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The Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour is broadcast on NPR (National Public Radio)

s4.e6. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – The Great Techno Challenge

A tranquil ecosystem for thousands of years has been disrupted in the past century by choices in advanced technology that have forced the Great Lakes into a battle to preserve its natural habitat.

David Jude, Educator, Limnologist and Biologist, retired, shares findings on his ten years of research at a nuclear power plant on Lake Michigan, on the impact of facility operations and its effects on fishes.

Walter Reuther, the late influential UAW Labor Leader, spearheaded the 1965 Clear Water Conference at Detroit’s Cobo Hall, inspiring the first binational Water Quality Agreement. Actor Robert Cooper narrates.

Grumpy Singlaub, of music group LOWFREQUENCYoscillator, of Acme Arts Collective from Chicago, juxtaposing the day’s issues with sonic effects that challenge one’s thinking about life in modern times.

Featured Music: Tchiya Amet. Whiskey Howl. David Jude. LOWFREQUENCYoscillator.
Music beds: Rusty McCarthy. LOWFREQUENCYoscillator.
Theme music: Ray Bonneville. Rusty McCarthy.

Painting: Portrait by Gary McGuffin

s4.e6. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – The Great Techno Challenge – MUSIC CREDITS

Title – Big Five Water
Artist – Ray Bonneville

Title – Tree Of Life
Album – Black Turtle Island
Artist/ Composer – Tchiya Amet

Title – St. Mary’s River Fantasy
Album – Nocturnes
Artist /Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Rock Island Line
Album – First Collection
Artist /Composer – Whiskey Howl

Title – Entangoed
Album – Little Things
Artist /Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – The Galloping Goby Blues
Album – Wandering Spirit
Artist /Composer – David Jude

Title – My Spanish Fling
Album – Little Things
Artist /Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – O Me O Maja
Album – Little Things
Artist /Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Lady Of The Lake
Album – Little Things
Artist /Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Water
Artist / Composer – LOWFREQUENCYoscillator
Album – Sleepsounds

Title – Number Erie
Artist / Composer – LOWFREQUENCYoscillator
Album – Great Lakes

Title – Element Huron
Artist / Composer – LOWFREQUENCYoscillator
Album – Great Lakes

Title – Descendant Ontario
Artist / Composer – LOWFREQUENCYoscillator
Album – Great Lakes

Title – Return Michigan
Artist / Composer – LOWFREQUENCYoscillator
Album – Great Lakes

Title – Everyday Epiphany Superior
Artist / Composer – LOWFREQUENCYoscillator
Album – Great Lakes

Visit: raybonneville.com

Visit: rustyandmaja.com

Visit: reuther.wayne.edu

Visit: lowfrequencyoscillator.bandcamp.com/album/great-lakes

This program produced by GLOW Radio Partners in venture with The Borderline Events Co.

Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Great Lakes Odyssey World is a multi-national effort to strengthen and explore our relationship with the natural wonders known as the Great Lakes.

In this part of the project, we have created a multi-part audio series looking at the way the Great Lakes shape our lives, our livelihoods, our health and our culture.

50 years ago, folks in the media and elsewhere were ready to declare the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie “dead.”

The thought so appalled citizens in Canada and the United States, they forced their national governments to act.

Because, of course, the Great Lakes shape the life of both Canada and the United States. And, of course, the Great Lakes are a single system stretching from Duluth to Ottawa and down the St. Lawrence seaway. What happens to any of the Lakes will soon happen to the others.

So, the politicians of 50 years ago negotiated the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, “for the purpose of restoring, protecting and enhancing the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes basin.”

50 years later, we can see the agreement worked. We see more fish, cleaner water, and less pollution. Unlike the early settlers and colonials, who mostly saw the Lakes as a resource to tap, we now recognize, like the First Nations, the Lakes are part of our identity. They shape our relationships, our songs and celebrations of place, the way we eat, how we play, and what we make, or sell, or harvest.

50 years since the wake-up call of a burning river, Great Lakes Odyssey wants to learn how we live and love, hurt and restore the incredible gift which is the Great Lakes.

We will explore Great Lakes art and artistic expression, and meet the artists, writers, musicians who make it. We will also dip into Great Lakes history and lore – and learn from the people who have been here the longest and know it the best: The People of the Three Fires, the Anishinaabek.

