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The Musical Comedy Guild of Sault Ste. Marie presented Disney’s The Little Mermaid in November of 2025, the classic Hans Christian Anderson tale brought to life on the stage complete with memorable songs from the movie and original songs from the stage production. The show featured all of your favourite Little Mermaid characters, fantastic vocals and incredible costuming and staging!

The show was directed by Timothy Murphy and produced by Michael Dal Cin and Leith Harris.

Directed by: Timothy Murphy

Produced by: Michael Dal Cin & Leith Harris

Choreography: Lizz McIntosh & Amelia Stuetz

Music by: Alan Menken

Lyrics by: Howard Ashman & Glenn Slater

Book by: Doug Wright

Running Time: 71 minutes

Date:17 December 2025 .

S3.E14: TERMINOLOGY

Communication through words is only as effective as the understanding of those words. The vocabulary used by Maria, with Fidgal, is not typically the language you’d expect to hear in a conventional conversation. As the concepts are unique, so too is the terminology employed by those in the spirit world, the in-between world and the learning world. Do we require a new dictionary for an old meaning?

THE NEW NORMAL PODCAST – Maria Iuliano with 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

“My words are powerful and I only say positive statements to myself.”

Date:16 December 2025 .

Host Lisa Tucker has author and column writer Ruth Fletcher on the show.

Ruth Fletcher is a district correspondent for The Sault Star. She’s the author of The Puckasaw Diaries.

“When young brothers Gordon and Lee Fletcher left Liverpool, England in the aftermath of World War I, they began a life with their mother Bel and soldier stepfather Jack Mills in a strange new place called the Puckasaw Depot. Little did they know that this isolated shoreline on Lake Superior would be their home for 14 years and would live in their hearts forever.
Gord’s daughter, Ruth, tells their story with humour, insight and passion for the beauty and power inherent in this remote stretch of Lake Superior shoreline.” (from the back cover of The Puckasaw Diaries)

Visit: thepuckasawdiaries.blogspot.com/

Date:16 December 2025 .

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

s3.e5. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – Connecting Canals & Bridges

Ideas that build cities require connections that build relationships. Canals and bridges are essential means that bring the peoples and stewards of the Great Lakes region together.

Lee Murdoch, Great Lakes folk singer/songwriter, with a history lesson on the Thomas S. Allen song, ‘Low Bridge, Everybody Down/Erie Canal Song.’
John Hartig, Chair of the Great Lakes Way Advisory Committee, promotes the Gordie Howe International Bridge, built on Anishinaabe Territory and joining the U.S. with Canada.
Songwriting brothers Matthew and Nathan Corrigan form the band, Tough Old Bird, and ruminate on The Old Great Lakes in their melancholic musical style.

Featured Music: Lee Murdoch. Great Lakes Myth Society. James Gordon. Elliott Brood. Tough Old Bird.
Music beds: Kevin Closs
Audio Clip: John F. Kennedy remarks courtesy Michigan DOT
Audio Clip: Life Of A Legend: Reflections on Gordie Howe courtesy Sportsnet YouTube

Painting: ‘Sault Ste. Marie Waterfront’ by Amy Williams

s3.e6. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour Music Credits

Title – Big Five Water
Artist – Ray Bonneville

Title – Across The Bridge
Album – Great Lakes Myth Society
Artist/ Composer – Great Lakes Myth Society

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

Title – The Sault Ste. Marie Canal (St. Mary’s)
Album – The Song The River Sings
Artist / Composer – James Gordon

Title – Low Bridge Everybody Down
Artist – Billy Murray
Composer – Thomas S. Allen

Title – Low Bridge Everybody Down/Erie Canal Song
Album – Cold Winds
Artist – Lee Murdoch
Composer – Thomas S. Allen

Title – Great Lakes
Artist – Elpten92
Composer – Traditional

Title – JP’s Guitar
Album – Sans Voix
Artist /Composer – Kevin Closs

Title – 20 Bucks There, 20 Bucks Back
Album – Sans Voix
Artist /Composer – Kevin Closs

Title – For The Love Of A Lake
Album – A Longing For Innocence
Artist / Composer – Ian Tamblyn

Title – The Bridge
Album – Ambassador
Artist / Composer – Elliott Brood

Title – Harbor Song
Album – The Old Great Lakes
Artist – Tough Old Bird
Composers – Matthew & Nathan Corrigan

Title – The Old Great Lakes
Album – The Old Great Lakes
Artist – Tough Old Bird
Composers – Matthew & Nathan Corrigan

Title – Lake Erie Come Home
Album – The Old Great Lakes
Artist – Tough Old Bird
Composers – Matthew & Nathan Corrigan

Title – Song For The Lighthouse Keeper
Album – The Old Great Lakes
Artist – Tough Old Bird
Composers – Matthew & Nathan Corrigan

Title – Seven Lights
Album – The Old Great Lakes
Artist – Tough Old Bird
Composers – Matthew & Nathan Corrigan

Visit: raybonneville.com

Visit: rustyandmaja.com

Visit: jamesgordon.ca

Visit: leemurdock.com

Visit: gordiehoweinternationalbridge.com

Visit: kevincloss.com

Visit: elliottbrood.com

Visit: tougholdbirdmusic.com

Visit: artbyamywilliams.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:15 December 2025 .

S3.E13: FENG SHUI

As people we look for harmony and balance in our lives but are often unaware that our immediate surroundings have a profound impact on our thinking. In that pursuit there is an ancient Chinese philosophy that has lasted the test of time. Maria, with Fidgal and Arlenta, offer up a primer on the art of feng shui. But are we prepared to do some serious house cleaning?

