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Kool & The Gang – The Celebration Continues
By David DeRocco dave@gobeweekly.com https://twitter.com/?lang=en There’s no real formula for success in the music business. Sometimes, it’s just the right mix of talent, timing and songs. Other times, it’s as simple as a name change. Take the Jersey City...
How 3PL Companies Are Mitigating the Impact of Covid19 on Supply Chain
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany said it. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it. Responsible leaders of nations around the world receptive to medical facts are saying it: to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus a.k.a. Convid 19, it’s going to take a concerted...
Symphonically Hip — NSO Gets Strictly Hip
By David DeRocco The musical roots of The Tragically Hip have always been deeply planted in Canadian soil, a badge of honour for patriotic fans who like the fact the Hip have always been Canada’s best kept secret. However, the seeds of the idea for an upcoming...
Kim Mitchell — Canada’s Newest Songwriting Hall of Fame Member
By David DeRocco dave@gobeweekly.com https://twitter.com/?lang=en There are currently 50 names in the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the non-profit, bilingual, apolitical and national hall founded in 1998 to effectively deal with the...
Camp Maple Leaf: Indigenous Teachings Add To Camp Experience
The Kawartha Lakes are a chain of lakes in south-central Ontario that form the upper watershed of the Trent River. Among the lakes included in the chain is Pidgeon Lake, which sits just west of Buckhorn Lake and, slightly further east, Curve Lake. Within Pidgeon Lake...
Dewey Bunnell: Captain AMERICA
By David DeRocco As a country America may have a bit of an international image problem right now. But as the band who hit #1 with “Sister Golden Hair,” AMERICA is still infinitely more popular internationally than the country’s golden-haired tin-man of a POTUS will...
Chubby Checker: Still Twistin’
By David DeRocco It’s kind of ironic, but if you’re someone who stays in shape attending fitness classes that involve any form of dance or rhythmic movement, you might owe some thanks to a guy nicknamed Chubby. You see, in the annals of rock and roll history, the...
Emilio Castillo: Tower of Power’s Head Horn
By David DeRocco As an aspiring 17 year old musician living in Oakland TOWER OF POWER founder Emilio Castillo had a rather modest dream for his career. “When I started out in 1968 there was a band called The Spiders we used to go see that got a gig in Sacramento,”...
Liona Boyd: Last Tour for Canada’s First Lady of Guitar
By David DeRocco If you are one of the many millions of people who regret the fact they can no longer see legends like Bowie, Petty, Prince or Cohen perform their music, then take note of these contemplative words spoken by revered Canadian classical guitarist,...
Eddie Money: Paradise Found
By David DeRocco If you’re heading to Fallsview Casino this weekend chances are you’re going to leave with less money than you walked in with – unless you’ve got two tickets to the musical paradise called the Avalon Ballroom. In that case, you’ll be leaving with...
GEROLINE SAFETY CLEATS – KEEPING YOU SAFE ON THE JOB
It takes a while for most new companies to gain traction with potential customers. Geroline Industrial Safety Products didn’t have that problem. As a manufacturer of top quality traction cleats, Geroline knew exactly how impactful their safety product would be in...
SNL Alumni Kevin Nealon
By David DeRocco “When I see someone who is just going out to a comedy club for the first time I think, ‘wow, what rock have you been under,’” laughs versatile American funnyman and Saturday Night Live alumni Kevin Nealon. “There’s really kind of been a resurgence...
Martin Barre: Taking Roads Less Travelled
BY DAVID DeROCCO It’s a funny thing. You won’t find his name on the list of Top 100 Guitarists compiled by such supposedly learned rock mags as Rolling Stone, Spin or Kerrang!. Nor will you find it on similar lists assembled by musician trade mags like Guitar World...
Tower of Power: Horns’O Plenty 50 Years And Counting
As an aspiring 17 year old musician living in Oakland TOWER OF POWER founder Emilio Castillo had a rather modest dream for his career. “When I started out in 1968 there was a band called The Spiders we used to go see that got a gig in Sacramento,” recalled...
Royal Canadian Legions On Board with Camp Maple Leaf
Sometimes it takes legions of supporters to help make a project successful. Other times, it just takes support from the Legion. This summer, Camp Maple Leaf is happy to welcome branches of the Royal Canadian Legion into the fold as one of our new sponsor groups, which...
Jay Leno: Still A Stand Up Guy
By David DeRocco“I’m always happy to talk to the enemy, Canada,” laughs legendary late night host and comedian, Jay Leno, acknowledging the fact he’s being interviewed by a citizen from a rogue nation at war with his president. “It’s hilarious. It’s either...