On our Odyssey around the Great Lakes, we will also hear from people working to prevent poisonous algal blooms or stop the spread of invasive species. We will meet visionaries undoing decades of development that hardened shorelines, emptied marshes and wetlands, and destroyed critical spawning grounds. We will talk to people working to ensure all beings have access to pure drinking water.

Because none of us can live without pure drinking water.

In this wondrous place we call the Great Lakes, we know we are blessed by these Sweet Water Seas. We claim them as our H.O.M.E.S. as the emotionally accurate mnemonic says. They are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior, and they are our HOMES.

As long as humans have lived in, and of and through the Lakes, people have told stories about them, sung about them, and gloried in this great gift of the long departed Ice Age. Left by glaciers thousands of years ago, they are the World’s storehouse of fresh water. If they are drained… or ruined… or damaged, they can never be replaced.

So, as we travel around the Great Lakes basin, we want to see how we are doing – what we are doing – how we’re feeling and what we’re learning as we try to live as lovers and restorers – and children and family – of the being whom the Anishinaabek call Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin, the five freshwater seas.

We hope to galvanize, inspire, and motivate you to strengthen, support and steward the Great Lakes to a beautiful and healthy future.

So please join us on this magical, dare we say “magical mystery tour” of the Great Lakes basin and Great Lakes culture.

Date:17 May 2026 .

Symptoms include hot flashes, night sweats, and mood changes, manageable through lifestyle changes or hormone therapy. It’s the natural, permanent end of menstruation, diagnosed after 12 consecutive months without a period, typically occurring around age 52, called menopause. The ladies have a coach in for a detailed discussion to lead a talk, a talk women of past generations avoided as much as possible.

Date:14 May 2026 .

The Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour is broadcast on NPR (National Public Radio)

s4.e5. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – Past Into Present

Generation after generation has journeyed the long path to arrive at where we are today and our actions in the present will affect the generations yet to come on this Great Lakes Odyssey.

Zoey Wood-Salomon, painter in the traditional Woodland style that reflects her Odawa-Ojibway heritage, on the Seven Grandmother Teachings of how we as people should live our lives on Mother Earth.

Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, engineer and producer has garnered critical acclaim for his blend of cabaret pop and glam rock, riffs on growing up in The Muskokas.

John-Paul Chalykoff, Assistant Professor in Anishinaabe Studies at Algoma University focuses on utilizing music and puppetry to encourage learning and retaining Anishinaabemowin, the Anishinaabe language.

Music: Eric & The Soo. Hawksley Workman. J.P. Chalykoff.
Music beds: Rusty McCarthy. Damjam.
Theme music: Ray Bonneville. Rusty McCarthy.

Painting: Journey On The Great Lakes by Zoey Wood-Salomon

s4.e5. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour Music Credits

Title – Big Five Water
Artist – Ray Bonneville

Title – Today’s News (Nothing To Worry About)
Album – Algoma Street
Artist – Eric & The Soo
Composer – Eric Brombacher and Ken Yokiosho

Title – St. Mary’s River Fantasy
Album – Nocturnes
Artist /Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Spa Music
Album – First Collection
Artist /Composer – Damjam

Title – Wolfhead
Album – Nocturnes
Artist /Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – September 26th 27th 28th
Album – First Collection
Artist /Composer – Damjam

Title – Mino Gizhep (Part 1)
Album – First Collection
Artist /Composer – Damjam

Title – Ice Age
Album – Treeful Of Starling
Artist / Composer – Hawksley Workman

Title – Where They Left It Wild
Album – Unreleased
Artist / Composer – Hawksley Workman

Title – Autumn’s Here
Album – Lover/Fighter
Artist / Composer – Hawksley Workman

Title – Bezhig Niizh Niswi (2020 Version)
Artist / Composer – J.P. Chalykoff

Title – Enaanzowaad Awesiinyag
Artist / Composer – J.P. Chalykoff

Visit: raybonneville.com

Visit: rustyandmaja.com

Visit: eastsideconfectioneryrecords.com

Visit: algomaartsociety.ca/76-zoey-wood-salomon-noaa

Visit: hawksleyworkman.com

Visit: jpchalykoff.com

This program produced by GLOW Radio Partners in venture with The Borderline Events Co.

Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Great Lakes Odyssey World is a multi-national effort to strengthen and explore our relationship with the natural wonders known as the Great Lakes.

In this part of the project, we have created a multi-part audio series looking at the way the Great Lakes shape our lives, our livelihoods, our health and our culture.

50 years ago, folks in the media and elsewhere were ready to declare the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie “dead.”

The thought so appalled citizens in Canada and the United States, they forced their national governments to act.

Because, of course, the Great Lakes shape the life of both Canada and the United States. And, of course, the Great Lakes are a single system stretching from Duluth to Ottawa and down the St. Lawrence seaway. What happens to any of the Lakes will soon happen to the others.

So, the politicians of 50 years ago negotiated the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, “for the purpose of restoring, protecting and enhancing the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes basin.”

50 years later, we can see the agreement worked. We see more fish, cleaner water, and less pollution. Unlike the early settlers and colonials, who mostly saw the Lakes as a resource to tap, we now recognize, like the First Nations, the Lakes are part of our identity. They shape our relationships, our songs and celebrations of place, the way we eat, how we play, and what we make, or sell, or harvest.

50 years since the wake-up call of a burning river, Great Lakes Odyssey wants to learn how we live and love, hurt and restore the incredible gift which is the Great Lakes.

We will explore Great Lakes art and artistic expression, and meet the artists, writers, musicians who make it. We will also dip into Great Lakes history and lore – and learn from the people who have been here the longest and know it the best: The People of the Three Fires, the Anishinaabek.

On our Odyssey around the Great Lakes, we will also hear from people working to prevent poisonous algal blooms or stop the spread of invasive species. We will meet visionaries undoing decades of development that hardened shorelines, emptied marshes and wetlands, and destroyed critical spawning grounds. We will talk to people working to ensure all beings have access to pure drinking water.

Because none of us can live without pure drinking water.

In this wondrous place we call the Great Lakes, we know we are blessed by these Sweet Water Seas. We claim them as our H.O.M.E.S. as the emotionally accurate mnemonic says. They are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior, and they are our HOMES.

As long as humans have lived in, and of and through the Lakes, people have told stories about them, sung about them, and gloried in this great gift of the long departed Ice Age. Left by glaciers thousands of years ago, they are the World’s storehouse of fresh water. If they are drained… or ruined… or damaged, they can never be replaced.

So, as we travel around the Great Lakes basin, we want to see how we are doing – what we are doing – how we’re feeling and what we’re learning as we try to live as lovers and restorers – and children and family – of the being whom the Anishinaabek call Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin, the five freshwater seas.

We hope to galvanize, inspire, and motivate you to strengthen, support and steward the Great Lakes to a beautiful and healthy future.

So please join us on this magical, dare we say “magical mystery tour” of the Great Lakes basin and Great Lakes culture.

Date:10 May 2026 .

Friendship among women is pure treasure. The sisterhood is a part of life that is essential to happiness, and to strong mental and spiritual health. Without the sisterhood to accompany the journey the ladies feel the path is too fraught with negative obstacles to travel safely. The conversation rambles down memory lane and good feels, but the ladies keep it under control so that crying towels are not required.

Date:7 May 2026 .

MUSICOLOGY is powered by Long & McQuade, 647 MacDonald Ave, Sault Ste. Marie, ON

MUSICOLOGY with dj Danny Mott

Musicology is a form of music analysis that emphasizes culture, sociology, and music history. When musicologists study music, they go beyond the notes on a page. Among other things, they track the history of music, the evolution of musical instruments, cultural contexts of various genres, and performance practices associated with certain types of musical ensembles.

About Your Host

DANNY MOTT was born in England and raised in Canada. Danny has been involved in myriad recordings and in various countries, most notably in Jamaica and Cuba.

Danny’s music is released under the moniker, “Mocombo” where he acts as composer, producer, engineer and musician. Mocombo is a versatile band project that shifts effortlessly between world music, traditional blues, Cuban jazz and blues rock.

Danny has a rich academic background in music that includes various diplomas, degrees and certificates. Danny’s studies include; Classical guitar from the Algoma Conservatory of Music; Composition, performance, music history, music business and retailing from Humber College of Applied Arts; North Indian Hindustani classical music at the Academy Of Eastern Fine Arts; Adult teaching techniques for music at Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology; Music education at the University of Victoria; Studio recording from the Institute of Recording and Arts; Music theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music; Music and anthropology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Dean’s Honour List; Religious traditions of Islam at the University of Waterloo.

