Kelly Byers, Sales Representative

12/02/2025

ATTENTION City of Woodstock, Ontario residents: 6-day collection cycles start in the new year.

Effective January 2, 2026, Woodstock residents will see their collection day move forward one day each week, skipping weekends and holidays. Watch for a letter in the mail soon listing your new collection zones and dates.

Remember to check out the 2026 Oxford County Waste Collection Schedule to find curbside waste collection maps and dates for all eight of Oxford's area municipalities.

South-West Oxford is already on a 6-day collection schedule. Blandford-Blenheim, East Zorra-Tavistock, Norwich, Ingersoll, Tillsonburg and Zorra will transition to a six-day garbage and green bin waste collection cycle in May 2027.

To download the 2026 collection schedule or for information on upcoming collection changes, visit www.oxfordcounty.ca/new-waste-collection

08/06/2025

Some awesome activities the City of Woodstock has come up with.

04/03/2025

Georgeous family home in north woodstock.

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14 WINDERMERE Crescent House for sale in Woodstock (Woodstock - North), Ontario for $672,850 CAD, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. MLS® #:X12054696.

10/11/2024

This is awesome. And of course it’s Sears!!

From the 1916 Sears Home Catalog. They shipped the entire house to you by railroad car. Sears was like Ikea before Ikea. Friends and family would come from all around to help the owner build it.

From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count.

Sears Modern Homes offered more than 370 designs in a wide range of architectural styles and sizes over the line's 34-year history. Most included the latest comforts and conveniences available to house buyers in the early part of the twentieth century, such as central heating, indoor plumbing, telephone, and electricity.

Primarily shipped via railroad boxcars, these kits included most of the materials needed to build a house. Once delivered, many of these houses were assembled by the new homeowner, relatives, friends and neighbors, in a fashion similar to the traditional barn-raisings of farming families.

Sears discontinued its Modern Homes catalog after 1940, though sales through local sales offices continued into 1942. Years later, the sales records related to home sales were destroyed during a corporate house cleaning. As only a small percentage of these homes were documented when built, finding these houses today often requires detailed research to properly identify them.

07/12/2024

If you don’t follow Kate Leatherbarrow City Councillor •Woodstock•you should! Lots of updates as to what is going on at City Council, and a nice 10-min summary of the meeting,

Stay informed! I often see complaints about council decisions but if you pay attention you’ll see Opportunities to let councillors know your feedback ahead of the meetings.

Mark Schadenbergalso posts a lot of info ahead of meetings on his personal page :)

06/05/2024

It’s been almost a year since I last posted real estate statistics (thanks cancer!); but something I found interesting is that the numbers are almost the same as last year. The average price in May 2023 was 237,000; so the price is down slightly but not significantly. Days on market and inventory remains steady.

These updates come with everyone’s favourite question - when is a good time to buy or sell? My answer always remains - when it’s good for you and your family! The market is relative, and it’s going to go up and down but move when it works for you.

I’d love to hear if you agree or disagree with me :)

05/03/2024

03/14/2024

Hi everyone! Long update today my apologies in advance. Met my doc earlier this week for follow up on the testing that started last week.

1. bone marrow biopsy and aspiration showed blasts of less than 2% which is considered remission. Great news!

2. A lumbar puncture (with chemo) was performed to test my CSF for cancer, which has been the trickiest cancer to fight (hence the last ditch radiation in the fall). This showed a good level of “mature” monocytes and a bunch of specialized cell tests also were good which indicates remission in my CSF as well. However, due to my aggressive disease, they will continue with spinal chemo for 2 months and keep re-testing for cancer at each chemo appt.

3. The chimer test to determine what percentage of cells are donor cells was 98% donor and 2% my original which is exactly what they want (other than 99 or 100 but 98 is the minimum to be successful). So also great news!

They are tapering some of my immune-suppressants so the next concern while they do that is more graft versus host disease (gvhd) but they have to start tapering eventually. Fingers crossed we avoid some of the serious forms of GVHD (liver, lung, heart failure). So far I have a skin rash that is likely GVHD but that’s fairly harmless so it’s not too bad other than I’m itchy.

My energy is returning to more “normal for cancer” levels and not just terrible transplant levels. Stupid things like I’m able to make my bed, do laundry etc without taking a break. I can slowly go up and down stairs which I couldn’t do a few weeks ago. I get at least 2 2.5km walks in each day. I do some VERY light weights (5lbs versus 15/20 prior to cancer) a few times a week. It amazes me how excited my doc is that I listen to him (he wants me doing this stuff) because I guess a lot of people don’t. Friends, listen to your docs!!!

So for now we have great news but remain vigilant! The threat of infection and remission is still very high. We have to be careful to avoid infections like colds, flu, etc. we are so appreciative of how cautious everyone is around me. Thank you!!

I’ve had lots of questions about when my life might return to normal. Unfortunately the short answer is never, but the long answer is - they’ll stop worrying about me as much around the 2 year mark. If I can live for 2 more years, my odds of another 10 or even 20 years is good. I will likely always have some fatigue and side effects from different drugs I need to take but that’s just part of it. I don’t really think I get “used to it” but I accept it.

As always, we feel so loved and supported by everyone around us. Thank you all so much for everything 🙏

02/21/2024

A little life update for all of my amazing friends, clients and followers on this page.

I had a stem cell transplant in Toronto at Princess Margaret Cancer centre January 4, which came after 5 days of “myloablative” (aggressive) chemotherapy and which was then followed by more chemo.

I am now 48 days post-transplant and recovering at home with my care back in London. My transplant team is fabulous and they work very closely with a few specialists I require to coordinate the best care possible.

I’ve had many setbacks but also many successes. There’s a LOT that can go wrong with transplant and so far I’ve avoided many of the big concerns (heart failure, pneumonia, blood clots) but these will be lifelong worries unfortunately, though the biggest risk is first two years.

I’m having issues with my bladder and kidneys but have a fabulous urologist to help deal with that stuff. I also have hearing issues and a skin rash that is a side effect of transplant called graft versus host disease. We are hopeful with time they will get better.

In two weeks I will start a series of tests (bone marrow biopsy, lumbar puncture, chimer, bloodwork) to determine if I’m in remission and if the transplant is working. They will do these tests every few months for two years.

It’s also likely I’m going to start additional intracathecal (spinal) chemo in a few weeks to keep targeting my central nervous system (brain and spine) where they don’t trust the cancer to stay in remission. My biggest concern/threat still is the cancer recurring because it’s just so aggressive.

So for the next few months my focus remains on just trying to get better. Transplant recovery requires learning how to re-do a lot of things as your body is so weak but I’m able to walk up to 2km (it was 200m a few weeks ago) so I see progress!

Thank you so much for everyone for checking in, your kind words and texts and emails. Our family is just so appreciative of everyone. We get a lot of questions about what people can do to help - and we have lots of help but consider donating blood! I’ve used almost 100 blood and platelet transfusions since my diagnosis last June. And if you’re under 35, consider registering to be a stem cell donor!

(Photo is of me and my new stem cells!)