Event Type : Speaker Series

Water, the most common of liquids, is quite mysterious. That’s what makes it so special.

Water has been a big part of Barry Hart’s life. He and his wife, Heather Alloway founded Water Ambassadors Canada in Haliburton over 22 years ago. Water Ambassadors Canada helps provide clean drinking water in developing countries using simple technologies.

He will tell us stories about the extraordinary properties of water and what it means to life on earth. Barry will highlight his experiences with Water Ambassadors Canada.

Barry taught high school science, chemistry and biology for almost 30 years.

This presentation is about everything you wanted to know (or didn’t want to know) about water but were afraid to ask.

Tammy Rea, along with Midori Nagai spent 20 years with Sticks and Stones recording and sharing stories about Haliburton County.

A look back at the stories around some of the videos, from the mysterious,Highland Wheeler (the ghost on a bike), to the comical (Haliburton Highlands Museum) to the poignant (Minden Pride). And of course, just like Woodstock, can you say you were there – in minus 25 degree weather – for the outdoor screening of “There’s Something in the Water?”

Years before that Kris Kadwell and Al Sumpter with frequent host Barry (Bazza) Hayward, created and produced CHTV, pioneering television for the Haliburton Highlands. The shows ran one evening each week in Minden and Haliburton from 1994 to 1999.

Enjoy an evening of looking back at the county’s unique and colourful people and events, and some of the stories behind the stories.

From his early days in the pages of Maclean’s, to stints at the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, National Post and most famously from his perch on page two of the Globe and Mail, MacGregor was one of the country’s must-read journalists. While news media were leaning increasingly right or left, he always leaned north, his curiosity trained by the deep woods and cold lakes of Algonquin Park to share stories from Canada’s farthest reaches, even as he worked in the newsrooms of its southern capitols. From Parliament to the backyard rink, subarctic shores to prairie expanses, MacGregor shaped the way Canadians saw and thought about themselves—never entirely untethered from the land and its history