Lea is our arts and entertainment feature writer.  An active member of the arts community for over thirty years, she is the author of two books and three recordings.  She has been the recipient of various prizes for her poetry and a Juno nomination for her music.

   Apart from performing, Lea is a workshop facilitator and guitar teacher.  She has composed music for documentaries and dance theatre.  For a time, she wrote editorials for Billboard Magazine, NY and The Music Scene in Toronto. 

  Her work has taken her to Los Angeles, Jamaica and South America.  Her songs have received airplay as far a field as Taiwan and South Africa but Lea's heart has always been in the Haliburton Highlands.  As a child, her summers were spent on Kennisis Lake.  Six years ago, her partner and their two children settled here permanently. 

  Lea believes we live in a rich and diverse creative community and hopes that as board member of the Haliburton Arts Council and writer for the Communicator, she can help promote the arts and give voice to the emerging as well as established artists in our County.

   Stephen Patrick is a former television producer and public affairs journalist who has made his permanent home in Haliburton since 1985. His family has had a cottage on Koshlong Lake since the 1940s, and their County roots go back to the 1800s.

   In the 1980s Stephen and his wife Holly Hutchison owned and operated Patrick Books, a general and literary bookstore on Highland Street. In 1992 it was sold and became Under Cover. Since then he's worked extensively in the resort industry, notably at the Domain of Killien, and as a freelance journalist, editor, and writer.

   As a television producer and writer, Stephen worked for many years for the CBC. He started as a researcher/writer on This Hour Has Seven Days, and had a wide-ranging news and public affairs career including a stint at CBC Drama with John Hirsch. Stephen co-created the "journalistic drama" programs which eventually became the long-running series For The Record.  For many years, he was executive producer of Current Affairs for TVOntario.

   George Farrell is an active member of his community.  In addition to sitting on the CED committee of the Haliburton County Development Corporation for six years, George is also a founding member, and director of the Highlands Media Arts organization.

   He started his career as a magazine editorial writer, and fashion photographer in Toronto. Later he became a property master and set dresser on feature films, series television and commercials. From there he moved to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation where he was a writer and producer of a weekly documentary television show, which aired nationally, and ran for five years

   George has won several awards for his documentaries, among them The Columbus International Film Festival Award and the Canadian Association for Community Living Media Award for 'Fight for the Right, the Becky Till Story'. 'Transportation Access For All'  won George another award from the Columbus Festival as well as the B'nai B'rith of Canada Media Award.

   George moved permanently into the Highlands in 1991.  In the years since, he has been instrumental in supporting and promoting the Haliburton Highlands in whole and in part, through the use of digital media, particularly video. George has produced videos for organizations such as the County of Haliburton, Save the Frost Centre, The Stanhope Museum, The Haliburton Highlands Health Services, The Arts Council, and the  Doctors Recruitment Committee.

   He produced and distributed the county's first ever video 'Haliburton Highlands, A Natural Work of Art', which was aired nationally via the CHEX TV network of stations.  Dvd copies of the video are available in retail outlets throughout the Highlands.

   George has also been active in writing the scripts for all his videos, as well as contributing articles and images to the Highlands Communicator and other media.

   George  is presently a member of the Agnes Jamieson Gallery, the Haliburton County Community Co-operative, the Highlands Media Arts group, and the Minden Merchants Revitalization Committee.

   Lynne Kilby is the Kinmount "What's Happening" reporter - as well, she writes feature stories that pertain to Kinmount. 

Lynne Kilby heralds from a long line of book lovers, is a children's reading tutor, school bus driver and girl guide leader, who lives on the edge of the gateway to Haliburton Highlands in the hamlet of Kinmount.  Lynne's column and features in the Communicator focus on events and activities taking place in and around Kinmount.  Born in London, England, Lynne moved from Toronto to Kinmount in 1986 and along with life partner Paul Silver, raised 4 children.  Lynne has been an active community member ever since her arrival in Kinmount.  Although Lynne loves living in Kinmount, her heart belongs to Haliburton Lake, where her grandparents owned a cottage as she was growing up.  Whenever she gets the chance, she returns frequently to her favourite place in the world to suck in the "remarkably unchanged beauty that instills in me a calming peacefulness, inspiration and medicine for my soul," says Lynne. 

  Terrance is a published poet, but became interested in sports writing after transferring from Carleton University to the University of Manitoba. He moved to the U of M in the hope of playing basketball for his childhood idol, Canadian Olympian, Martin Riley who was the Head Coach of the Bisons at that time.

  Riley thought Gavan would make a better writer than point guard and Terrance went on to write sports for the school newspaper, The Manitoban, eventually accepting a position as Sports Editor with the Toban. Gavan was also the Toban's designated humor columnist.

   During that time, Gavan covered University Sports (U of M, University of Winnipeg and Brandon University) for the Winnipeg Sun, Canadian Press and United Press Canada in Winnipeg. He also posted Bison Sports Reports for CJOB Radio in Winnipeg, CBC Radio, CBC Television and reported on Bison football for TSN.

   He served as Assistant Sports Information Director while working at the Toban and later accepted a position as the full time Sports Information Director for the 17 Intercollegiate Bison Sports Teams. He also managed to attend just enough classes to earn his Degree in Political Studies from the U of M.

   He left his job as Sports Info Director and moved over to the Interlake Publishing chain of newspapers based in Stonewall, Manitoba. He worked there as a columnist, news reporter, photographer and sports editor for the Stonewall Argus, Interlake Spectator and Selkirk Journal. He returned home to Ottawa when his mother became ill and accepted a job with Runge Press as Managing Editor of the Kanata Kourier and Kanata Standard newspapers. After his mother passed, Terrance left the newspaper business to begin work on a Masters Degree.

   Then he fell into a Rabbit Hole, and moved to Invermere, BC, where he worked for 4 years at Panorama and Fairmont Hot Springs Resorts, teaching skiing and snowboarding winters and managing irrigation at the Fairmont Hot Springs Mountainside Golf Course during the rest of the year.

   He moved to Haliburton in July of 2002, to take a position with Auriga Design here in Haliburton. He teaches Ski and Snowboarding at Sir Sam's Ski Area during the winter.