I had the great pleasure of meeting with Lynn Varughese over coffee last week. Lynn had nominated her late husband Tom for the Cold Lake Hall of Fame. Tom will be inducted into the Hall January 13, along with landscape artist René Richard. Tom is nominated in the Builder category. He could as easily have […]
The City of Cold Lake will induct two new members to its Hall of Fame on January 13. Tom Varughese (1950 – 2017), whose love of soccer inspired players, coaches, and children for years, will be inducted in the Builder category. Besides his passion for the sport, Varughese was a beloved educator. René Richard (1895 […]
It’s hard to imagine that the young son of a Swiss watchmaker (in fact, a descendant of the founder of the Swiss watchmaking industry) would move with his family to Cold Lake, learn the ways of the bush, work as a trapper, gain a formal education as a painter, return to the bush, move to […]