Lectures Winter 2024
Making Peace with Death
Wednesday,
Feb. 28, 2024
7-9PM
Almonte Branch of Mississippi Mills Public Library
Admission by Donation but Registration is Required
This transformative discussion on Making Peace with Death, with skilled grief counsellor Barbara Carroll, offers a refreshingly open, honest and even humorous approach to a subject that is often shrouded in taboo. Wide ranging topics such as inexplicable experiences around death, the impact of wills on beneficiaries, resolving relationship issues before death, and planning around your own death will provide valuable insights, practical strategies and larger life lessons that will better prepare you for one of life's inevitabilities
The Silent Crisis
Why so many of our young men and boys are struggling with their mental health
Wednesday
March 27, 2024
7-9PM
Almonte Branch of Mississippi Mills Public Library
Admission by Donation but
Registration is Required
From impulse control disorders as early as primary school to substance use, anxiety and suicide in teens and young men, we are confronting a serious mental health epidemic. Our own Dr. William Affleck, a psychiatrist with a keen interest in this demographic will share why this is happening and what can be done in the health care system and at home to alleviate the stresses for these young men and their families.
If you would like to be wait listed for this lecture please email us and include your phone number at: learningagainalmonte@gmail.com
"Community Gems series"
Seeking Safety
A Federal Court judge shares tales from her side of the bench
Friday
April 19, 2024
7-9PM
Almonte Branch of Mississippi Mills Public Library
Admission by Donation but Registration is Required
The Honourable Sandra Simpson travelled across Canada for 29 years hearing cases for the Federal Court, rendering her decisions in venues from the sublime to the ridiculous. Her favourite was under a swaying chandelier at the Yukon Hotel in Whitehorse. Sandy will share a little bit about how our judicial system works, will review some of her more memorable cases and will discuss her retirement work with Lanark County Community Justice.