Joe Winson – Overcoming Life’s Obstacles
By David DeRocco Accomplishing anything great in life often requires significant change that pushes you beyond your comfort zones. This can include times when a personal tragedy forever alters the life you were living. With the right attitude and motivation,...
Hank Thorn – SIU Expert
By David DeRocco For a guy who has earned a living being meticulously slow and methodical in the execution of his departmental duties, forensic investigator Hank Thorne could be on record as having experienced the shortest retirement in Hamilton Police Services...
PTSD – A SOLDIER’S STORY
By David DeRocco Determining the true human cost of war is not as simple as totalling the number of military and civilian lives lost in the conflict. Returning soldiers – and in truth, all active military personnel fortunate enough to make it home –...
Rosanne Cash: A 40 Year Hall of Fame Career Continues
By David DeRocco When it comes to describing music, there’s a funny thing about applying labels; they’re so very easy to defy. Take Rosanne Cash, for example, an artist many people would be quick to label a country artist. That would be a truly narrow definition of...
Jane Bunnett – Hot Latin Rhythms
By David DeRocco What’s the best way to take the chill off a cold winter night in St. Catharines? Try some hot Latin rhythms administered by Jane Bunnett and company during her special performance at Brock University February 9th. Fans are intimately familiar with the...
Lighting Up The Country With NEON SMOKE
BY DAVID DeROCCO It’s not just blowing smoke to say Australia born/Alberta raised Canadian country music star Gord Bamford is a great songwriter. His 24 Canadian Country Music Association awards, his multiple Juno nominations, his two Nashville Country Music...
BIG WRECK: CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF “IN LOVING MEMORY OF”
By David DeRocco Do you remember where you were when you first heard “That Song.” Not just any song, “That Song” – the one that after 20 years of airplay has now become “that song” for millions of broken-hearted lovers whose memories get triggered every time they...
BILLY TALENT: Reaching New Heights
By David DeRocco With no disrespect intended to any group of musicians who have, through the consequence of recent events related to their lead singer, been branded as “Canada’s band,” I present to you a set of empirical facts for your consideration. Since the...
Tim Hicks: Giving Canadian Country the Shakes
By David DeRocco When you hail from Niagara, you know that September is time for the harvest. So it makes sense that a country star like Tim Hicks would pick September to harvest the crop of songs he’d been tending too during five months of intensive writing and...
TPOH’s Moe Berg: Finding Happiness
By David DeRocco As an insightful young songwriter, Moe Berg managed – in one perfectly crafted song – to capture the inherent frustrations and stark realities involved in accepting the responsibilities of adulthood. Now, as he sits halfway through his life as a...
“Get Out and Go Camping” – CWF PSA with Johnny Reid
CLIENT: Canadian Wildlife...
“Wake Up With Someone You Love” Sunni and Hayes — 102.9 K-Lite Commercial
"WAKE UP WITH SOMEONE YOU LOVE" Written and directed by David DeRocco :30 seconds https://youtu.be/ddUkmal78Ic
The Trews: Homeward Bound
By David DeRocco Colin MacDonald probably wasn’t thinking about his music when he originally sat down with his bandmates in THE TREWS to write the single “Man of Two Minds” for their 2008 album No Time For Later. Yet 14 years and five albums into their amazing career,...
Crazy “8s” at Niagara Artists Centre
By David DeRocco There are musical performances accompanied by a backdrop of projected images; there are film screenings that conversely feature soundtracks of recorded music. Then there is A NEW PLACE TO DWELL, a multi-media mash up being orchestrated by Canadian...
Brighton Rock – Vintage Niagara Metal
BY David DeRocco Greg Fraser and Stevie Skreebs aren’t as young as they were when their band, Brighton Rock, was ruling the Canadian metal charts during their ‘80s heyday. But they’re still wild and free, a mutual state of mind that comes with being at peace with...
Ian Thornley – The Process of Revealing SECRETS
By David DeRocco Ian Thornely’s got a new solo album, a packed tour schedule, a sore throat and something he hasn’t had in a long time: performance jitters. Chatting with GoBe Weekly the day after the tour’s first show in Montreal, one where monitor issues required...
Tim Hicks: Homegrown Country Comes Back Home
By David DeRocco At the time of our conversation, Tim Hicks and his band are rolling toward Vancouver, three weeks into a rollicking road trip dubbed the “Get A Little Crazy Tour 2015.” Does the “crazy” in the tour name reflect the fact this Canadian country music...
