUOIS – Ten years ago, she wrote A Violent End, the first in a series of mysteries tied to the St. Lawrence Seaway project featuring amateur sleuth  Farran Mackenzie.

The Brother of Sleep and All Mortall Things followed.

Several local fans took the opportunity, Saturday, August 21, to meet author Maggie Wheeler at a book signing for her latest mystery, On A Darkling Plain, which was held at the historic Carman House in Iroquois.

IROQUOIS – Rain  might have poured down on the last three holes at the 2010 Ladies Valley League Tournament held at the Iroquois Golf Club on Sunday, August 15, but it didn’t stop the players from finishing the course.

Five teams from Morrisburg, Iroquois, Prescott, Cedar Glen and Summer Heights took part in the 40th tournament.

MORRISBURG – Ever been to one of those ‘unusual’ weddings?

You know, one where the entire bridal party has appeared dressed like extras in Gone With the Wind?   Or the groom’s family and the bride’s family began throwing drinks at each other in mid reception? Or the bride (or the groom, depending) ran off with the best man between the salad and the entree?

Well, compared to the Westerby nuptials, now on stage at Upper Canada Playhouse in the new production, There Goes the Bride, those weddings are tame.

The 2010 Tubie Weekend,  held under perfect weather conditions, drew large crowds to the Morrisburg waterfront July 31 for a gala parade and August 1 for the actual Tubie Race.

This year’s much anticipated Tubie races were very fast, and hard fought, with a new river record being set by the winning Robert Farlinger Tubie team. The Farlinger team brought their craft ashore at the Morrisburg beach in a time of 5:58,  actually beating their winning time of 6:10 set in 2009.

With this win, Farlinger’s will now have their name engraved on the Danny Cassell Memorial Trophy, presented to the winning team, more than any other. This is their eighth Tubie race win.

IROQUOIS – “I was afraid it was going to flip over,” said Irma Jackson who watched the 1967  four-seater Piper Cherokee 180, piloted by Robert Lams, his wife Francine on board,  as it overshot the runway at Iroquois Airport at 11:22 a.m., Sunday, July 25.

“You hate to see something like this happen,” said Jackson, who lives near the end of the runway, “but it could have been worse.”

Robert Lams, who has been a private pilot for 30 years, and has owned the Cherokee for 20 years, left Rockcliffe Airport to travel to Iroquois with four other planes early on Sunday morning.

IROQUOIS – “We were a little nervous three days ago. The airport grounds were like a lake,” said John Ross, Iroquois Air Port manager, “but a strong wind cleared things up and no thunderstorms rolled in. It was great flying weather, as was obvious by the huge turn-out on Sunday.”

MORRISBURG - The controversy begins on June 6, 1944.

As exploding underwater mines and incoming artillery shells pummeled the ‘second wave’ at Juno Beach near Bernieres-sur-Mer, a Lt. Gilbert A. Milne, Royal Canadian Navy, leaned over the side of the landing craft he was riding in, and took a single  black and white photograph.

He shot  a sister landing craft, designated LC 299, steaming to the Normandy beach.

RIVERSIDE  HEIGHTS – The weather held for the 9th annual Garry Shaver Easter Seals Blooperball Tournament which took place at the Riverside Heights Ball Diamonds on Saturday, June 19. This year, seven teams from South Dundas and the surrounding areas took part. 

A total of $3,030 was raised  for the Easter Seals Society.

Kevin Markell’s team carried off the honours as overall winners at the day long tournament. 

WILLIAMSBURG – “In 1985,  many of you may have been at the official opening of the Park Drive Villa where we were welcomed by reeve Johnny Whitteker, Claude Bennett, the minister of tourism and recreation and our MP Noble Villeneuve,” said James Kooistra, chair of the Board of Directors of the Williamsburg Non-Profit Housing Corporation, Saturday, June 19, at the Villa.