Danny’s music performance and work history are also impressive. As a tour promoter, acts like Gordon Lightfoot and Ravi Shankar; as a music teacher at Nelson Music in B.C.; Music Marketing Director and music technician at Saved By Technology in Toronto, with a client list including the Rolling Stones, Rush, Barenaked Ladies, Jane Siberry, and many more; Marketing and Sales Director for On Publications Inc., a national distribution of music print medium company; Marketing Director for Roy Creations International in Montreal, for the Canadian Recording Industry Association.

Danny has orchestrated several projects, including a film in the Cuban language, with the participation of Cuba’s National Dance Company.

Danny’s project, Mocombo, has issued seven outstanding CDs: Odyssey, Zubie Zubie, Dreamscape, Flophouse Daddy, Flophouse Daddy Returns (Boldly Going Nowhere), Global 360 and Mocombo in Habana Project (2 CD set).

Danny Mott

Date:6 May 2026 .

The Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour is broadcast on NPR (National Public Radio)

s4.e4. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – The Meeting Place At The River

Forever, down by the river has been the perfect spot for people to gather, to pow-wow, to share their journeys in companionship while enjoying the flowing waters where they meet land and sky and wildlife.

Joel Syrette, Algoma University adjunct professor and culture-based educator explores the enduring history of the Anishinaabe and their pow-wow celebration at the gathering place.

Michael Twiss, Professor of Limnology at Algoma University, gives knowledge on the Great Lakes waterway system and the super-importance of the connecting rivers for both human and wildlife.

Katrina Hamilton, Writer/Blogger, on the song ‘Sault Ste. Marie’, written by Producer/Sound Engineer/Musician Kevin Bowe, his story on writing the song about the city at the gathering place.

Featured Music: M.D. Dunn. Eugene Smith. Kevin Bowe & The Okemah Prophets. Three Dog Night.
Music beds: Dion Syrette. LOWFREQUENCYoscillator. Kevin Bowe.
Theme music: Ray Bonneville. Rusty McCarthy.

Painting: Meeting By Canoe by Gord McKenzie

s4.e4. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour Music Credits

Title – Big Five Water
Artist – Ray Bonneville

Title – Bawating
Album – Clay Rooster
Artist/ Composer – M.D. Dunn

Title – St. Mary’s River Fantasy
Album – Nocturnes
Artist /Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Ms. Canada 2020
Artist / Composer – Dion Syrette

Title – Thank You Mother
Artist / Composer – Eugene Smith

Title – Everyday Epiphany – Superior
Album – Great Lakes
Artist / Composer – LOWFREQUENCYoscillator

Title – Doohickey
Album – Sixth Dimension
Artist / Composer – Kevin Bowe

Title – Sault Ste. Marie
Album – Restoration
Artist – Kevin Bowe & The Okemah Prophets
Composer – Kevin Bowe

Title – Outlaw Instrumental
Artist – The Hellenbacks
Composer – Kevin Bowe

Title – Sault Ste. Marie
Album – With London Symphony Orchestra
Artist – Three Dog Night
Composer – Kevin Bowe

Visit: raybonneville.com

Visit: rustyandmaja.com

Visit: mddunn.com

Visit: kevinbowe.com

Visit: lowfrequencyoscillator.bandcamp.com/album/great-lakes

This program produced by GLOW Radio Partners in venture with The Borderline Events Co.

Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Great Lakes Odyssey World is a multi-national effort to strengthen and explore our relationship with the natural wonders known as the Great Lakes.

In this part of the project, we have created a multi-part audio series looking at the way the Great Lakes shape our lives, our livelihoods, our health and our culture.

50 years ago, folks in the media and elsewhere were ready to declare the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie “dead.”

The thought so appalled citizens in Canada and the United States, they forced their national governments to act.

Because, of course, the Great Lakes shape the life of both Canada and the United States. And, of course, the Great Lakes are a single system stretching from Duluth to Ottawa and down the St. Lawrence seaway. What happens to any of the Lakes will soon happen to the others.

