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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦

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Former journalist, now VP, Communications and Marketing at Parachute, Canada's national charity dedicated to injury prevention. Stratford resident. I ❤️ theatre, galleries, gardens, hiking trails, kitchens, libraries, walkable cities. Blog: kelleyteahen.ca

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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Home after travelling and now thinking about the winter ahead. That plastic bag is part of my #ElbowsUp no 🇺🇸 supply plan. Last winter, did without 🍋 lemons for 3 months: only U.S. in stores. South African lemons now $2.89 for 2 lbs. I am juicing them and freeing in cube trays. Zest too.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s At Home might interest you…
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Beth @kleptokoala.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What an earworm!!
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 31/08/2026
MapQuest Monday Morning Meeting:
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Ontario govt took $60M out of public education and handed it to Staples. Tomorrow, 80K elementary teachers each get $750 of the misappropriated money to buy overpriced classroom supplies at an 🇺🇸 corporation. Please remember this the next time Captain Canada tells you to #BuyCanadian. #OntEd
A chart of school supplies showing the price difference between ordering through the school board or ordering from Staples. Staples is always more expensive.A chart of school supplies showing the price difference between ordering through the school board or ordering from Staples.

The total for the school board is $290.38.
The total for Staples is $668.98.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My see-live 🇨🇦 10, first 10 I think of: Bruce Cockburn Teenage Head kd lang Blue Rodeo The Nylons Don Ross Jackie Richardson Be Good Tanyas Carole Pope Barenaked Ladies
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Another #Stratford Saturday in the #BuyCanadian #ElbowsUp trenches. Pic 1: Produce & flowers from the Stratford Farmers' Market. Pic 2: The rest of the shop. All items left of the paper towels and Que Pasa taco shells are Canadian. The rest is non-U.S., e.g. South African lemons. Details: alt.text 🇨🇦
Produce, cut flowers and two cartons of eggs laid out on a wood-top kitchen island. Produce includes pea shoots, green onion, bag of leafy greens, bag of spinach, two red peppers, two red onion, six plums, six peaches, bag of red potatoes (still coveredin dirt), mixed bag of yellow and green beans, bowl of jalẽpeno peppers, four cobs of corn, a green cabbage, several mini zucchini and paddy pan squash, and two bunches of glads, one bunch of sunflowers, and two tied bouquets, one in orange tones and one in whites and pale mauve.Groceries laid out on a wood-topped kitchen island. The following items are Canadian: smoked salmon, 10% cream, glass 2L 2% milk, two pounds butter, two containers cream cheese (there was a sale), two bags of mussels, package of smoked salmon, bag of cremini mushrooms, package of Shitaake mushrooms, bag of bean sprouts, Que Paso corn taco shells, Bonterra paper towels, Hardbite avocado & lime chips, package of ground brown flax, jar of sunflower seeds, package of Planet Bean coffee beans (from Guelph, ONtario), two packs of Partake "near beer." On the right side of the island top are non-Canadian and also non-U.S. items; mesh bag of lemons, rice noodles, olives, pepitas, shrimp, and Fever Tree Tonic Water + Fever Tree Ginger Beer.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Next in #TeahenTales: A pool for one season. This outdoor pool, 94 years old in 2026, began as a civic project of the Lions Service Club and remains a centre of #Stratford summer memories.
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A pool for one season
This outdoor pool, 94 years old in 2026, began as a civic project of the Lions Service Club and remains a centre of Stratford summer memories.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A note for those in #Stratford Ontario where a new one of the U.S. stores has just opened. There are three (maybe more?) Dollaramas here already.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Make that Eleven. #BloodDonor 🇨🇦🩸🅾️
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A marvellous evening in the theatre. This and the enchanting Midsummer’s Night Dream have been the highlights so far of the shows I have seen in the @stratfest.bsky.social 2026 season. #Stratford
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
After a Sunday of heavy rain, thunder and lightning, the storm has passed and #RubyTheBichon naps in the sunshine with the mauve Rose of Sharon putting on its late summer show outside the window. #DogsOfBluesky #Stratford
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Menus include turkey burgers, corn, bean salad; Ricotta & Feta Shells w salad & foccacia; Seared Tuna Persillade w kale salad; Chicken Chasseur w rice & green beans; Garden Swiss chard, mushrooms & Boursin galette w tabbouleh. One night at a 🇲🇽 cooking class. Easier to cook 🇨🇦 during summer harvest!