ZZ TOP: View From the Mountaintop
By David DeRocco There’s a rarified air that exists when you’re sitting on top of the mountain, viewing the world from a position of fame and fortune. As the lyricist, musical arranger, vocalist and de facto leader of Texas blues-rock superstars ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons...
Great Canadian Campout – CWF & Johnny Reid
CLIENT: Canadian Wildlife Federation WRITTEN BY: David DeRocco PSA: GREAT CANADIAN...
CWF “HOLIDAY WISHES” Campaign 2015
CLIENT: Canadian Wildlife Federation CWF SCRIPT: “HOLIDAY WISHES” (:30) TO AIR: NOVEMBER 1 – JANUARY 5 V/O: Canadian Wildlife Federation presents, “Holiday wishes, kid style…” V1: I wish… there were more butterflies to chase V/2: I wish my school had classrooms...
Six Degrees of Paul Rodgers
By David DeRocco Paul Rodgers is one highly connected rock superstar. Not in the stereotypical “Sopranos” kind of connection, although he might very well be. More in the “six degrees of separation” kind of way, with Rodgers at the centre of an inspired universe you...
Darlene Love: A Star is Reborn
By David DeRocco Darlene Love began her career while still in high school, recording for legendary producer Phil Spector in a little-known girl group called The Blossoms. It’s ironic then in 2015, over half a century into her hard-earned Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
Boz Scaggs: For the Love of the Music
By David DeRocco If you had to speculate on the type of blood Boz Scaggs has running through his veins, Type O might be a good guess. It would only make sense that the fluids flowing through a musician so versatile would be classified as “universal.” Scaggs has...
Rising Stars Niagara: Khea Emmanuel
By David DeRocco Passionate fans of jazz music will tell you listening to jazz music is good for the soul. As it turns out, it’s also good for your brain. A study conducted at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine determined that the brains of jazz...
Rising Stars Niagara: Mel Monaco
By David DeRocco No one paid a cover charge to get in. But there, in a dimly lit nightclub, in front of a weathered velvet stage curtain and an even more-weathered crowd of Sunday afternoon lunch special types, stood an artist clearly paying her dues. Standing tall...
Peller Estates Goes Mobile
If you need any more proof of the concept of evolution, look no further than at these two seemingly disparate examples: the mobile food truck, and the Niagara winery. As two species often pegged for extinction in the 20th century, both the food truck and the Niagara...
The Sanctuary: Putting Ridgeway On The Map
There was a time when wanting to have fun in Ridgeway, Ontario, meant getting in your car and leaving town. These days, however, there’s a “sanctuary” drawing people back to Ridgeway that could make this tiny hamlet one of the most happening live event hubs in...
Ginger St. James – Serving Up “Diesel & Peas”
By David DeRocco When a country girl named Ginger St. James aims to serve you up a heapin’ helpin’ of “Diesel and Peas,” – well mister, you just better accept her invite and her hospitality. ‘Cause if you don’t – well sir, you’re a’gonna miss yourself some mighty fine...
Ron Sexsmith – Riding The “Carousel” of Success
By David DeRocco In a musical universe ruled by over-digitalized, over-processed, Auto-Tune filtered pop stars who take years to manufacture their quickly disposable products, it’s good to know an internationally respected singer/songwriter can step into a studio with...
Hollerado – On the Verge of Greatness
By David DeRocco The members of Hollerado are on the verge – of releasing a new album, of embarking on a summer tour, of finally achieving the level of success that’s so-far evaded them, and maybe, on the verge of a massive breakdown from exhaustion. Who really knows...
Steppenwolf’s Magic Carpet Ride Continues
By David DeRocco Wild things are meant to stay wild, free to roam and wander until Father Time and Mother Earth conspire to turn them to dust. For a rock band that has made “Born to be Wild” their anthem for more than four decades, Steppenwolf is far from ready to be...
Protest The Hero: Hard Metal Forged In Canada
By David DeRocco Progressive music, by definition, should always be moving forward, mutating, morphing and transforming into new and exciting hybrids. Take PROTEST THE HERO for example, five friends from Whitby who have evolved into Canada’s pre-eminent progressive...
Rik Emmett’s Latest Triumph
By David DeRocco Rik Emmett’s current bio says he’s “digging in deep at his revamped Rec Room Studio,” experimenting with digital technology and recording music he’s planning on releasing in “a steady stream of new songs” without worrying about the content forming a...