So, the politicians of 50 years ago negotiated the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, “for the purpose of restoring, protecting and enhancing the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes basin.”

50 years later, we can see the agreement worked. We see more fish, cleaner water, and less pollution. Unlike the early settlers and colonials, who mostly saw the Lakes as a resource to tap, we now recognize, like the First Nations, the Lakes are part of our identity. They shape our relationships, our songs and celebrations of place, the way we eat, how we play, and what we make, or sell, or harvest.

50 years since the wake-up call of a burning river, Great Lakes Odyssey wants to learn how we live and love, hurt and restore the incredible gift which is the Great Lakes.

We will explore Great Lakes art and artistic expression, and meet the artists, writers, musicians who make it. We will also dip into Great Lakes history and lore – and learn from the people who have been here the longest and know it the best: The People of the Three Fires, the Anishinaabek.

On our Odyssey around the Great Lakes, we will also hear from people working to prevent poisonous algal blooms or stop the spread of invasive species. We will meet visionaries undoing decades of development that hardened shorelines, emptied marshes and wetlands, and destroyed critical spawning grounds. We will talk to people working to ensure all beings have access to pure drinking water.

Because none of us can live without pure drinking water.

In this wondrous place we call the Great Lakes, we know we are blessed by these Sweet Water Seas. We claim them as our H.O.M.E.S. as the emotionally accurate mnemonic says. They are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior, and they are our HOMES.

As long as humans have lived in, and of and through the Lakes, people have told stories about them, sung about them, and gloried in this great gift of the long departed Ice Age. Left by glaciers thousands of years ago, they are the World’s storehouse of fresh water. If they are drained… or ruined… or damaged, they can never be replaced.

So, as we travel around the Great Lakes basin, we want to see how we are doing – what we are doing – how we’re feeling and what we’re learning as we try to live as lovers and restorers – and children and family – of the being whom the Anishinaabek call Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin, the five freshwater seas.

We hope to galvanize, inspire, and motivate you to strengthen, support and steward the Great Lakes to a beautiful and healthy future.

So please join us on this magical, dare we say “magical mystery tour” of the Great Lakes basin and Great Lakes culture.

Date:3 May 2026 .

Jane’s Walk is an annual festival of free, citizen-led walking conversations inspired by Jane Jacobs. Happening locally and internationally each year the first weekend in May.

Jane’s Walk Sault Ste. Marie: Celebrate Community, Stories & Connection
Lace up your walking shoes and get ready to explore your city.

The 2026 edition of Jane’s Walk Sault Ste. Marie is set to take place from
May 1 to May 3, inviting residents to join a series of free, citizen-led walking tours to spark conversation, celebrate community voices, and deepen our connection to the places we call home.
Inspired by the legacy of urbanist and activist Jane Jacobs, Jane’s Walks are a movement of
free, citizen-led walking to get people to share stories about their communities, explore their
cities, and connect with neighbours.
“Jane’s Walk is about more than just walking—it’s about listening, learning, and seeing our city
through each other’s eyes,” said Rachel Silva, one of the local coordinators. “Whether you’re
new to the Soo or have lived here your whole life, these walks offer a chance to connect, reflect,
and imagine a more inclusive and vibrant future for our community.”

2026 Walk Schedule

Conditions: Rain or shine.  It is recommended to wear suitable footwear.

� Friday: May 1, 2026

� Time: 12 – 2 p.m.
� Description: A walk in a forgotten neighbourhood: Frenchtown/
Une marche dans un quartier oublié: la paroisse Saint-Ignace
. Bring a sketchbook as the walk will feature sketching and walking. The walk will include a short lesson on St. Ignatius church in the 50’s./
Apportez un calepin de dessin et vos crayons, la marche comportera une petite leçon sur l’église Saint-Ignace dans les années 50 et des croquis en plein air.
The walk will be in French and English / walk with someone who can translate for you. /
La marche sera en anglais et en français, marchez avec quelqu’un qui peut traduire pour vous.
� Starting point: Former Église Saint-Ignace, 322 Cathcart St. (corner of Beverley St. and Cathcart St.)