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
And here's the packaged kale salad ingredients: bought a Canadian-made poppyseed dressing for my in-laws, and will pull out the food processor to finely chop green cabbage, broccoli, kale, Brussels sprouts, radicchio. Also, small bag of pumpkin seeds and dried cranberries sourced at 🇨🇦 Bulk Barn.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#ElbowsUp! by #BuyCanadian. I also shop for my in-laws: to satisfy their craving for packaged kale salad, took a pic of the Taylor's (EEK!) mix ingredient label and will make a version with local produce for them. Made peach jam & dill pickles last week. Tomatoes from our garden. Details in alt.text
Groceries laid out on a wood-topped kitchen island. At bottom left: a bowl of garden cherry tomatoes, seven jars of homemade peach jam, vase of garden basil, five garden tomatoes, and a jar of chopped local garlic in oil, a gift from a neigihbour. Behind these at left are other Canadian items: farmers' market cantaloupe, purple plums, blueberry peaches; Nova Scotia Fisherman hand lotion; two cans crushed tomatoes; two Buffalo mozzarella, tub of ricotta cheese, pound of unsalted butter and Miller's Dairy milk in 2L glass bottle; breadcrumbs and foccaccia from Stratford's Downie Street Bakery; Canadian chicken thighs, tuna, sliced chicken and local summer sausage; Barilla pasta shells and Que Pasa salsa; Partake no-alcohol beer; two packages of mushrooms, a green cabbage, bag of green beans, Italian parsley, bag of salad greens, two cobs of corn, small bag of Brussels sprouts (for replicating the bagged kale salad mix - kale is actually the third ingredient after cabbage and broccoli); Carna4 dog food and some Canadian-made doggy poo bags; sample of Canadian wines - Burnt Ship Sauvignon Blanc and Speck Brothers Chardonnay (our favourites in those varietals). The only non-Canadian items are an avocado, four bananas, a plastic tub of pitted kalamata olives, Boursin cheese and some Cashel blue cheese from Ireland, on sale.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
First year for my dinner-plate #hibiscus to bloom. There will be another bush in this garden's future, for certain. What a great late-August show. #gardening #flowers
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Dinner plate hibiscus 🌺 My first one in the garden and there will be more someday soon.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Yes, to sleep the sleep of a fuzzy dog ...
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My micro-break Strands game got pretty colourful today.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Our latest #VisionZero awareness campaign promoting our #SnapForChange initiative @parachute.ca . #ParachuteVZ
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Canning season hath begun. (Or as my husband says, you use JARS! Why isn't it jarring instead of canning?) #Peach #jam #Dill #Pickles #Preserves
Two small glass jars of peach jam with a label on each saying Peachy! 2026 and two taller glass jars filled with sliced cucumbers that will become dill pickles after marinating in the pickling juice. In the far background is a red vase with red gladioli flowers in it.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Another stressful Saturday afternoon for #BichonRuby #DogsOfBluesky
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The latest post from #TeahenTales: Fried-food memories of those who grew up in #Stratford Ontario.
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Fried food memories
For 73 years and counting, Stratford has been quenching its fried-food thirst with Ken's Fries.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Walked through the @stratfest.bsky.social garden this morning with my dog, who was on "sniffari" and stopping frequently. While I was standing with her, we got a visitor. #Monarch #butterfly.
