Michael Peeling

Mar 19, 2024 | parisstaronline.com | Michael Peeling

Advertisement 1  •  Article contentLily proves the old show biz adage to ‘never work with kids or animals’ wrong. The five-year-old Yorkshire Terrier also makes it a trio of Paris performers in the Her Majesty's Players’ production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Her owner, Sandra Anderson, has been a regular in the theatre troupe, and Lily goes wherever Anderson goes. Grade 9 student Alexx Draper rounds out the Paris contingent of the show, playing daughter to Anderson’s gypsy madame Falourdel.

Mar 19, 2024 | parisstaronline.com | Michael Peeling

•   •  Article contentA Paris bakery without baguettes? Say it isn't so. For decades Paris Bakery downtown on Grand River Street North has served its customers well without the staple of French cuisine, but when Pierre Cambillard first visited the pâtisserie with his wife, a native of Paris, Ontario, he couldn't help but notice the absence of baguettes. Cambillard is no baker, but he is from France, so a week without baguettes is like a week without, well, good bread.

Mar 19, 2024 | parisstaronline.com | Michael Peeling

Advertisement 1  •   •  Article contentJada Murray likely didn’t expect to get an award for wiping out in the second annual Legends Soapbox Derby on Saturday morning. But the young girl showed a lot of grit after taking a tumble in her racer during a run down Broadway Street East during the Springtime in Paris event because she got right back up and got back in the race.

Mar 19, 2024 | parisstaronline.com | Michael Peeling

Advertisement 1  •   •  Article contentMelvin Dinsmore is no doctor, but feels he is more than qualified to coach people with vision loss through the tough times of adjusting to the condition. Dinsmore, 64, had his vision until he was 51, but within six months all of that changed. Now he has little vision left – about 10% - thanks to retinitis pigmentosa, a degeneration of the eye tissue his brother Doug was diagnosed with a young age.

Mar 19, 2024 | parisstaronline.com | Michael Peeling

Advertisement 1  •   •  Article contentIf Low Hanging Lights didn’t have religious fans before their NXNE set, they might have a few now. The folk and punk-influenced rock band - made up of two-thirds former Paris residents and drummer Aaron Bennett - took a new approach to getting the audience to sing along with their original material at the well-known Toronto arts and music festival.