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October 15, 2009 RSS feed / Front Page

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CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH: A number of local service providers, including police, ambulance and political figures, gathered at Dufferin Child and Family Services last week to mark the beginning of Child Abuse Prevention Month. More...

Local News

DCAFS facing $1.1M deficit

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

While the harsh economic climate is being felt all over, Dufferin Child and Family Services (DCAFS) is being particularly hard-hit, facing a $1.1-million deficit for its current fiscal year. More...

County's hiring rules challenged

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

A recommendation that a prospective candidate for a County of Dufferin position as department head should be introduced to the full council before his or her employment is ratified, has been returned to the committee that made the proposal for furt More...

Grannies plan Flavours of Africa Dinner

The Orangeville Go Go Grannies are inviting everyone to join them for their "Flavours of Africa" event, a dinner featuring tasty recipes from various regions of Africa. More...

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Columns

Random Reflections

'Romance of the rails' still lives on
Tom Claridge

The weather was typical of this October — cool and wet, albeit not as cold as we're finding it this week — and the fall colours were barely discernable. More...

Angles 'n' Attitudes

There'll always be a Thames
William Bothwell

The London (U.K) tube map is a tangle of coloured underground transport routes. The Central Line is marked in red, the Circle Line in yellow. More...

National Affairs

Obama seems to be taking the same path
Claire Hoy

Here's something worth noting. Aging Cuban dictator Fidel Castro said something that actually made sense. Reacting to the bizarre awarding of the Nobel Peace Prince to neophyte U.S. More...

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Sports

Crushers take two of weekend three

By MIKE MALONEY Sports Editor

The song says that "two out of three ain't bad" and one could guess that was a sentiment shared around the Crushers' dressing room Monday morning after the team took two of three games this past weekend. More...

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TEAM EFFORT. The Orangeville Tyke Select Flyers put a total team effort on the ice but could not overcome an early goal deficit, falling 4-1 to Oakville in action at the Tony Rose on Saturday evening. Photo/MIKE MALONEY More...

Thunder edge Royals

It is fast shaping up as another battle of Dufferin in District 4 Senior Girls basketball. Last Wednesday, CDDHS and Westside put their unbeaten records on the line as the two met for the first time this season. More...

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County, AlterNRG reach MOU on energy-from-waste plant

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Dufferin County Council and Calgary-based AlterNRG have completed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for construction of a Westinghouse Plasma technology energy-from-waste facility at EcoEnergy Park (DEEP), and agreed to work toward a "definitive More...

Turner withdraws D-C candidacy

By DAN PELTON & BILL REA

Garth Turner has withdrawn his candidacy for the Liberal nomination in the federal riding of Dufferin-Caledon. More...

Editorial

The real scandal lies in eHealth's very existence

AS WE SEE IT, the real scandal in connection with eHealth Ontario has little to do with the $1 billion the Auditor General says has been wasted by it and its predecessor over the past decade. Rather, it concerns their very existence. More...

Political Cartoon

Full Story

Dump question poses an anomaly

HOWEVER REFRESHING IT MAY BE that municipalities owning old-style dumps in Dufferin are being asked, once again, to consider terms for ceding waste management authority and/or the dumps to the county, we feel safe in predicting the concept will go More...

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Mailbox

HST said to threaten home affordability

Starting July 1, 2010 Ontarians can expect to pay a harmonized sales tax (HST) rate of 13% on a long list goods and services that were previously exempt from the 8% Provincial Sales Tax (PST). More...

Readers give opinions on Melancthon meeting

On Monday I attended the first ever public meeting hosted by Melancthon council about the proposed Highland's mine project. More...

Gun column gets comment

I couldn't help but smile at Mr. Pelton latest column. "After all, sportsmen do nut go deer hunting with a .38" • Hunting with a handgun was perfectly legal... until a certain Pierre Elliott Trudeau decided otherwise... More...

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Regional News

Headwaters board approves hospital's balanced scorecard

At its September meeting the board of directors of Headwaters Health Care Centre approved the hospital's new "balanced scorecard," designed to show how the institution is performing. More...

Proposed forest bylaw slammed by landowners

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Dufferin County's proposed forest conservation bylaw has gone back to committee for reconsideration after about 10 rural landowners at a County public meeting last week spoke strongly against some of its provisions. More...

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HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU: Local dignitaries were on hand at the Island Lake Rowing Club last week for the official opening of a 2.3-kilometre section of the Vicki Barron Trail at the Island Lake Conservation Area. More...

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