Monarch butterfly balancing on a plant stem, with flowerbed in the background.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Many, many more of these in Ontario than listed in the "ultimate guide". Here in #Stratford we have Montforte Dairy: monforteonline.ca
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It's been awhile since I posted my #BuyCanadian shop. Given latest "negotiation" news, time to get back into sharing and reminding everyone: Support our countrypeople's businesses. Support our allies. Featured today: Montforte Dairy Cheese, Stratford; Black Creek Flower Farm glads. Rest in altext. 🇨🇦
A weekly grocery shop spread out on a wood-topped kitchen island. From bottom left corner: Two large tomatoes, a bowl of cherry tomatoes, and dill from our garden. Next, Canadian produce from local markets: Bunch of green onions, three sweet peppers, four cobs of corn, bag of green beans, peaches (four in picture but bought a basket); three heads of garlic, six small cucumbers (bought a big basket of these: homemade dill pickles ahead to use up a bonanza of garden dill); two packages shiitake mushrooms. Canadian meats, poultry and fish: Hayter's ground turkey; Wild Hog chorizo sausages; Atlantic salmon fillets; package of Canadian chicken thighs; pack of Lake Erie yellow perch; two cheese wedges from Stratford's Montforte Dairy. Other Canadian groceries and household supplies: Kozlik's mustard; Hellman's mayonnaise; Primo tomato paste; Miller Dairy 2% milk; Bontera paper towels; Cashmere toilet paper; white vinegar; bag of sugar (for the peach jam); two bags of chips; whole wheat burger buns from Azores Bakery, Cambridge; and flowers from the Stratford Farmers' market. Two boxes of Catelli whole wheat spaghettini are lined up at the side of the Canadian products; to their left are non-Canadian, non-U.S. groceries: bananas; Argentinian shrimp; canned tuna; olive oil; fish sauce; lemon; avocado; arborio rice; four bottles of Fever Tree tonic water. Do not know provenance of Bulgur wheat and sea salt bought at Bulk Barn (at least a Canadian owned store).
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Our Ruby is a retired Canadian Kennel Club breed mama. I didn't know the classic two-pawed Bichon wave survives from their circus performer days!
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I'm with you, sister: kelleyteahen.ca/2026/06/11/e...
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Earning my Cheetos
Over a year, 400,000 residents of Canada give blood. Only two per cent of people in Canada eligible to donate do so.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Before and after photos of #RubyTheBichon, pre- and post-grooming. #BichonFrise #DogsOfBluesky.
At left, overgrown Bishon Frisé dog sleeps on her back on a red couch; at right, the same Bichon Frisé trimmed closely after grooming, lying on a patterned carpet with her paws straight out front and head lifted looking at the camera.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Our #Bichon does this too, most often when we are out and my husband has her on her leash, and then I return to where they are. This blurry-action pic is from an outdoor concert we attended recently.
Bichon Frisé dog stands on her hind legs and waves her front paws up-and-down (the paws are blurred in the picture). She is outside on grass, standing beside two men - you can only see the legs and feet of the men, who are sitting in camp chairs. The Bichon wears a red harness.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Next in the #StratfordLikeALocal series: The Bands Play On during the free summer Concerts in the Park series, which has been running for four decades at the Kiwanis bandshell in Upper Queens Park. #music #Stratford
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The bands play on
For nearly 40 years, twice a week during the summer, Stratford locals have gathered in Upper Queens Park to hear a band play.
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Jennifer @jennyanydots00.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Slings & Arrows fans take note! "Preview a new script in development by the celebrated creators of Slings & Arrows! Susan Coyne, Bob Martin, and Mark McKinney will lead a cast of Festival company members in a one-night-only reading of a new work." www.stratfordfestival.ca/WhatsOn/Play...
