Thursday, August 14, 2014

Thousand Island Park Fire ~ Wellesley Island ~The Morning After



WELLESLEY ISLAND — A large fire and explosion destroyed a prominent building on the island late Wednesday into Thursday morning.
The blaze destroyed the Guzzle building, near the intersection of St. Lawrence Avenue and Rainbow Street East, which housed multiple businesses along with the Thousand Island Park Fire Station for the Wellesley Island Fire Department, according to a witness at the scene. Continue...


 View from behind TI Park fire department










 TI Park Mercantile Art & Toy store


The picture above was hanging on the wall in the mercantile, it survived the fire .
 It is an artists rendering of Rainbow Street East
as it looked before it was devastated by fire


 TI Park Post office

 Interior view of TI Park Post office

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Don Metzger: a life on the water

“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters…”
— Psalm 107:23
There are some professions in which the living is physically written on the body, like the dirt under the fingernails of a farmer or the dust on a construction worker’s back.
 Don Metzger Wind Warrior
Don Metzger, a St. Lawrence Seaway pilot, is 69 years old. He has worked in the maritime industry for 51 years. Next year, when he turns 70, he will have to retire. Continue...