Joe Barkovich
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Sep 9, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for St. Catharines Standard
- Top 500K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 29, 2026
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Growing up in Crowland, end of summer meant bittersweet goodbyes (opens the original)
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I have fond memories about growing up on King Street in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Some have to do with going back to school. Back then, as summer wore thin, haircut and school supply shopping rituals replaced almost daily bat and ball and glove rendezvous at the Cordage field ball diamond. The lesson for some of us boys of summer was hard to swallow: get ready to say goodbye to the holidays. So it was that on late August or early September Saturday mornings, you went to Pete Santoneâs ba
Niagara bird watcher finds joy in our feathered friends (opens the original)
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By the time you finish reading this, I hope you think this column is for the birds. It wonât hurt my feelings. Iâm a bird watcher. And a bird feeder. I came by it naturally. It grew out of my interest in gardening. A popular social media post I like to share does a good job explaining how I took things under wing: Year 1: I bought a feeder and I learned a few names. Year 2: I added a bird bath and I learned the songs. Year 3: I planted native flowers and they (birds) raised their babies here
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