I'm not generally a fan of network TV. Mostly because I have a kryptonite strength hate on for the reality television that tends to fill the air these days. However on this occasion, I raise a glass to Global for bankrolling, as well as promoting the heck out of "Bomb Girls," a terrific new dramatic Canadian mini-series about a group of women working at a munitions factory during WWII.

I have the extreme good fortune to live just outside of Ayr, a small farming town in southwestern Ontario, near Kitchener. We've got a dam with waters inhabited by a pair of cantankerous swans that consistently elude capture every winter, a busy vet who must have 10 stray cats, and now a new hockey arena that everyone's got an opinion on.

It's a similar scenario to many small Canadian towns. But the one thing we have, that many other North American communities don't, is Jill Yuzwa -- a one woman arts and culture machine who has made it her mission to ensure that the people of Ayr are exposed to the arts and that Ayr is exposed to the world.