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September 17, 2009 RSS feed / Front Page

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GETTING READY. John Wilkinson and his daughter Sydney take a second to tighten their laces before they and countless others across Canada and the world set out to participate in the annual Terry Fox Run. More...

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CONSTRUCTION UNDER WAY: Mono Mayor Lorie Haddock, Warden Gordon Montgomery, MP David Tilson, MPP Linda Jeffery, ELGV Mayor John Oosterhof and Mulmur Deputy Mayor Sue Snider get to do the shovelling at Friday's sod-turning for the 30-unit seniors co More...

Local News

Children's Place to bid farewell

Parents, staff and students of Rolling Hills Children's Place will mark the demise of the daycare centre with a pot luck supper in the final hours of the 14-year-old institution's existence tomorrow. More...

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AUTHOR LAWRENCE HILL presented a reading, and a subsequent signing, of his work The Book of Negroes Sunday at the Orangeville Opera House. Among those who lined up to have their copy signed by the author was Sonya Hutter. More...

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EARLY BIRD WINNER: Ken Tate reaches for the ticket to the Headwaters hospital auxiliary's house tour that will give the Early Bird winner a ride on the Credit Valley Explorer, as Lynda Platt and Wendy McDonald hold the bucket. More...

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Election Fever - Harper's Hidden Agenda Rears Again

As the prospect of a fall election moves slowly toward reality, it is a good time to give pause to what this actually means to the people of Dufferin-Caledon. More...

Re: "Mel the skate man marks 25 years"

In these tough economic times, it is rare indeed for many businesses not only to survive but also to thrive. In this case, Mel Zahodnik has beat the odds. More...

'Big Day' a success

Mono's Big Day Out was a resounding success. The crowd of hundreds and hundreds of Mono residents and admirers from townships all around just kept coming and coming all day. The day was beautiful. More...

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Regional News

Murder-suicide mystifies neighbours

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit is probing events at and near the Camilla home where Hugh Ferguson, 42, took his own life after fatally shooting his estranged wife, Heidi, 39, on Westdale Avenue in Orangeville late last Friday night. More...

Highland Companies mulls farming growth

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Potatoes will continue to be a vital part of The Highland Companies operations in Dufferin, spokesman Michael Daniher says in a periodic update on the company's farming operations. More...

Sparks fly at opening of quarry hearing

By BILL REA Caledon Citizen

A long-awaited Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing into a quarry application by James Dick Construction Limited (JDCL) opened Tuesday to a packed house and heated words. It was standing-room only in the hall at St. More...

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Committee recommends town council pay hikes

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

Orangeville mayor Rob Adams has guardedly responded to reports that the Council Remuneration Review Ad Hoc Committee has recommended 31 percent pay raises for the next administration's mayor and council, as well as a 17 percent hike for the next de More...

Baywinds, neighbours square off at council

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

As the raucous sound of a country and western band reverberated from the Opera House above, Orangeville's council chambers were just as lively with the beat of a delegation of Starrview Crescent/ Victoria Heights residents complaining about the nea More...

Theatre Orangeville wins federal grant

After 10 years of trying, Theatre Orangeville got its first Canada Arts Council grant this year for the 2009/10 season. Artistic Director David Nairn has submitted applications for the grants every year during his entire time here at the theatre. More...

Editorial

Another election, another minority, unless . .

WITHOUT A DOUBT, most Canadians don't want another federal election, yet it seems fairly certain not only that they're going to have one but that the result will be similar to that achieved by the last three trots to the polls — a minority go More...

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Score one for gun control

ONE THING THE GUN LOBBY continues to assert is the enormous contrast between the use of firearms by the criminal element and the recreational use by law-abiding citizens Time and again, we hear derision trained on Canada's hugely expensive gun reg More...

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Columns

Christian Perspectives

"Stir up, O Lord the wills of your faithful people."
Rev. Mary Ranger

"Stir up, O Lord the wills of your faithful people." These words are the start of a prayer we use in our church every year at about the start of September. It's an ancient prayer that goes back over 400 years. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

BY TINA MORRELL Branch 233, Orangeville

On Saturday,September 19th join us for karaoke from 9pm to 1am with host Jill Phillips. More...

Random Reflections

Marking a 35th anniversary
Tom Claridge

AFEW WEEKS AGO, Keith Hunter somewhat apologetically asked whether I could be the speaker at the September 17 meeting of the Orangeville Rotary Club, at one point reminding me that my grandfather, T. K. More...

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Sports

Crushers kick off season with 5-3 win

By MIKE MALONEY Sports Editor

Their first ten minutes on the ice may have been a little less than inspiring, but once the jitters settled down and the opening night butterflies dissipated, the Orangeville Crushers got down to the business at hand, defeating the Toronto Junior C More...

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LOCAL JUNIOR HOCKEY hockey fans had the rare opportunity to see some of the OHL's best at the Alder Street Community Centre last Friday night. More...

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THE 2009 season drew to a close for the Shelburne Thunder U14 Girls soccer club this past weekend. More...

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