Kathy Ashby Artist Writer Poet

  November 2021 Issue by Where It Begins - Issuu https://issuu.com/cecewibnet/docs/wib_november_2021-prev-04/32 Check out this Magazine. I have a feature article beginning on Page 32. This is where it Begins. Thanks to CeCe for the opportunity to promote my book, Carol: A Woman's Way and Chicken Soup for the Soul - Be You. Don't forget you can read my book.  Access Copyright is pleased to now make the Read Aloud Canadian Books Program available as a licence add-on for K-12 independent school digital licensees as well as public library licensees. To learn more, including how your school or library can sign up for the Read Aloud add-on, please contact us at info@accesscopyright.ca My book, Carol A Woman's Way is now available for school children to listen to.

NEW! This is a new program for schools. My book  is available to listen to. Cool! Access Copyright is pleased to now make the Read Aloud Canadian Books Program available as a licence add-on for K-12 independent school digital licensees as well as public library licensees. To learn more, including how your school or library can sign up for the Read Aloud add-on, please contact us at  info@accesscopyright.ca .

  This has also been published as a letter to the editor, Muskoka Region News. LEGAL RIGHTS OF FORESTS There has been a lot of interest in the news about Climate Change, how it relates to our Muskoka forests and how to protect them. Some environmental experts like Norm Yan and Peter Sale believe in the 'Legal Rights of Forests' and have said that, "People being responsible to look after the environment hasn't worked well." My husband and I protested the clear-cutting of old-growth forest for a snowmobile trail behind our home. They went ahead and cut it anyway, saying the economic benefit was more important. After our snowmobile trail protest, the Municipality of Bracebridge enacted a tree-cutting bylaw. But it did little good. They went ahead a year later and cut down the second largest yellow birch tree in Ontario, almost 13 feet in circumference because snowmobiles kept running into it. See the inset. Look closely. That is me, Kathy hugging the tree for t...

  More details at: Muskoka's Kathy Ashby thrives in 'A Man's Profession' featured in new Chicken Soup for the Soul book (muskokaregion.com) Blowing Glass And Breaking Barriers: Female Glassblower Reflects On Career Through Writing - muskoka411.com (1) Bracebridge Library (@BracebridgePL) / Twitter

A lot of reaction to my picture and post in facebook. "Baby Boomers - Hippies in the sixties/seventies would hold up two fingers to make a Peace Sign. Now we use both use hands and it means, I Got my Double Vax!" It could also mean V for Victory over the Covid virus. Hooray! It's all good. I am happy that Canadians in great numbers are getting their double vaccine against Covid-19. see Health Canada Stats as of June 25, 2021. Things will hopefully get back to normal soon.

https://muskoka411.com/blowing-glass-and-breaking-barriers-female-glassblower-reflects-on-career-through-writing/

  Vince Grittani, The Weekend Guy: Muskoka Glass Studio.wmv - YouTube 2010 Glass Class for Vince Grittani The Weekend Guy