Month: May 2023

Chris Cameron and John Unruh

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 Please join us to hear Christopher Cameron and John Unruh tell us about their adventures in podcasting. Christopher is presently engaged in making podcasts of his latest book. Thorneside Stories; A Mix of Sun and Cloud  and John has completed his series of podcasts of his novel The Ziggurat.  They tell us about how they found the platforms they publish on, about the programmes they use to record their readings, the challenges they faced in making the recording and why they love doing it.

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Karin Wells

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KARIN WELLS, LLB, LLM is an author, journalist, and lawyer. She is also a sometime actress and worked – briefly – in a pea canning factory. Her latest book, “More than a Footnote: Canadian Women You Should Know, a curious and often irreverent look at ten Canadian women who have been forgotten or ignored, has been well received across the country. Her 2020 book “The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle forthe Right to Choose” (Second Story Press) was the winner of the OHS (Ontario Historical Society) Alison Prentice Award and short listed for the 2021Shaughnessy Cohen prize, Canada’s premier award for political writing. She regularly contributes to Watershed Magazine focusing on life in Northumberland, Quinte and Prince Edward County. Karin has been recognized as one of this country’s leading radio journalists. Over her career she worked in more than fifty countries making radio documentaries for CBC radio’s The Sunday Edition, hosted by Michael Enright. Her radio documentary work made her a three time winner of the Canadian Association of Journalists Award for investigative journalism and she regularly won international awards and was twice recognized by the United Nations. In 2021 she produced her first video documentary “The Radio Warrior: – a Tribute to Margaret Lyons”. For five years she was the Program Director of Northumberland Learning connection and is regularly asked to speak and moderate events throughout the country. In 2011 she was inducted into the University of Ottawa’s Common Law Honor Society and earned a Masters of law degree in 2018.Karin Wells lives in Port Hope with her little dogs Mimi and Darwin. She is currently working on a new book for Second Story Press and a podcast for CBC Radio based on More than a Footnote.

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Alan Seymour

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Meet Al Seymour who grew up just north of Cobourg attending Cook’s School and CDCI West, before venturing to the University of Guelph to earn a degree in Microbiology. For the next 40 years, Al worked in the GTA as a microbiologist, senior food manufacturing manager, logistics consultant and started his own contracting firm constructing sustainable buildings and quality renovations. Committed to making his community a better place, Al co-founded three charitable organizations. These were the Mississauga Food Bank, the Erin Mills Youth Centre, and the 3rd Erin Mills Scout Group. Five years ago, Al and his wife Kathy Toivanen retired to Cobourg. Al is a busy retiree – active with the Cobourg Museum, renovating his home, church, skiing, hiking, walking, and gardening.  And writing; Al has written 3 books: an historical novel, a children’s short story, and a political thriller. Only the short story has been published so far. He parked his incomplete WWI story but is finishing the first draft of an 1850’s saga. 

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Theresa Bailey

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This one’s for Moms on Mothers’ Day. For over 20 years Theresa has been training businesses and organizations and helping to plan for and adapt to change, through interactive, compelling and creative workshops and facilitated events.

As the founder of Canadian Hockey Moms, she has become a sought after and respected voice on the state of minor hockey in Canada.

With three hockey playing children across 10 years, over 32 teams (from house league to girls hockey to AAA), Theresa Bailey has managed 17 and been the president of a small association for the past three. She has built a community of over 40,000 Hockey Moms across the world to share knowledge, promote rational thought, current research, and showcase the newest hockey related brands. And now she has published a book giving a voice to hockey mums, the heart of the game. Please join us!

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James Pickersgill

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We interview James Pickersgill this week. If asked, “When did you most recently compose a poem?” James will likely be able to say, “A few hours ago” or “Earlier today, I was continuing to work on a current one.”

Any poem James writes will very often be a love poem for his wife, who consistently refuses to be identified as “his muse” and rightly so.

James has been a happy-warrior type of poetry activist in our lively Cobourg Arts scene for many years, including service as a member of the various selection Committees appointed by Town Council to discern who should be our 2nd, 3rd and 4th Poets Laureate. James is the coordinator of the Third Thursday Readings and the Cobourg Poetry Workshop.

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