Niagara Escarpment Views - Spring 2016

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TM/MC Since Jan. 2008 since january 2008 a division of a division of 1826789 Ontario Inc. 1826789 Ontario Inc. You can be ready to retire or not. Ready is better. Lymphedema sleeves Archie Braga, CFP® Allison Calder Financial Advisor Financial Advisor (519) 853-4694 (905) 573-8778 315 Queen St. E., Unit #2 325 Winterberry Dr., Unit 205 Acton, ON L7J 1R1 Stoney Creek, ON L8J 2N5 archie.braga@edwardjones.com allison.calder@edwardjones.com Colin Brookes Financial Advisor (905) 873-7630 211 Guelph St., Unit 4 Georgetown, ON L7G 5B5 colin.brookes@edwardjones.com Young’s Pharmacy & Homecare Visit us at foodstuffs.ca for delicious maple syrup recipes ... and shop our store for the ingredients! Specialty & Health Foods 89 Main Street South Downtown Georgetown 905.877.6569 foodstuffs.ca Todd Neff, CFP® Financial Advisor (905) 331-1099 1500 Upper Middle Rd., Unit 6 Burlington, ON L7P 3P5 todd.neff@edwardjones.com George Paolucci Financial Advisor (519) 833-9069 132 Main Street, Unit 4 Erin, ON N0B 1T0 george.paolucci@edwardjones.com Call Shannon or Gail at 905-877-2711 ext. 133 Toll Free 1-855-408-5435 www.youngspharmacy.com www.edwardjones.com Member — Canadian Investor Protection Fund 47 Main Street South, Georgetown, ON Stone Edge Estate Bed & Breakfast, Georgetown Ontario Dependable Cleaning A touch of luxury on the Niagara Escarpment Large bright rooms with ensuite bath, TV & bar fridge. Indoor pool, jacuzzi, wifi, handicap friendly. Contact us today for a free in-home estimate: 13951 Ninth Line, Georgetown, ON 905.877.3443 905 702 8418 www.StoneEdgeEstate.ca gina-cochrane@mollymaid.ca PUBLISHERS PUBLISHERS Mike Davis Mike and Davis Gloria Hildebrandt Gloria Hildebrandt EDITOR Gloria Hildebrandt EDITOR editor@NEViews.ca Gloria Hildebrandt 905 873 2834 editor@NEViews.ca 905 873 2834 ART DIRECTOR Valentino ART Sanna DIRECTOR Ignition Design Branimir + Zlamalik, Communications gb.com unlimited www.ignitiondesign.ca ADVERTISING/ACCOUNTS MANAGER ADVERTISING/ACCOUNTS Mike Davis MANAGER Mike Davisads@NEViews.ca ads@NEViews.ca 905 877 9665 905 877 9665 ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Ads for Acton, Mike Davis Georgetown, Erin: Chris Miller ads@NEViews.ca candsmiller@cogeco.ca 905 877 9665 905 877 6826 Jeff Yamaguchi Ads for Hamilton, jyamaguchi@promediacommunications.com Stoney Creek: Mark Ewer905 796 7931 x 23 markewer@cogeco.ca 905 730 2573 GRAPHIC AND WEBSITE DESIGN Joan Donogh, In-Formation Design WEBSITE DESIGN Joan Donogh INTERN In-Formation Nicole Design Thornburrow Niagara Escarpment Niagara Escarpment Views is published four times a year. is published Subscriptions four times in Canada: a year. Subscriptions Annual: in $22; Canada: Two years: $39.50 Annual: $22; HST included. Two years: HST Number $39.50 80712 0464 RT0001. HST included. Subscriptions HST # to 80712 the U.S.: 0464 RT0001. Subscriptions Annual: to $35; the Two U.S.: years: $65 Canadian funds. PayPal available at www.NEViews.ca Annual: $35; Two years: $65 Canadian funds. PayPal available at www.NEViews.ca Delivered by Canada Post Publications Mail #41592022 Delivered by Canada Post Publications The Mail publishers #41592022 of Niagara Escarpment Views are not responsible for any loss or damage caused by the The publishers contents of of Niagara the magazine, Escarpment whether in articles or Views are not advertisements. responsible Views for expressed any loss might or not be those of damage caused its publishers by the or editor. contents of the magazine, Please whether contact in us articles concerning or advertising, subscriptions, advertisements. story ideas Views and photography. expressed Your might comments are not be those welcome! of its publishers or editor. Please contact Letters us to concerning the editor may advertising, be edited for subscriptions, space story and published ideas and in the photography. magazine, on Your comments the website are welcome! or in print materials. Letters to the editor may be edited for space and Niagara published Escarpment in the Views, magazine, 50 Ann St. on the website Halton Hills, or in (Georgetown) print materials. ON L7G 2V2 editor@NEViews.ca Niagara Escarpment www.NEViews.ca Views 50 Ann St. All Halton rights reserved. Hills, Reproduction in whole or in part (Georgetown) is prohibited ON L7G without 2V2 the permission of the copyright editor@NEViews.ca holders under licence from Access Copyright. Contact www.NEViews.ca the publishers for more information. All rights reserved. ISSN 1916-3053 Reproduction in whole or in part is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holders or under licence from Access Copyright. Contact the publishers for more information. ISSN 2293-2976 ♼ Printed Eon paper Printed with on paper recycled with recycled content. content. 4 Niagara Escarpment Views • spring 2016
