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Columns March 30, 2006  RSS feed

Caught ya!!
     A funny thing happened on the way to the meeting.....Actually, it wasn%27t really that funny, and it turned out to be quite a moment for some serious learning.
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Royal Canadian Legion News
     For this Friday Members Night, Lindsay Morgan is back at Branch 233 to entertain in the Lounge from 6 pm until 10. From 5 pm until 7, we will be serving Roast Beef Dinners for $4.00 to eat-in or take out. Saturday is our Turkey and Meat Roll from 1 to 6 pm and everyone is welcome to come out and try
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Fire a product of six years' indecision
     One oft-heard prediction finally came true last week when Orangeville%27s
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Lent, 2006
     The Lenten season began as the final preparation for the baptism of adults who had been under instruction for many months.
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'Irresponsible and selfish activities'
     G od%27s grace, I fear, has nothing to do with. Indeed, "grace" from any source doesn%27t
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Offended religious groups not turning cheek
     Premier Dalton McGuinty is learning that when he offends religious groups, they
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Circle in the Sand
     I was nervous a few days ago before performing to a room full of university students,
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Supersized In A Small World
     T here%27s been a lot of talk over the past few years about the growth in North
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Nota bene
     University students planning graduate studies, particularly outside Canada, as at Oxford or Cambridge, face the necessity of having a language other than their mother tongue. Obiter dictum: The fact that we do not say "father tongue" acknowledges that mothers are still the first teachers of their ch
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Dipping Into the Past
Melancthon scene of fatal outbreak of typhoid pneumonia
     100 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 29, 1906  A serious epidemic of fever has broken out on the Back Line, Melancthon. It appears that a lady came recently from Carman, Manitoba, where her husband had died of some kind of fever. Mrs. George Smith took the disease first and Miss Mary Smith assisted to wa
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Orangeville Trustee (Upper Grand District School Board) Monthly Column Edition: March, 2006
     On March 23rd, the provincial government tabled its 2006 Budget and many across the province listened intently for signs of any impact on their sectors. Those of us in the Upper Grand Board were no different; we wanted to see where the McGuinty government would be taking public education.
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