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feature today » journalism http://dho.ca/wp a blog about culture, community and journalism Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:54:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Interview with photographers at the World Trade Centre on 9/11 http://dho.ca/wp/2011/09/07/interview-with-photographers-at-the-world-trade-centre-on-911/ http://dho.ca/wp/2011/09/07/interview-with-photographers-at-the-world-trade-centre-on-911/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:26:45 +0000 Dan Ho http://dho.ca/wp/?p=4479

Screen shot from the video interviews with photojournalists at the World Trade Centre, 9/11.

Listening to the voices of the journalists while viewing their photos, makes this recount of 9/11 a very moving experience.

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Shelly Dugas waved her light as Emmylou Harris performed.

The Christie Lake Conservation Area hosted 5,000 people for the first ever Greenbelt Harvest Festival. The event featured a fun, relaxed atmosphere, healthy food variety and promoted local farming.

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Thomas Giovinazzo raises his hand in victory.

Three soccer teams score a common goal: raise team spirits.

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Setsuko Thurlow reacts as she talked about her encounter with the atomic bomb

She didn't look a day over 60 and it was 66 years ago that the most fearsome of man made weapons was unleashed upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Rockstar! - Christy Luo and the PowerUnit Rockband perform their rendition of "Friday".

Enjoying the Asian night market, aka Night It Up, at the Markham Civic Centre.

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Kate Holton cheers on Sarah Rasmussen. Rasmussen used to babysit Holton.

Seventy eight brave women attempted eight laps up the steep and winding path to Rattlesnake Point in Milton, Ontario at the Canadian National Road Cycling championships.

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Vancouver Canucks fans riot after Boston downs them 4-0 at the Stanley Cup Finals.

"Hot" dogs, eating crap and the mother of all cupcakes are some of the news bits for this week.

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Ethan McBrayne and Callum Williams light luminaries that spell "believe".

The Kids on a Mission collected $11,000 of the approximately $60,000 raised for the event.

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Larry Baker poses in a sailboat at the Stupple garage sale.

People around Flamborough hold garage sales for different reasons. Some try to downsize and get rid of unused items, others to raise funds for various causes.

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France Carbonneau demonstrates weaving techniques.

It was interesting to meet different artists from different walks of life and discover the profound impact their art has on their lives.

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Jacob Pokocky and his Oakville A's baseball team will make the TELUS Walk to end Diabetes.

Jacob Pokocky. AAA Rep Hockey player. AAA Rep Baseball player. This 10-year-old also suffers from Type 1 diabetes.

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Participants walk around the luminary lit path during the 10th annual Oakville Relay for Life at Appleby College.

Santas, fairies, gladiators were amongst the 1,000 people who walked through the night raising $400,000 to bring hope to the cancer community on the Oakville Relay for Life's 10th anniversary.

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Storm over the farmland in the Millgrove area.

There is no beauty in anger but in nature's wrath. Aesthetic beauty anyhow.

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Moss lies by the feet of Dan Ashworth.

This weekend, I shot three dog walks as part of the schedule: Oakville and Flamborough's Purina walk for Dog Guides and Burlington Humane Society's Pooch Promenade.

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Relay for Life, 2008

Want to join a team for the Oakville Relay for Life?

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