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February 1, 2007  RSS feed

LIBRARY FUNDRAISER:
Visit the Orangeville Public Library's Alder Street branch anytime during the next four weeks to purchase one of the mitts Katherine Sherrard or another child in the after school club made to raise money for World Vision. Each mitt costs just $1 and the proceeds will go toward the purchase of warm shoes and clothes for 25 disadvantaged children. More...
Frustration over slow budget process
By MANDI HARGRAVE Staff Reporter

It was only the second time they had met, but Orangeville's Citizens' Commission on Finance was already showing frustration Monday evening with how slowly the process for recommending cuts in the Town's 2007 budget was moving. Committee member Don Cameron told Chair Sylvia Bradley he had a problem with the minutes from the previous meeting. More...

Town, province to share cost of bypass study
By LAVINIA KERR Staff Reporter

Public Works director Larry McGregor advised Shelburne council Monday night that the provincial government has agreed to conduct, and share the cost of, a traffic study aimed at determining the need for a town bypass. More...


ERAMOSA STUDENTS Josh Herwymen, Adam Redikoop, Sandy Smith and Amelia DeGroot on a Grade 5 trip to the Outdoor Education Centre at Island Lake last week had a visit with Orangeville Orville, the local groundhog who predicts an early spring or six more weeks of winter. He wasn't saying much last week but he is expected to make a prediction today. More...

County road conditions available on the Web
By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

To scroll through "highway conditions" on the Weather Network's website is to gain a new appreciation for Dufferin County - no matter whether that be for staff personnel or for county council. As most people are aware, the television version of Weather Network does not normally display conditions of county and regional roads. More...

 Local News
• article has image Cardiac diagnostics available at Headwaters
In its effort to improve services locally, Headwaters Health Care Centre now offers, in partnership with Southlake Regional Health Centre, the best emergency heart care available. An agreement signed in the fall between the two hospitals began an innovative partnership that provides this community with access to a range of comprehensive services. More...
• WDG Health unit warns of norovirus
• article has image Prank leads to Westside evacuation
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 Editorial
• Tory's minimum wage commission likely a good idea
IT'S TOO SOON TO TELL, but chances are that one of the big-ticket issues in next October's provincial election will be the province's minimum wage law, and more particularly the demands we're hearing from some politicians, labour leaders and the province's biggest newspaper that it should go up 25 per cent from its new level of $8 an hour. More...
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• Trailways shouldn't have to be fenced
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 Columns
• article has image Busy times for area Kin
Well, we rang in 2007 with many happy memories of 2006! It has been a great start to our club season with 9 new members joining the Kinsmen Club and 2 new members joining the Kinette Club! More...
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 Mailbox
• Effective water use policies needed
Potable water is set to become the public issue following the environment. When the Mulroney government negotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)critical oversights were included in the agreement that leave Canada at the mercy of any entrepreneur seeking to extract water from this country's lakes and aquifers to sell to the parched areas of the U.S.A and to countries elsewhere. More...
• A comment on 'God's Will'
• Alarming suggestions
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 Regional News
• Randall loses appeal of murder conviction
Ontario's highest court has rejected James Vernon Randall's appeal of his Feb. 14, 2003, conviction for first-degree murder in the death of Jennifer Zumach, his common-law spouse. Scott Cowan, who had formed the defence team along with Toronto lawyer Dick Derstine in the fourweek 2002-03 trial before Mr. Justice Terrance O'Connor and a jury, represented Mr. More...
• Laurie McGaw's designs for coins introduced in Ottawa
• Forested land can save you cash!
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 Sports
• Muskies enter second season in second
Not wanting to allow fate to sort out the log jam atop the WOAA Northern Division standings, the Shelburne Muskies took matters into their own hands with a pair of solid performances, wrapping up the regular season in sole possession of second place on the strength of wins over both Elora and Palmerston this past weekend. More...
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• Athletics kickoff with 5-1 win
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