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Growing More Than Vegetables: The Heart Behind the Victory Garden
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Growing More Than Vegetables: The Heart Behind the Victory Garden

Each year, dedicated volunteers generously donate their time, energy, and expertise to ensure the garden flourishes. From planning and planting to watering, weeding, harvesting, and maintaining the garden throughout the growing season, countless hours are invested by individuals who believe that no family in our community should go without access to fresh, healthy food.

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Maryboro Lodge Personality: Harry Van Oudenaren
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Maryboro Lodge Personality: Harry Van Oudenaren

When he was 16, his country was invaded by the Germans. When he turned 18, he was required to go to a compulsory labour camp. Often hungry, he survived having the camp bombed by the American air force, then was liberated when his guards fled before the advancing Russians would have captured them.

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Nominate an Environmental Hero
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Nominate an Environmental Hero

Environmental Heroes live right here in Kawartha Lakes. Whether they're planting pollinator gardens, restoring natural spaces, reducing waste, protecting wildlife, or inspiring others to act, now is the time to recognize their efforts.  

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Maryboro Lodge Personality: Sir William Mackenzie
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Maryboro Lodge Personality: Sir William Mackenzie

Years earlier, he had given his old Kirkfield classmate, Pat Burns, a contact to supply meat to feed railway workers. Mackenzie owned stock in Burns’ company, which would later become part of Maple Leaf. Who would have imagined that two Kirkfield school chums would one day become two of Canada’s leading businessmen?

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Maryboro Lodge Personality: Mossom Boyd
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Maryboro Lodge Personality: Mossom Boyd

Mossom Boyd rose to become one of the best-known and most successful timber barons in Canada. After the railway reached Lindsay and the colonies of British North America signed a Reciprocity Treaty with the United States, American lumber exports superseded the British timber trade as the primary market.

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