THE NEW NORMAL PODCAST – Maria Iuliano with 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

“The energy always flows in my environment.”

Date:9 December 2025 .

Host Lisa Tucker has author, naturalist, songwriter and musician Jeffrey Riordan Hinich on the show.

Jeff Hinich is a Henry David Thoreau enthusiast who has participated in the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering for many years. Jeff has written “Waking With Thoreau – Lungs of the Planet and Other Possibilities” where he explores the life and works of the author of “Walden or Life in the Woods” which was first published in 1854. Thoreau was much more than an author. He was a surveyor, pencil maker, abolitionist, naturalist, and transcendentalist who was an early proponent of environmentalism.

Jeff says, “My home for the past forty years has been a contemporary Walden, a Northern Ontario lake, touched by a railway on one shore, somewhat remote from the nearest community. As the morning light illuminates these Algoma highlands, I begin to write and work, gathering inspiration and metaphor from the moods of this landscape.”

Jeff lives in beautiful Searchmont, Ontario.

Visit: www.wakingwiththoreau.com/

Date:9 December 2025 .

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

s3.e4. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour – … And Water For All

Safe drinking water is a common right of humanity, as part and parcel of a healthy environment. Champions for the Great Lakes are in an existential battle to protect the land… and water for all.

Joanne Robertson, Misko Anungo Kwe (Red Star Woman), is an Anishinaabe author, illustrator, and water protection activist, and she champions the late Josephine Mandamin.
Ian Tamblyn, singer-songwriter, record producer, adventurer and playwright, has always kept a front seat on environmental issues.
Dianne Whelan travels the slow way of the turtle, seeking wisdom from those that live close to the land, in her documentary ‘500 Days In The Wild’.

Featured music: Akwesasne Women Singers. Don Ross. Ian Tamblyn.
Music beds: Rusty McCarthy. Don Ross.
Theme: Ray Bonneville.
Illustration ‘The Water Walker’ by Joanne Robertson

s3.e1. GREAT LAKES ODYSSEY Radio Hour Music Credits

Title – Big Five Water
Artist – Ray Bonneville

Title – Water
Album – Water
Artist/ Composer – Don Ross

Title – Seabright
Album – Water
Artist / Composer – Don Ross

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

Title – Women’s Power Song
Artist – Akwesasne Women Singers
Composer – Traditional

Title – Caravan
Artist / Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – The Evening Train
Artist / Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – 1000 Islands
Album – Nocturnes
Artist / Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – Safe Harbour
Album – Nocturnes
Artist / Composer – Rusty McCarthy

Title – For The Love Of A Lake
Album – A Longing For Innocence
Artist / Composer – Ian Tamblyn

Title – Woodsmoke and Oranges
Album – Through The Years
Artist / Composer – Ian Tamblyn

Title – Heading South
Album – Over My Head
Artist / Composer – Ian Tamblyn

Title – Campfire Light
Album – Over My Head
Artist / Composer – Ian Tamblyn

Title – Water
Album – Water
Artist / Composer – Don Ross

Title – Mesmerized
Album – Water
Artist / Composer – Don Ross

Title – The World Didn’t Change (After All)
Album – Water
Artist / Composer – Don Ross

Title – Three Views Of A Secret
Album – Water
Artist / Composer – Don Ross

Title – Three Views Of A Secret
Album – Water
Artist / Composer – Don Ross

Title – As Eddie Leaves The Building
Album – Water
Artist / Composer – Don Ross

Title – Obrigado (Egberto)
Album – Water
Artist / Composer – Don Ross

Visit: raybonneville.com

Visit: rustyandmaja.com

Visit: facebook.com/JoanneRobertsonStudio

Visit: earth.google.com/web/data

Visit: iantamblyn.com

Visit: diannewhelan.com

Visit: donrossonline.com

Visit: greatlakesgreatread.org/the-water-walker-joanne-robertson

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:7 December 2025 .

Marvin Joncas has a natural feel for entertaining while creating his artwork. Marvelous Marvin has dazzled audiences with his magic show for years and he has parlayed that experience into canvas magic. A professed fan and follower of the legendary television personality, Bob Ross, artist and painter, Marvin has an infectious, joyful spirit that finds its way into his paintings. Marvin has plans to deeper explore his painting talents into Visions of Nature, inspired by having enjoyed a successful debut art exhibition at the ART HUB At Spring in the summer of 2025. What the future holds for the art of Marvin Joncas is a work in progress.

Date:3 December 2025 .

S3.E11: NUMEROLOGY

Numbers are more than just numbers, they are a language that speaks in all languages. The relationship between numbers, letters, and patterns is, and always has been, a fascinating study. Maria, with Fidgal and Arlenta, are joined by their guest, Daniel Huckson, to share basic principles of numerology. If you add it up, what our life path may be asking of us is to do the math. Why not learn the ABC’s of arithmetic?

THE NEW NORMAL PODCAST – Maria Iuliano with 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

“I see and appreciate numbers around me.”

Date:2 December 2025 .

Alex Wood is a comedian, writer, and podcaster who has been featured on NBC’s Today Show, Kevin Hart’s LOL, Vice, and Sirius XM Radio. His podcast How Alex Wood Quit Everything takes listeners on a journey through his addiction and subsequent recovery.

Float Like A Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea is his first book. He lives in Toronto, with roots in Sault Ste. Marie.

Visit: arsenalpulp.com/Contributors/W/Wood-Alex

Visit: alexwoodquitseverything.libsyn.com/

“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”

Date:2 December 2025 .