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Mar 8, 2021 8:52 AM
The Twilight Quilters Guild and Norfolk Remembers are taking time to honour women’s contributions to the war effort.
Over the past few years, Norfolk Remembers has been highlighting stories from the great wars and their connections to our community.
One way of doing this is by having the quilters make quilts that highlight local milestones and achievements in the past.
Now, the Quilters have been tasked with Norfolk Remembers’ newest endeavour – highlighting amazing women in wartimes.
That was Diane Luke from the Twilight Quilters Guild.
She said some of the stories they have so far about local women have provided some incredible material.
Facebook Censorship Has Become ‘Outrageous,’ Whistleblower Says
Facebook whistleblower Ryan Hartwig, who lifted the lid on the social media giant’s alleged pattern of bias and censorship against conservatives, told The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” program on Feb. 28 that censorship at the company has become “outrageous.”
Hartwig, a former content moderator at a third-party company that provided services to Facebook, made news in June 2020 when he alleged that moderators were told to enforce the social media platform’s policies selectively to allow, under certain circumstances, content that demonized the police or white males.
“I saw that Facebook gave exceptions to, essentially, silence conservatives,” he said in an interview during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida.
A piece of Norfolk’s history has returned back home.
In December, Norfolk County Sports Hall of Recognition Chair Heather King received an unexpected package from Tennessee.
In it was a beautiful silver trophy from the family of Nelson Ross Gilbert.
An article that came with the item explains that prize was “presented by the inhabitants of Simcoe to the Champion Baseball Club. Norfolk. Dominion Day 1871”.
Two references to the trophy were found in the then-Norfolk Reformer, the first on June 15, 1871, previewing a celebration of Dominion Day on July 1st of that year.
That year, a group representing Lynedoch comprised of Nelson Robert Gilbert, W.A. McLim, John Murray, L. Olmstead, A. Armstrong, John Beal, John Shepherd, Wm Dawson, and F. Crysler emerged victorious in a field that included Simcoe, Vittoria, and Port Dover.
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Norfolk council has managed a significant cut to the countyâs library budget without laying off staff.
At the fourth and final day of councilâs budget committee deliberations on Jan. 19, council reduced the library systemâs budget this year by 7.5 per cent. This is a half percentage point lower than a staff recommendation for an eight per cent cut.
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The draft budget offered three cost-cutting scenarios. The largest â 10 per cent â would have required layoffs. The lowest â five per cent â was closer to the status quo but did not provide council with the savings it was seeking.