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The Amateurs | Stratford Festival Official Website
Stratford Festival
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Just a note for those googling that it's Pazzo Pizza and its sister restaurant, Café Bouffon: www.pazzo.ca
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Pazzo & Café Bouffon | Home Pizza Pasta Late Night
Thin crust pizza pasta Late night
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Parachute Canada @parachute.ca · 06/07/2026
We're marking the 10th anniversary of #CIPD2026 with a weekly interview series featuring nine Canadian women leading injury prevention. First up: our President & CEO Pamela Fuselli: parachute.ca/en/celebrating-canadia… #CANInjuryPreventionDay
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Parachute Canada @parachute.ca · 06/07/2026
Tour CN Tower will light up in “Parachute green” tonight for Canadian Injury Prevention Day. We can prevent serious injuries and deaths from injuries! #CANInjuryPreventionDay ##CIPD2026 For the full list of landmarks go to parachute.ca/lightupcanada
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Parachute Canada @parachute.ca · 06/07/2026
It's #CIPD2026! The Public Health Agency of Canada's Canadian Mortality Clock shows unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for children ages 1–14. Join us in raising awareness and helping prevent these tragic, preventable deaths. parachute.ca/cipd #TurnSafetyOn
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Parachute Canada @parachute.ca · 06/07/2026
Falls and transport incidents had the highest total costs of any injury cause in 2018 at $13.8 billion, making up almost half of the cost of injury. Learn more at parachute.ca/cipd #CANInjuryPreventionDay #CIPD2026
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Parachute Canada @parachute.ca · 06/07/2026
Injury costs $29.4 billion and more than 17,000 lives a year. We have the potential to change the story. Learn more: parachute.ca/cipd #CANInjuryPreventionDay #CIPD2026
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Mid-way through the #StratfordLikeALocal series on #TeahenTales: The bridge ... to everywhere.
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The bridge … to everywhere
The teenagers flitted to the spot where many classes of youth before them had gone on this day: To the Bridge to Nowhere.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Presenting at #CARSP2026 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. My topic: Why do you speed, and how can we persuade you not to? Part of a larger plenary panel on speed management in Canada with speakers on police enforcement, new tech to control speed in-car, & studies about ASE (it works). #ParachuteVZ
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A #Teahen ale for National Blood Donor Week: Earning my Cheetos.
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Earning my Cheetos
Over a year, 400,000 residents of Canada give blood. Only two per cent of people in Canada eligible to donate do so.
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Parachute Canada @parachute.ca · 04/06/2026
Even small reductions in speed can be significant in preventing crashes and reducing the severity of injuries. For each 1.6 km/h reduction in average speed, collisions are reduced by 5%. Learn more at parachute.ca/safekidsweek #SafeSpeedsForKids #SKW2026
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Parachute Canada @parachute.ca · 04/06/2026
Speed cameras work. Automated speed enforcement can reduce speeding in school zones by up to 45%. Slower traffic helps create safer streets for children and families. Learn more: #SafeSpeedsForKids #SKW2026 parachute.ca/safekidsweek
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
No. 12 in the #TeahenTales series, #StratfordLikeALocal: A blooming good time - all about gardening in a gardening-mad city.
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A blooming good time
Since its early days, Stratford has been a garden-mad city, creating beauty amid sometimes less-than-ideal conditions.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
No. 11 in the #TeahenTales series, #StratfordLikeALocal - welcome to the Old Grove, aka the T.J. Dolan Natural Area, home to the southwest portion of the Stratford Side Trail.
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Groovin’ in the Grove
The Stratford Side Trail of the Avon Trail goes through an in-city forested natural area that used to be called The Old Grove.
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We are in for a 31-degree (Celsius) mood swing over the next couple days in #Stratford Ontario
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
And Asta!!! 🐾
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
No. 10 in the #TeahenTales series, Stratford like a local: The paths amid the dead, about the city's old and huge cemetery.
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The paths amid the dead
The Avondale Cemetery covers around 68 acres, with more than 33,200 internments: that's more than the current official living population of Stratford.
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Parachute Canada @parachute.ca · 04/05/2026
The Caregivers’ #GuidetoFallPrevention is now available in downloadable PDF and audio formats. It offers simple, practical tips to help caregivers understand, prevent & manage falls. Read/listen: parachute.ca/en/injury-topic/fall-p…
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Kelley Teahen 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @kteahen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
No. 9 in the #TeahenTales series, #StratfordLikeALocal: Shall we gather by the river - the Avon River, that is. #Stratford #swan #willow
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Shall we gather by the river
It can be easy to take the picturesque, park-lined Avon River for granted. As my father-in-law says, "when I grew up here, I thought every town looked like this."
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