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Auberge Du Petit Prince’s Last Supper
London Ontario has few fine dining restaurants. Auberge Du Petit Prince is a French cuisine experience unlike any other in town. On February 22nd I went to record the last dinner service. I found out that this was much more than just another restaurant closing. The aroma of escargot, trout and lobster gnocchi wafts throughout…
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Cafés find board games their cup of tea
Jenny Mayer and Jessica Cooper stare at a chestnut-brown chess board, planning out their next move. Mayer sits by the window, quietly sipping a cup of orange pekoe tea as traffic outside on Dundas Street rumbles by. For these two friends, The Cardboard Café offers a reason to leave the house. “It’s nice to get out and…
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Out on a Limb
Tree farms are not something you’d ordinarily find in elementary schools. But for 16 London schools, they’re part of the curriculum. Students are participating in the School Community Tree Challenge. It’s part of ReForest London’s campaign to plant one million trees in the city. Emily Carr Public School planted 300 hundred trees in early February.…
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No cure for bats dying of fungal disease
Long considered scary and carriers of diseases by many, bats are falling victim to a disease they can’t battle. Their populations are being decimated in North America since a disease called white-nose syndrome arrived in New York in 2006 from Europe. It made its way to eastern Canada in 2010, and since then it has…