� Time: 3:30 p.m.
� Description: The War of 1812 historical Jane’s Walk will discuss how the first attack of the war started in the Sault and Algoma, the retaliation of the United States on Sault Ste. Marie and Fort St. Joseph, and how the final battle of the war happened nearby. Other topics to include Francis H. Clergue’s projects along the St. Mary’s River and the history of the Lake Superior Company.
� Starting point: Ermatinger-Clergue National Historic Site (Old Stone House), 831 Queen St. East

� Ending point: Algoma Conservatory of Music, 75 Huron St.

� Time: 6:30 p.m.
� Description: Special Event! Good Neighbour Training: The session invites participants to explore local and national data to deepen their understanding of the roots and realities of homelessness in our community. The evening will focus on challenging stigma and fear while offering respectful, practical ways to engage with our neighbours without a fixed address with the goal of building understanding.
� Starting point: Café 4 Good, 326 Queen St. East

� Saturday: May 2, 2026

� Time: 10 a.m. – 11:30
� Description: Join Michael Burtch for a walk exploring the life and legacy of Gordon Webber. A pioneer of multi-media art in Canada, Webber was born in Sault Ste. Marie in 1909. Through his teaching at McGill University he significantly influenced the direction of architecture. He also fought to preserve historic buildings and districts. The walk will proceed from the museum to the neighbourhood where Webber grew up around Pilgrim St.
� Starting & Ending point: Sault Ste. Marie Museum, 690 Queen St. East

� Time: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
� Description: A display of Jane Jacobs’ titles and works
� Starting point: The Algoma University Wishart Library

� Time: 12 p.m.
� Description: Back by popular demand, the Searchmont Community Jane’s Walk will search for cultural and historic sites near the Goulais River & the ACR. Following the walk, view displays & website in new Searchmont Historical Society History Room.
� Starting & Ending point: Searchmont Community Centre, 734 Highway 532

� Time: 2 p.m.
� Description: With Bryan Davies of Tagona Press leading a chat on the book, Dear Rita
� Starting point: SSM Museum

� Time: 3 p.m.
� Description: An annual favourite, the Heritage Trees Walk beings in front of the Sault’s oldest tree, a 300 year old bur oak, across the street from the Sault’s rarest tree, a North American chestnut. The walk will focus on indigenous, historic, cultural and botanic perspectives.
� Starting & Ending point: Bishophurst, 134 Simpson St.

� Sunday: May 3, 2026

� Time: 10 – 11:30 a.m.
� Description: Join us for a flavorful walk along Queen Street, beginning at City Meat Market and ending at Spring Street. This Jane’s Walk will take you through the evolving food scene of Sault Ste. Marie, highlighting the restaurants, stories, and communities that have shaped it over the years. From long-standing local favourites to new and diverse culinary additions, we will explore how food reflects the city’s history, culture, and changing identity. Come ready to walk, learn, and experience SSM one bite at a time.
� Starting point: City Meat Market, 814 Queen St. East

� Ending point: Spring St.

� Time: 12 – 1 p.m.
� Description: The Steelton Jane’s Walk will include discussion of the city’s ‘dividing’ line and entry into the west end, short history of Steelton, and the story of the Brown Street Grand Prix.
� Starting & Ending point: Outside the Stockhouse Grill, 192 Wellington St. East

Walks typically run 60–90 minutes. No registration required—just show up and join in!

Anybody can lead a Jane’s Walk!
The festival encourages people to share stories about their neighbourhoods, discover unseen aspects of their communities, and use the art of walking as a way to connect with their neighbours.
Jane’s Walk Sault Ste. Marie is part of a global movement, with cities around the world participating each year to honour Jane Jacobs’ belief in walkable, livable cities shaped by the people who live in them.

Jane’s Walk is inspired by Jane Jacobs.

Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was a writer, urbanist and activist who championed a community-based approach to city-building. She had no formal training as a planner, and yet her 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, introduced ground-breaking ideas about how cities function, evolve, and fail that have become conceptual pillars for today’s architects, planners, policymakers, activists, and other city builders.

Jacobs lived in Greenwich Village until 1968 when she moved to Toronto. In both cities, she helped derail the car-centred approach to urban planning and invigorated neighbourhood and community activism.

LOVE Local!

Date:29 April 2026 .

