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July 1, 2010 / Front Page

COMMUNITY LIVING DUFFERIN

Photo/DAN PELTON COMMUNITY LIVING DUFFERIN held its annual appreciation dinner for all those who have helped the organization fulfill its goal of helping its clients participate and prosper in the community. More...

Porteous wins 2010 Putman Award

The 2010 Gary Putman Award was presented to Martin Porteous at the Dufferin Child and Family Services (DCAFS) annual general meeting, held Wednesday June 23. More...

Local News

New marketing twitters to fame and fortune

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

When somebody comes up to you and boasts that he sends thousands of twitter messages a month, a likely response would be: “Dude, get a life!” In the case of Scott Stratten, though, it’s all part of his profession. More...

Fake ice a Canada Day feature

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

The Canada Day crowd in Shelburne today will have an opportunity to see two kinds of progress: Russian hockey players as a team in a Canadian league, and an addition to Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex that includes an installation of “ice&r More...

Retired OPP officer convicted of sex assaults

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

A former OPP officer will be back in Superior Court in Orangeville July 5 to set a date for his sentencing on several sexual assault charges, some of which date back to the 1970s. More...

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Columns

With Your Permission

How fragile are our ‘freedoms’?

The papers are still full of reports about the aftermath of last weekend’s unruliness, and there are still writings about those people still untangling themselves from sudden and unwarranted incarceration. More...

Angles ’n’ Attitudes

A border between friends

Morse’s Line, Franklin, Vermont, 95 km southeast of Montréal, is on the international border. Cows outnumber automobiles. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans a new ‘Checkpoint Charlie’ there. More...

From the Global Classroom

Give me a place to stand

Living and working in other corners of the world has been a fabulous experience. An interesting aspect of that has been listening to the views of so many people about how highly Canada is rated. More...

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Sports

Kings double up over Dawgs

Orangeville Kings find themselves back on the winning track, posting a pair of back-toback, double up wins over Rockwood and Alma respectively in Intercounty Fastball League play. More...

Orangeville Ladies 3-Pitch Standings to June 26/10

Access Fitness Mackhall Mobility IMBC Commercial Street KC Auctions/Maytag Dufferin Apparel Mason Reno ML Fire PDB General TJ’S The Body Bar Jody’s Flair for Hair Perry’s Fairies GP 8877778785778 Pts 14 13 12 12 More...

Dallas Stars draft Guptill

The Dallas Stars have brought Orangeville Crushers forward Alex Guptill one step closer to his hockey dreams. More...

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Council weighs in on municipal debt issue

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

When it comes to local municipal politics and administration, debt is a four-letter word of vile proportions. More...

Towns to open doors to show off their heritage

By LINDSEY PAPP Staff Reporter

Orangeville, Caledon and Erin will be rolling out the red carpet to visitors on Saturday, July 10 and inviting them to come and see this area’s heritage and history. More...

One Step Closer

MACMASTER PONTIAC BUICK GMC NORTHMEN are one step closer to advancing to the next round of the Junior B playoffs after pulling out a come from behind 5-4 victory over the Welland Warlords at the Tony Rose arena on Tuesday evening. More...

Editorial

It was the perfect site – for G20’s hooligans

AWHILE AGO, it was suggested on this page that the sites chosen for the G8 and G20 summits were inappropriate, and that it would have been preferable to hold both conferences at a university campus in midsized cities such as Sudbury, Peterborough or More...

Political Cartoon

Full Story

A worthwhile evening of information

IT IS TO THE CREDIT of Rev. Edward Bellsmith of Trinity United Church in Shelburne that a public forum on local affairs turned out to be a worthwhile evening of information for many of the 60 or so in attendance. More...

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Mailbox

Harper has now introduced McCarthyism to Canada

The Harper Government claims that some municipal politicians are under foreign sway”, particularly Chinese influence. More...

A correspondent’s disagreement with Fr. John Lockyer

A correspondent’s disagreement with Fr. John Lockyer seemed unaware that the Westminster Confession is irrelevant to Anglicans. For them the term ‘Protestant’ means ‘non-Roman’, not ‘anti- Catholic’. More...

Instead of blaming, what would we have done?

Re: Orangeville Citizen, Surely a peace plan can be reached among the brightest” June 24 In 1947, the United Nations offered the Israelis and Arabs to divide the land of Mandate Palestine into two states. More...

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Regional News

Two new Shelburne awards announced

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Melissa Kelly, the Shelburne girl who lost her lifelong battle with Spina Bifida in 2007, is commemorated with a mural in Hyland Heights Elementary School where she is remembered as an inspiration to fellow students and teachers throughout her seven More...

Canadian team world karate champion,

Photo/DAN PELTON CLINT CORA, Canadian team world karate champion, was in Orangeville Wednesday to promote Orangeville Toastmasters, a public speaking club that meets every Monday at 7 p.m at the Alzhe More...

Kaitlin Bolton - an angel in disguise

By Constance Scrafield-Danby Freelance Contributor

“She wakes up and breathes, why won’t OHIP care for her?” The sort of low chair that sits on the floor and normally might hold a baby, provides a comfortable place of repose for Kaitlin Bolton. More...

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