89.1 Reasons To Listen To Country Music
By David DeRocco: It didn’t take a reduction in aerosol cans or lower carbon emissions to help repair the giant hole in the airwaves over Niagara. All it took was a really solid application to the CRTC, two years of legal and administrative finagling, a few months of...
BRENT BUTT: CANADA’S REIGNING COMEDY KING
By David DeRocco There’s probably dozens of surreal moments that occur over a lifetime when you’re a kid from small-town Saskatchewan who winds up becoming an international comedy, television and movie star. For Tisdale-born Brent Butt, one of the strangest such...
HEADSTONES “CHAMBER MUSIC” TAKES AIM AT BAND’S CLASSICS
By DAVID DeROCCO In the art community, there is never a valid reason to recreate a masterpiece; originals have no equal, and interpretations are at best mere forgeries that can never measure up to the artist’s initial creative vision. Bottom line – no one wants to see...
ALAN DOYLE’S GREAT BIG SOLO SUCCESS
By David DeRocco “The long road’s behind us” declares Alan Doyle on SO LET’S GO, the eponymous lead-off track on the new solo album from the longtime voice of Great Big Sea. And yet, with everything going on in Alan’s life – a new album, a new memoir and a new solo...
Canadian Wildlife Federation — PRINT PORTFOLIO
PRINT AD: CANADIAN WILDLIFE magazine
HARMONY AND HAPPINESS WITH SERENA RYDER
By David DeRocco Serena Ryder is hanging out in a studio in NYC, enjoying a rare four-day window with not much to do but revel in some well-earned recreational time – she’s chilling, touring Times Square, and talking music with friends. She’s writing again, recording...
AGREE TO AN AGREEMENT DURING SEPARATION
It’s a strange phenomenon exclusive to human relationships that two people who had trouble agreeing on things while married suddenly think they will agree on things as they head for divorce. After all, there’s a reason why civil wars are often the bloodiest battles:...
THE WRITE KNIGHT BLOG — BIRTHDAY MUSINGS 2014
I turn 53 today, and what have I learned having reached this lofty age? For starters, I recognize that 53 is just a number. People over 30 say that. People over 40 understand it. We people over 50 know that age isn’t defined by a number, it’s reflected in our...
PARIS FAIR – RADIO SCRIPT
SCRIPT: PARIS STAMPEDE DAYS WRITER: DAVID DeROCCO FX: (HEART POUNDING IN B.G., LOUD IN THPE MIX; RISING DRONE) Some come to defy gravity; others come to defy death. But you – you only need to come to experience heart-stopping, mind blowing excitement….. !!!! (FX:...
Russel Stampede Days 2014
PRESS RELEASE 2014 STAMPEDE DAYS BRINGS BULLS & BIKES TO RUSSELL IN SUPPORT OF SPECIAL OLYMPICS ONTARIO (Tuesday, May 20 – Russell) The most dangerous sport in the world – bull riding -- makes its return to Russell Fairgrounds along with Jordan Szoke, Canada’s...
Matthew Barber’s Latest Romance
By: David DeRocco Any writer will tell you how cathartic the process of expressing thoughts on paper can be. When a writer is also a musician, there’s always the potential to combine such emotional purging with the recording of some very powerful and...
Hamilton’s Back in the Beer Brewing Business
By David DeRocco Driving along Burlington Street these past three years it was hard not to notice the fifty-thousand square foot reminder of the loss of Hamilton’s brewing industry sitting vacantly along the waterfront. That same empty building will soon be serving as...
Enviro-Niagara Committed to the Environment
“Dedicated to the community, committed to the environment” – that’s the mission statement driving the heating and air conditioning professionals at Enviro-Niagara Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning (www. environiagara.ca). Enviro-Niagara is first and foremost a...
TURF KING FEEDS LAWNS A HEALTHY DIET
The term “you are what you eat” can be applied to more than simply humans. What you feed your lawn on a daily and annual basis determines its overall health. No one knows more about feeding your lawn a proper diet than the lawn care and landscaping experts at Turf...
Wendel Clark’s Biggest Hit — The Classic Grill and Sports Lounge
Although the former Toronto Maple Leaf captain was never one to boast, Wendel Clark the restaurant is claiming bragging rights on the best burger in downtown Burlington – the signature one-pound bacon burger aptly named, The Enforcer.