Episode 13: INDIGO SERIES CHILDREN

What is an Indigo child – or a Crystal child, or a Rainbow child? And now, the Aquarius children are being born. Maria is an Indigo child, and with Fidgal by her side, they take us through recent history to teach us what is going on in today’s topsy-turvy world, a place in the throes of massive change. Can it be these children are the future’s saving grace?

THE NEW NORMAL PODCAST w. Maria & Fidgal

Maria guides a successful business called Fidgal, named after Maria’s guardian angel. They met when Maria was 5 years old.

Maria is a Peace Therapist, graduated with Honours in Peace and Conflict Studies from Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology. With this knowledge, along with her expertise in the afterlife and her ability to see auras, Maria helps others find and create peace in their lives.

Visit: fidgal.com

“Well, Indigo means a unique blend of colours so how about a unique blend of gifts I will give them.”

Date:28 April 2026 .

Joanne Tookenay is an Anishinaabe Elder, a survivor who grew up in a traumatizing childhood, sexually abused by several men in the community. As a student in adult learning school she was encouraged by a teacher to write a story. What ended up on the paper served as the beginning of a long journey to coping with her past and to preserve her present. All these years later, Joanne has written her story to publish, to put the horrors she had to live out in the open, to speak truth, and to help similar others go through the mental health challenges they may be facing.

Aleisha A. Parr is a writer, artist and entrepreneur who calls both Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto home. She holds a Specialised Honours BFA from York University in Theatre (Devised Ensemble Creation; Playwriting) with a double minor in Psychology and Cultural Studies. She is also the Founder and Managing Editor of Type A Media.

Type A Media is a small press and indie literary publisher in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, established with an aim to publish fresh, diverse voices in poetry, creative non-fiction, flash fiction, visual arts, cultural thinkpieces, and hybrid creative works from Northern Ontario and beyond.

We prioritise supporting voices from our northern communities because they are underrepresented in the publishing world. While our shared geography has definitely helped inform and inspire these voices, we know it certainly does not – and should not – limit them. We are interested in promoting those works which both celebrate our diversity and explore our shared experiences.

Date:28 April 2026 .

The Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour is broadcast on NPR (National Public Radio)

s4.e3. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – Great Lakes Great Read

Inspired by its beauty, the Great Lakes Great Read is a “one book, one community” program impassioned to deepen the connection to a waterway system that has shaped national histories and continues to sculpt stories today.

John Freeman, B.A., M.F.A., publishes poetry and creative nonfiction under the name “Cal Freeman” while lecturing in his unique style at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

Anne Moser is Manager at Wisconsin Water Library in the Aquatic Sciences Center, the administrative home for the Sea Grant and Water Resources Institutes, and is the Education Coordinator for the Wisconsin Sea Grant.

Sally Cole-Misch, advocate of the natural world, an environmental communicator, a writer, and author of ‘The Best Part Of Us’ where we find cultural understanding of the Ojibwe and Welsh traditions.

Joanne Robertson, Misko Anungo Kwe (Red Star Woman) is an Anishinaabe author, illustrator, and water protection activist, and she champions the late Josephine Mandamin.

Anna Stadick is the library director at U of Wisconsin-Parkside and serves on the Council of UW Libraries, a group that brings the library directors of UW campuses together to strategize.

Featured Music: Stephen Fearing. Drastic. Holly Miranda (feat. Kyp Malone). Supermoon vs The Great Lakes. The Fuddles.
Music beds: Doug Wilde. Roddy Elias. Rusty McCarthy. Michael Yurich.
Theme music: Ray Bonneville. Rusty McCarthy.

Illustration: Joey Scarfone ‘Poet’s Corner’

s4.e3. Great Lakes Great Read Music Credits

Title – Big Five Water
Artist – Ray Bonneville

Title – Above The Water
Album – The Empathist
Artist/ Composer – Stephen Fearing

Title – Lake Erie Wave
Album – Wits
Artist / Composer – Drastic

Title – Water Music
Album – Sixth Dimension
Artist / Composer – Doug Wilde

Title – Water Is Life
Album – Virtual Funeral
Artist / Composer – Holly Miranda (feat. Kyp Malone)

Title – Sketches Of Tomorrow
Album – Sixth Dimension
Artist / Composer – Doug Wilde

