The My Story Community Exhibition brought our community to life through creativity, connection, and shared experience. With over 30 participants, from ages 6 to 70, stories unfolded through art, writing, and personal expression, each one reflecting a unique connection to the land, water, and place we call home. More than just an exhibition, My Story…
We recently took journeys back through the ages, from the time of primordial Earth, though the ascent of civilization, and to hypothetical futures our species may take. The star of that journey, is water. When I think of it – there are four quiet miracles of water, in how it sustains life. Life does not merely exist in water,…
Your Page. Your Story. Your Voice. Celebrate the beauty of our local waterways and the natural world through creativity.Residents from Sombra to Dresden including Walpole Island and Mitchell’s Bay are invited to be a page in our community’s story by contributing creative works in any medium that inspires you art, writing, music, photography, dance, sculpture,…
Students Spark Inspiration at the My Story Student Exhibition The My Story Student Exhibition lit up Wallaceburg District Secondary School on Friday November 14 as students unveiled powerful artwork and deeply personal stories about their connection to local waterways. The school library was transformed into a bright and welcoming gallery where creativity and community came…
The Modern Era Rianne de Klerk tugged mightily as the large membrane filter released from its housing. The filter, as tall as she, had that faint salt tang of the sea, and the once white exterior of the filter was now marbled with a patina of minerals and biofilm. She unpackaged the new filter and…
The Industrial Revolution Young Hamish McRae jauntily whistled an old ditty from his homeland of Scotland as he strode off the dirt street and onto the property of the Premier Electric Light Company. He considered himself lucky. He and his wife had settled down in this growing and bustling young town of Wallaceburg, Ontario a…
The Medieval Era / The Late Age Of Enlightenment Father Edmund closed the doors of the abbey and made the walk through the old, twisted oaks to the millhouse he helped build so long ago, when he was first ordained. It was so long ago, he mused, but even as an old man now, he still…
Water As Part of Faith and the Arts Julliete de Sombre walked through the giant wooden and iron doors of the Abbey of Saint-Étienne. Holding her newborn son, named after his father Richard, she looked around in awe at the majesty of this beautiful Cathedral, the first this large in Caen. She nervously took her…
Rivers Of Civilization The Rise of Empires The ceremony brought thousands to the new fountain built just blocks from the home of Gaius Fabius Scaeva. The owner of the dye works, where he worked, was there too. Lucius Cornelius was not only his boss, but was also his former commander in the Second Samnite War….
NatureCK Citizen Science Youth Day 2025 Read the full survey report here: On August 10, 2025, NatureCK hosted Youth Day, where 16 families explored local nature and shared their thoughts on protecting rivers and wetlands. Each family received a Nature Exploration Kit to encourage observing wildlife and recording environmental changes as part of citizen science….