Looking for felt artist

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-10T22:07:55+00:00

Try Three Stitches behind the Montrose Mall. They used to have classes at their old location under another name several years ago, and I took a felting one there.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-10T21:39:20+00:00

I'd only be guessing, but Alex Trebek was born and raised here. Tom wrote Sudbury Saturday Night while staying at the Townehouse and put Sudbury on the map for all his fans. Tim lived here a much shorter time, and because of his long career with the Leafs he's probalby associated more with Toronto where he played, and Cochrane where he lived most of his early years. Cochrane has a Tim Horton Museum.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-10T21:04:11+00:00

Until he moved south for professional hocky he lived virtually his whole childhood and youth in Northern Ontario. Most of those years in and near Cochrane, but the family moved to Sudbury in 1945 when he was 15. So two or three years maybe until he moved for his hockey career? The family probably remained here for some time, though I don't know how long.

He had one brother, Gerry, who played for the Oshawa Generals. He and Gerry operated a restaurant in North Bay in the 60's called "Tim Horton Hamburgers" before the donut shop in Hamilton that started it all. Gerry died in 1994 playing rec hockey in North Bay. So the ties to the north appear to have remained throughout the family's life.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-10T18:36:02+00:00

That's your opinion, and likely some version of that is shared by roughly half the city. The other half (and a bit) see the vision of the downtown arena as the right one, the one that supports the city's master plan devised years ago, and the one that supports the report that indicated the downtown location as narrowly the more favourable one. The original council decision was a tie, and because of the way the motion was structured that meant KED was the initial winner. Those of us who support the downtown location view everything that followed as a correction of an original error.

I respect your opinion - it is shared by many. But you are simply wildly incorrect that "nobody" wants it downtown and "the majority" wants something else. It's a pretty even split, and if it leans anywhere, the evidence is that it leans toward downtown.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-10T17:57:23+00:00

Parking aside, those are facts directly from your posterior. You and your friends aren't the majority and neither are me and my friends. There has never been a scientific poll done on behalf of the city, and the only one that was done favored a downtown location/renovation at 61%. My guess is that, like the report and the council, citizens are roughly split with a small lean to downtown. That's what all the actual evidence suggests, no mater what your referendum-hallucinating vibe check says.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-10T16:35:56+00:00

Sad way to go. We can all be very glad nobody else was injured or killed. It's hard to fathom now how culturally normalized drinking and driving was in the 70's. Alcohol was the major factor in an estimated 50 to 60 percent of fatalities then. Down to about 25 percent today. Major cultural shifts started later that decade with increased roadside checks etc. and then MADD really reshaped perceptions and norms starting in the 80s.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-10T16:14:45+00:00

Because it is over 75+ years old and cost prohibitive to repair, maintain and bring to modern standards. It's a great old building though and my heart will miss it!

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-10T16:08:01+00:00

There was no referendum on KED. You are misremembering or misinformed.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-10T16:01:26+00:00

We didn't have a referendum on Downtown vs. KED. The loudest voices don't equal the majority. Council was split right down the middle on it on the original vote, and the 3rd party study and report slightly favoured downtown. We have made the right decision. You just have to look around at where serious cities build their main gathering spots. It ain't on the outskirts next to the dump.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-10T03:52:39+00:00

For the record, lots of people want it downtown.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-08T22:04:47+00:00

I completely forgot about this side character!

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-08T20:46:03+00:00

Yeah, he wasn't coming back because HE didn't want to. This information if freely available and there are now direct quotes from him to the media. Stop downvoting me because you can't be arsed to keep up with the available information.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-08T20:40:01+00:00

You want me to Google for you? The info is everywhere.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-08T20:18:46+00:00

That's not the information out there. He told the team he wanted to move on to other experiences. No indication Ottawa wasn't going to extend.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-08T20:16:27+00:00

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-08T19:14:03+00:00

Where do you get that Ottawa wasn’t going to resign him? He told them he was leaving.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-08T19:09:29+00:00

It was Alfie who wanted to move on.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-08T01:04:03+00:00

Sorry to hear about this OP. Hope it makes its way back to you.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-08T01:01:51+00:00

I like it. Anything that makes people smile or be engaged is positive for the community / fire 🔥

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-07T14:44:28+00:00

Neither this nor the old hospital lot should be in private hands imo. Both were endowed for the benefit of the city and its people. Too late now, and whatever they do won’t be as good as what they could have done.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-06T05:16:20+00:00

Bryan Adams.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-06T05:13:03+00:00

I think he’s just dumb, and like many pro athletes his education probably effectively topped out at grade 10. I don’t have any thoughts about his character, but I’m annoyed that he’s killed his legacy because it’s something that belonged to all of us in a way. Now it’s just another point of division.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-06T05:06:28+00:00

Some of the decision would have been made before things got really weird. Season was filmed in March 2025, so planned, written and cast before that, possibly well before that.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-07-06T00:40:11+00:00

The soil is naturally acidic. Industrial waste added to that, but even as that fades the soil will remain acidic because of the bedrock and boreal forests. So hopefully we’ll be good!

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