Title – Moon Over Lake
Album – Moon Over Lake
Artist / Composer – Roddy Elias

Title – Rainbow Dance
Album – Moon Over Lake
Artist / Composer – Roddy Elias

Title – Butterfly Dreams
Album – Moon Over Lake
Artist / Composer – Roddy Elias

Title – Chant
Album – Moon Over Lake
Artist / Composer – Roddy Elias

Title – Prelude
Album – Moon Over Lake
Artist / Composer – Roddy Elias

Title – Monkey Business
Album – Moon Over Lake
Artist / Composer – Roddy Elias

Title – Introduction
Album – Supermoon vs The Great Lakes
Artist – Supermoon vs The Great Lakes
Composer – Gehring Miller & Sarah Johnson

Title – Caravan Ho
Album – Little Things
Artist /Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – G Minoe Mood
Album – InstruMental
Artist / Composer – Michael Yurich

Title – Name It
Album – InstruMental
Artist / Composer – Michael Yurich

Title – Get Ready I Have Questions
Album – The Fuddles
Artist / Composer – The Fuddles

Visit: raybonneville.com

Visit: rustyandmaja.com

Visit: oakland.edu/wrt/facultystaff-directory/freeman

Visit: greatlakesgreatread.org

Visit: library.wisc.edu/people/anne-moser

Visit: hollymiranda.com

Visit: sallycole-misch.com

Visit: facebook.com/JoanneRobertsonStudio

Visit: supermoonvs.bandcamp.com/album/supermoon-vs-the-great-lakes

Visit: thefuddles.com

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Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Great Lakes Odyssey World is a multi-national effort to strengthen and explore our relationship with the natural wonders known as the Great Lakes.

In this part of the project, we have created a multi-part audio series looking at the way the Great Lakes shape our lives, our livelihoods, our health and our culture.

50 years ago, folks in the media and elsewhere were ready to declare the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie “dead.”

The thought so appalled citizens in Canada and the United States, they forced their national governments to act.

Because, of course, the Great Lakes shape the life of both Canada and the United States. And, of course, the Great Lakes are a single system stretching from Duluth to Ottawa and down the St. Lawrence seaway. What happens to any of the Lakes will soon happen to the others.

So, the politicians of 50 years ago negotiated the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, “for the purpose of restoring, protecting and enhancing the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes basin.”

50 years later, we can see the agreement worked. We see more fish, cleaner water, and less pollution. Unlike the early settlers and colonials, who mostly saw the Lakes as a resource to tap, we now recognize, like the First Nations, the Lakes are part of our identity. They shape our relationships, our songs and celebrations of place, the way we eat, how we play, and what we make, or sell, or harvest.

50 years since the wake-up call of a burning river, Great Lakes Odyssey wants to learn how we live and love, hurt and restore the incredible gift which is the Great Lakes.

We will explore Great Lakes art and artistic expression, and meet the artists, writers, musicians who make it. We will also dip into Great Lakes history and lore – and learn from the people who have been here the longest and know it the best: The People of the Three Fires, the Anishinaabek.

On our Odyssey around the Great Lakes, we will also hear from people working to prevent poisonous algal blooms or stop the spread of invasive species. We will meet visionaries undoing decades of development that hardened shorelines, emptied marshes and wetlands, and destroyed critical spawning grounds. We will talk to people working to ensure all beings have access to pure drinking water.

Because none of us can live without pure drinking water.

In this wondrous place we call the Great Lakes, we know we are blessed by these Sweet Water Seas. We claim them as our H.O.M.E.S. as the emotionally accurate mnemonic says. They are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior, and they are our HOMES.

As long as humans have lived in, and of and through the Lakes, people have told stories about them, sung about them, and gloried in this great gift of the long departed Ice Age. Left by glaciers thousands of years ago, they are the World’s storehouse of fresh water. If they are drained… or ruined… or damaged, they can never be replaced.

So, as we travel around the Great Lakes basin, we want to see how we are doing – what we are doing – how we’re feeling and what we’re learning as we try to live as lovers and restorers – and children and family – of the being whom the Anishinaabek call Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin, the five freshwater seas.

We hope to galvanize, inspire, and motivate you to strengthen, support and steward the Great Lakes to a beautiful and healthy future.

So please join us on this magical, dare we say “magical mystery tour” of the Great Lakes basin and Great Lakes culture.

Date:26 April 2026 .