ideas
This inaugural edition of the Ideas Issue is the culmination of the Lance’s efforts this year to re-envision the role and importance of locally-produced media both on and off the University of Windsor campus. Since the Lance’s relaunch last September, the newspaper has been embraced by university and community members alike. The newspaper is entirely grateful to the encouragement, loyalty and support of our readers and local advertisers. With the announcement that the Lance is moving from monthly to biweekly publishing this summer, it is our intention to bridge the gap that exist between our readers and their awareness of...
Jane McArthur Windsorite In 2008-2009, a project entitled “Reducing Chemical Exposures” undertook a community information gathering and idea-sharing project in Windsor and Essex County. Why was this public awareness raising and consultation process important? While some information about the risks related to pollution and hazardous industrial chemicals does reach us through the media and other sources, it is nevertheless often fragmented and difficult to decipher. Moreover there is very little focused community dialogue about these environmental concerns. It was the intention of the project to increase community members’ understanding of health risks related to chemical exposures and ultimately to influence...
Steve Palenkas Windsorite An acquaintance from Michigan (former co-worker) once told me during a visit to Toronto he noticed not even a bubble-gum wrapper floating in the air or laying on a surface. He said it was “the cleanest city he had ever seen.” That was a little over a decade ago, and I myself have not been there for several years. A massive initiative needs to be pursued to clean up all the stray garbage in this city. Along busy thoroughfares such as Ottawa Street and Tecumseh Road, there are trash cans on almost every corner; yet debris, ranging...
Teresa Piruzza MPP for Windsor West I dream of a region that innovates the boldest and best ideas I dream of a region that manufactures the latest technologies I dream of a region that arts flourish I dream of a region that green energy powers our homes I dream of a region that information technology is a way of life I dream of a region that never gives up I dream of a region that embraces multiculturalism I imagine Windsor Essex...
Steve Green Windsor-Essex Community Supported Agriculture The heart of the city is the riverfront and the neighbourhoods along the river, east to west. You can’t help but smile and feel good inside walking along the river, watching the water, the people, wondering who is looking back at you from the Detroit riverfront. Sure, it gets a little rowdy sometimes, but the alternative is a deafening quiet heard in the suburbs with neighbours who don’t even know each other. The ‘heart’ of the City of Windsor is ‘the river and land’ that sustains us. The heart of Windsor, though, is the...
Jonathon Liedtke Co-Chair, Mayor’s Youth Advisory Committee What is the heart of Windsor? While this seems like a simple question, the answer tends to be far more complicated than one would expect. Is downtown the heart of the city, or are the suburbs? How do you define the heart of the city: is it commercial, residential or cultural? Is it a geographical location which can be plotted to a map, or is it a feeling of something, a notion if you will? As I sat down to answer the question, immediately I began thinking about all the places that I...
Yvonne Pilon W.E.-Tech Alliance Windsor is full ideas. Here is a partial list of the many ideas that originated here. Gummy Bears CONTROL: Radix Controls has their eye on quality, with advanced vision inspections to ensure the highest levels of safety and quality in the cars you drive, the cell phones you stay connected with, the food you eat and the candy you love! Radix Controls has worked with several candy producers, including Cadbury, to deliver the highest quality in Gummy Bears and Sour Worms. Transformers microSITE: Revenge of the Fallen: Perhaps you were eating gummy bears when you saw...
Stephen Hargreaves Windsorite Dear Windsor, I fell in love with you from the moment I met you. You were not like the others; Toronto always trying and failing to be New York, London the wishy of washiness, in the beigest of trousers, and Chatham? Has anything ever happened in Chatham? You were honest, true and dirty. People who didn’t know you insulted you and I empathized. And now it’s been 10 years since I moved in with you, 10 rosy and thorny years. I’m sure it will come as little surprise to you that all is not well between us....
H.G. Watson Windsorite Grey. That’s what I saw when I first came to Windsor. I called a friend sobbing from my hotel room. “How can I live here?” I moaned. “There’s nothing here.” I grew up in Toronto, and went on to live in Hamilton. I traveled; a lot, and often. Windsor felt like a dead end. What stories would I get from here? As it turns out, plenty. When I go to a bar on College Street in Toronto, I tell my friends about The Loop. “There wouldn’t be a line there,” I say. “It’s big and they play...
Louise Jones Owner, Jones & Co. Vintage, Dig Windsor Fix Windsor? The word fix alludes to something that is broken. Instead, I see the current state of Windsor as a blank canvas. I believe we face a similar question that has confronted many great North American cities searching for an identity in a post industrial society. Windsor and her industry economy have nurtured and supported residents and their families for generations. Starting as far back as the 1920s, people migrated to Windsor for a better life. A factory or construction paycheck could afford a family a home, car, medical and...
