by Mike Strobel | Mar 1, 2022 | Variety Village
Paralympics medallist Marissa Papaconstantinou signs my new book, Small Miracles: The Inspiring Kids of Variety Village this week. Marissa is in the book. She was born without a right foot and at age 12, on the Village track, she used a running blade for the first...
by Mike Strobel | Feb 17, 2022 | Variety Village
BLADE RUNNER: This young woman is going places — quickly. My Sun column on a former Variety Village kid who is conquering the...
by Mike Strobel | Dec 6, 2021 | Tulip's Adventures
Our Norwegian forest cat is stuck in the Big Smoke helping me with my Christmas Fund for Variety Village and trying not to get bored before we return to the wilds of Manitoulin Island. Here, she plays a favourite game, Spot Tulip. Can you find her? Clue: Don’t...
by Mike Strobel | Nov 30, 2021 | Mikes Musings
KAGAWONG, ONT. I think they are all zombies up here. Or maybe the Ministry of Natural Resources is experimenting with diazepam. I’ve been criss-crossing Manitoulin Island in search of the elusive eastern cougar all month and I’ve heard not one profanity, car horn,...
by Mike Strobel | Nov 30, 2021 | Mikes Musings
KAGAWONG, Ont. — The virus is bringing out the best and the worst in us. The effect is seen even here on Lake Huron’s quietly majestic Manitoulin Island, where my retirement log cabin nestles, and which is now a backwater front in the war on COVID-19. Kagawong,...
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