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You may have been following as I have the antics surrounding Site 41 in Tiny Township. The County is intent on completing construction of a dump site over an aquifer of the purest water in the world. The United Church of Canada has taken a position of support for a moratorium on its construction. More ... Saturday Aug 22nd come join us for our Karaoke night from 9pm- 1am with host Johnny Green. Members and Guests welcome. Sunday Aug 23rd we will have Euchre at the Legion starting at 1:00pm (doors open at noon) cost $10.00. Open to the public. All money given back in prizes. More ... If perceptions of the implications of Superior Court Justice Francine Van Melle's interpretation of Ontario's Municipal Conflict of Interest Act are correct, it is in the interests of all municipalities in Ontario for Orangeville to appeal to a higher court. More ... From the middle of August until mid-September has been called 'the silly season'. Nobody quite knows why. The word 'silly' did not originally mean "foolish'; it meant 'carefree', something like the Scottish 'sauncy' (French 'sans souci'). 'Silly season' may have been coined in a 19th Century newspaper office. More ... Communications executive Paul Sweeney once quipped that "self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales." Which brings us, of course, to NDP Leader Jack Layton's absurd bravado at his wrap-up speech at the party's weekend convention in Halifax. More ... One evening recently 'The Agenda' focused on the pros and cons of Toronto as a world class city. The participants, two former Toronto mayors, an ex-mayor of Winnipeg and a current Toronto councilor presented analyses of Canada's biggest city. More ... People tend to remember the old days as good, but praising Ontario's longest-serving premier of recent decades, William Davis, on his 80th birthday as if he was a Mother Theresa is a little too forgiving. Davis was Progressive Conservative premier from 1971 to 1985. More ... 100 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 19, 1909 • George Duke, of Mono Mills, engaged John Murray, a recent arrival from Ireland, as a farm laborer some time ago. On July 30, Murray took his departure without saying goodbye and the next day Mr. Duke discovered that a valuable horse and its saddle and bridle had also disappeared. More ... Robert J. (Bob) Burnside was raised on a farm in northwestern Amaranth and went to school in a one-room school house. He little knew, as a boy, that living such a life would provide him with the emotional and intellectual foundation to create the company that today bears his name. More ... |
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