![Reading until 2:00 am
rushing into class next morning
with every new idea
like a miner who'd just struck gold](https://i0.wp.com/www.neilmeili.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Pere-as-Miner.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
“Pere” – Father Athol Murray, founder of Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Saskatchewan
The window of St. Augustine in the Chapel Parish Church in Wilcox Saskatchewan, dedicated to the sixty-seven Notre Dame Hounds who lost their life in the Second World War.
Click to see the Notre Dame Stained Glass Windows & St. Augustine Church Tour
A link to the 1980 film The Hounds of Notre Dame – a glimpse of life at Notre Dame College in the 1940s and the extraordinary man who created it. Author also a former student.
View from our Edmonton window as wildfires rage through Alberta
A note for the 5-7-5 haiku purists out there : My Texas friends assure me that fire has one syllable and is pronounced far (and that a forest is where bars live)
Photo of author’s Uncle Bruce with Pepper circa 1928