George Thorogood – The Icon Returns
By David DeRocco Call it the circle of life, rock n roll version. August 16, 1977, on the day Elvis Presley lay dying in his bathroom, the American music label Rounder Records -- known at the time for distributing obscure American roots acts...
Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
By David DeRocco -- Determining the true human cost of war is not as simple as totaling the number of military and civilian lives lost in the conflict. Returning soldiers – and in truth, all active military personnel fortunate enough to make it home – must ultimately...
RADIO’S EPIC OUTDOOR FAIL (The WRITE KNIGHT Blog)
Good marketing campaigns begin with a product ready to be marketed. As the Harper government has learned, spending $2.5 million advertising a non-existent Government Jobs Grant program is not a particularly judicious use of limited marketing funds.Even when they have...
BLACK SABBATH: KINGS OF METAL COME TO STEEL TOWN
BLACK SABBATH COMES TO HAMILTON by David DeRocco There are many strange facts to be found when you’re scavenging through the dark history of BLACK SABBATH, the universally acknowledged uber-lords of British heavy metal. Things like their uncharacteristically...
SELF ESTEEM AND SELF DISCIPLINE IMPROVES WITH MUSIC LESSONS
Teaching kids self-discipline and self-esteem is a reason parents often site for enrolling kids in martial arts classes. The Cambridge Conservatory of Music (http://www.ccomusic.net) can boast the same end results with an added bonus: rather than simply knowing how to punch or kick, your child will learn to play an instrument!
INSTRUMENT LENDING A GOOD WAY TO REDUCE COST OF MUSIC LESSONS
You want to commit to taking music lessons. What you don’t want, however, is the commitment to buying an instrument before you’re sure you will even enjoy learning to play it. There is a very simple solution to this age old problem: enroll for music lessons at the...
THE SUPREME ART OF THE MUSIC TEACHER
Albert Einstein said “it is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” He could have been writing the musical mission statement for the Cambridge Conservatory of Music (http://www.ccomusic.net), the number one choice for music...
RECITALS PUT MUSIC LESSONS IN ACTION AT CCOMUSIC
Music lessons can foster dreams of a musical career. One of the big hurdles facing young musicians striving to fulfill their dreams is overcoming the natural anxiety that occurs when performing live for an audience the very first time. Delivering that performance in a...
Advertising copywriting – print samples
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Advertising copywriting – print samples
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Advertising Copy – National Post
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America on Edge: Different Views of the American Dream
America On Edge: Different Views of the American Dream by David DeRocco is a reproducible low level reading and discussion ESL textbook. It is intended for older high school ESL students and adult ESL students. The ESL book contains units complemented by a variety of...
You Are What You Eat
You Are What You Eat: Stories about Food in Modern Times by David DeRocco is a reproducible book that includes engaging stories relating to modern food issues and food production. The stories are written at an intermediate level. The book covers a broad range of...
The Vocabulary Diet
The Vocabulary Diet series, written by DAVID DeROCCO, includes three books. Each ESL textbook includes 30 reproducible units, with 5 new vocabulary words studied in each. Each unit in these ESL materials begins by studying the dictionary definitions of five words....
The International Holiday & Festival Primer
The International Holiday & Festival Primer, written by DAVID DeROCCO, is the first in a two book series of reproducible low level reading and discussion ESL textbooks. These ESL materials are designed to help teach E.S.L. students about holy days and cultural...
Canada: From Sea to Sea to Sea
Canada From Sea to Sea to Sea, written by DAVID DeROCCO, is a reproducible ESL/EFL/LITERACY reading-and-discussion text. Each unit examines a topic designed to educate people interested in learning about Canada or, more important, in becoming a citizen of Canada. It...
Stories for the New Millennium
Stories for the New Millennium by David DeRocco is a fifty unit reproducible book for teaching E.S.L. reading. This textbook will make for lively discussion in your E.S.L. class. The articles in Stories for the New Millennium are short and written at a beginner level....
Canadian Superlatives
Canadian Superlatives is a fifty unit reproducible reading and discussion text for teaching ESL. The articles in Canadian Superlatives are short and written at a beginner level. These fine ESL materials are complemented by a variety of exercises, with attention paid...
Canada: Eh to Zed
CANADA FROM EH TO ZED by DAVID DeROCCO is the first in a four book series of reproducible low level ESL/EFL/Literacy reading and discussion texts for teaching ESL. Each unit in these ESL textbooks examines an element of the Canadian experience that will genuinely...
LEARNING MUSIC – A FAMILY AFFAIR
An oft-quoted African proverb suggests “it takes a village to raise a child.” The inference is that it takes more than one person and many different life experiences to help a child reach his or her full potential as an adult. You could apply that same principle when...
