Christmas Shopping With A Cause
One of the Jewel 106.7 FM listening area’s s most valuable resource centers is giving you a head start on your Christmas shopping this weekend. The West Island Cancer Wellness Center’s first annual...
View ArticlePanto Time At HVT
Hudson Village Theatre’s annual Christmas Pantomime is looming large. This year’s Panto is Camelot, directed by Steve Walters, who dropped by the Jewel 106.7 FM this morning, arrived early, left to get...
View ArticleWhalen and Whelan
The Hudson Film Society is offering a unique opportunity to see a couple of critically-acclaimed movies in an intimate and historic setting. “Frantz” – a French/German film about the so-called “lost...
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Rock & Roll To Help Tackle A West Island Problem Hidden In Plain Sight
Three local bands are coming together this Friday night at a legendary West Island watering hole to raise money for AJOI (Action Jeunesse de l’Ouest de l’Ile). AJOI is a non-profit resource...
View ArticleA Very Porky Xmas
Once again this year, we honour longstanding morning show tradition by trotting out the Porky Pig version of Blue Christmas for the yuletide season. For the life of me, I can’t determine the original...
View ArticleNew(ish) Takes on Old Xmas Favorites
Everybody has a favorite Christmas song (well, maybe not everybody; Osama bin Laden, for example, strikes me as one who would not have delighted in yuletide melodies, but I digress). After the obvious...
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Rhonda Massad Joins The Jewel
We kicked off a new feature on the morning show today – one we hope will help us fulfill our mandate to not only entertain but serve the Jewel 106.7 FM listening audience. “The More You Know” is a...
View ArticleRevisionist History On YouTube
With the help of some like-minded internet collaborators, I’ve added a visual element to the Revisionist History segment heard weekday mornings at 7:15 on The Jewel. Our Revisionist History YouTube...
View Article3 French Hens? 3 French Horns? 3 French Toast?
Tom Whelan and I are celebrating the festive season by giving away 12 daily prizes for listeners who can identify the gift(s) from the each specific day in the time-honored carol “The Twelve Days of...
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The More You Know – ABOVAS: A West Island Godsend
This week on The More You Know, West Island Blog founder and community activist Rhonda Massad tells us about ABOVAS – a West Island volunteer organization that offers indispensable transportation and...
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Delices, Indeed
Thanks to Razmig Malkhassian from Delices de Bruxelles at 289 Harwood in Vaudreuil for coming by the studio this morning with some freshly-baked goods for the perpetually hungry morning show. Delices...
View ArticleTHANK YOU!
The (hopefully) first annual Jewel 106.7 FM radiothon to benefit the Lakeshore General Hospital Foundation was an unqualified success – according to the Foundation itself! LGHF managing director...
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Ending The Mental Health Stigma – For Patients AND Their Families
This morning on The More You Know with West Island Blog founder Rhonda Massad, we talked about a local support group that reaches out to families of people suffering from mental health challenges....
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Help For Women And Children In Crisis
On the inaugural 2018 edition of The More You Know, West Island Blog founder Rhonda Massad tackled the uncomfortable but very real problem of conjugal violence in our community. Fortunately,...
View ArticleHudson Comedy Brouhaha
If it’s January, it must be the countdown to St. Patrick’s Day. This year, the green season kicks off with the inaugural Hudson Brouhaha comedy festival at the Hudson Village Theatre January 26th and...
View Article“Watch The Birdie!” (And Other Badminton Puns)
The Hudson Badminton Club is holding an open house Wednesday, January 10 from 7:30-10pm at Westwood Senior High School, 69 Cote St. Charles in Hudson. Bring court shoes or sneakers; the club will...
View ArticleLocked And Loaded (Well, Loaded Anyway) For The Jewel Men’s Getaway Weekend
Every year, the Jewel radio network hosts a getaway weekend exclusively for female staff and listeners at the spectacular Fairmont Chateau Montebello. Being champions of gender equality, Tom Whelan and...
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NOVA Hudson Expands
The best deals in town are still the best deals in town, and now there are more of them! NOVA Hudson has opened a second facility – Maison NOVA, featuring a bridal boutique and home furnishings and...
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Men In Skirts
High fashion has been flirting with men’s skirts for several years, and the flirtation continues for the fall 2018 season. The spiffy numbers pictured above were on the runway in London recently, while...
View ArticleThe Tide Pod Challenge: Don’t Take It
It’s hard to believe this is actually a thing, but in the age of viral YouTube videos nothing comes as a complete surprise. Health authorities are warning against the Tide Pod Challenge – a trend among...
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