View From the Editor’s Desk n Engaging Our Audience Someone once asked my co-publisher Mike why we publish negative or critical letters to the editor. The first response is to think why wouldn’t we? It’s the truth, what people think. I understand the argument that it’s good to have positive, flattering comments, but including negative ones proves that we don’t make these things up. We’re delighted to get a good number of letters and notes. They show that people care about the magazine. In this issue, we have a letter about a missing apostrophe in a place name! I love that care, concern and attention to detail. It’s important to get things right, because our issues are around for the long haul. We recently had an online order for two copies of Winter 2010! We had to dig into our archives to get those copies, but we’re in awe that someone, make that two people, are still interested in that issue. Audience engagement is important to the success of a publication, helping to create or strengthen a sense of community among readers. It’s more proof of how engaged our readers are with the magazine. We have pages on our NEViews.ca website that show comments we’ve received. One, called People Respond, is from readers. The other, Why Advertise, shares notes from or about our advertisers. You can even see this engagement on our subscription form. When thinking about what would attract more people to consider subscribing, we finally realized that nothing would be as powerful as the words of our viewers and readers themselves. So the comments on the subscription form are ones we have actually received over the years. They tell better than we could, why people want to subscribe. Our recent reader survey is another source of validating notes. Some people referred to the subscription form, writing that they agree with everything that is written there. Mike has much more about the reader survey in his column this issue. You can see the subscription form on page 41. Audience engagement is important to the success of a publication, helping to create or strengthen a sense of community among readers. Ethics, excellence, engagement — three defining words for the magazine that I’ve written about before, which remain our guiding principles. Putting this magazine together four times each year, to the high quality standard that we set for ourselves, is a lot of work. But doing it and garnering the response we get, is a privilege and sometimes a sheer joy. The Joy of Spring Creating our Spring issue, with its annual special focus on Escarpment-area gardens, is a great joy for me. My own rural garden has become completely overgrown and out of control, so I love seeing the gorgeous gardens created by better gardeners. In this issue we poke around four spectacular country gardens. Taking a virtual tour of these special places while relaxing in an armchair is delightful — no sweat, no bugs, no hard work, no getting dirty. And it inspires me to try once again to bring order to my 23-year-old garden. I think it’s time for a big renewal of the garden beds. In these pages we also take you behind the scenes of Mountsberg Conservation Area’s Raptor Centre, part of Conservation Halton, in Campbellville. We suggest what you might witness if you take part in a private raptor encounter. Getting close to magnificent birds is educational and breath-taking. If you like what you see here, or don’t, or know of a great garden we should visit, or have anything to share with our community of readers and viewers, do send us a note by Canada Post, email or Facebook. Engaging with you keeps this magazine going. Gloria Hildebrandt P.S. Wild animals need wild spaces. LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK! Write us at editor@NEViews.ca or Niagara Escarpment Views, 50 Ann St., Georgetown ON L7G 2V2 More Online! Keep in touch with Escarpment news between issues at our website. We have unique content not seen in the magazine, and you can leave comments in response. See www.NEViews.ca Niagara Escarpment Views is on Facebook as: www.facebook.com/N.E.Views spring 2016 • Niagara Escarpment Views 5
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