YAMAHA MUSIC SCHOOL – CREATING MUSICAL AMBASSADORS
Enroll in Toronto’s Yamaha Music School (http://www.yamahamusicschool.ca) and you get more than a program of music lessons. You get the experience of history and the wisdom of a musical philosophy designed by school founders to spread the joy of music around the...
PARENT-TEACHER COMMUNICATION: KEY TO GOOD LEARNING
Good parents want what’s best for their children; so do all good educators responsible for teaching them. When it comes to ensuring your child’s educational success there is no better partnership than the one you form with his or her teacher. No one understands that...
Title Tags – A Beginner’s SEO Lesson
Today we're going back to basics! And nothing is more basically important to a site than properly written title tags. You know the ones that used to appear in the little blue bars in your browsers. Most modern browsers try to hide these, though that doesn't stop them...
Write Knight Blog Post — DON CHERRY PICKING
I have always respected butchers. Maintaining your humanity on the job while slaughtering and processing animals must require an enormous balance of emotional strength and emotional detachment. Where I lose respect for butchers is when they earn their living not at...
Getting the Shaft While Mining Sochi Hockey Gold
The biggest hockey shaft found at the Sochi Games isn't the one carried by Slovakia captain Zdeno Chara. It's the shaft perpetrated on nationalist hockey fans on both sides of the Atlantic who believe a gold medal confirms international hockey supremacy. With the...
Bubba’s Perfectly Presented Poutine
Is it time we voted poutine in as the official national food of Canada? As a purveyor of the most popular poutine in the Kingston area, Bubba’s Poutine and Pizzeria (http://www.bubbaspizzeria.com) would support that campaign. Times have certainly changed for...
Ten Things to Know About Pizza
When you’re a pizza aficionado in the Kingston area then you should already know all about Bubba’s Poutine and Pizzeria (http://www.bubbaspizzeria.com). Bubba’s reputation for its in house homemade pizza sauce and dough recipe has made it a favourite of pizza lovers...
Bubba’s – A Slice of History
When you place an order with Bubba’s Poutine and Pizzeria you’re not just getting a meal: you’re getting a slice of Doulas family history. That’s the name behind one of Kingston’s favourite pizza restaurants, and their story is a typical immigrant tale of...
ICE STORM 2013 – Oakville Hydro’s Power Play Outscore’s Mother Nature
Our reputation as a nation is often defined by the teamwork and tenacity we exhibit when we hit the ice. Not surprisingly, it is that same tenacious teamwork that often binds communities together when the ice hits us back. Such was the case on Sunday, December 22,...
Windtek Windows Shine
In our efforts to ensure we all do our part to reduce, reuse and recycle, we sometimes forget a simple truth: it’s also okay to buy things that are manufactured using only 100 percent new materials. That is one of the selling features of the products manufactured and...
Custom Windows – The Right Fit
The term “one size fits all” is a cookie cutter approach to design. That may be a fine approach if the product you’re making is ladies hosiery, but it is a near impossibility to manufacturer quality windows using a “one size fits all” mentality. No one knows that more...
The Santaland Diaries – On Stage
Pity poor Sarah Palin. According to her new book, “Good Tidings and Great Joy,” the failed Republican stooge is distraught over the fact Americans are losing another war, this time on their own soil – the war on Christmas. To loosely summarize the “book of Sarah,”...
Pizza Sauce Pros – Bubba’s
Modern pizza lovers are an adventurous bunch, going to great lengths to add variety to their lists of preferred toppings. For example, amongst India’s Top 10 favourite pizza toppings you’ll find a trilogy of unconventional tastes that includes ginger, minced mutton...
Personal Chef Services – Liaison
Every creative vocation has its successful version of a “freelancer.” Newspaper reporters go off and write books. Marketing people open up consulting firms. Policemen become security firm “guns for hire.” Such opportunities also exist in the world of culinary arts in...
To Cook or Not To Cook – Liaison
Every successful career is built on a foundation of knowledge and experiences gained from a variety of sources. Before you can aspire to the top of your profession, you must first develop the core competencies you require to be successful. That is really the guiding...
DIY Catering – Liaison College
There’s a buffet of opportunity waiting for you when you graduate from Kitchener’s Liaison College (http://www.liaisonkitchener.ca). A full 94% of graduates find work in the culinary field. Making a choice of where to apply your skills is often the hardest decision....
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