November 10, 2011 RSS feed / Front Page

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TOP FUNDRAISER:

Westside Secondary School’s Riley Creen was this year’s top fundraiser at the school’s annual Pink Day breast cancer campaign, raising over $500 on his own. More...

THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION

THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Branch 233 in Orangeville held its Remembrance Banquet Saturday. Tweedsmuir Presbyterian Minister and former military chaplain Harvey Self was the guest speaker. More...

Special Sections

Editorial

There may be a way to avoid the cost

NONE OTHER THAN Roy McMurtry, who was Ontario’s attorney general under the government of former premier William Davis before becoming the province’s long-serving Chief Justice, coauthored an opinion piece in Sunday’s Toronto Star th More...

Others’ views

Remarkable program gone

For the last 19 years, students at Ottawa’s Catholic Notre Dame High School have benefitted from a remarkable community program. More...

A challenging topic

A N ORANGEVILLE COUNCIL committee struck to review the town’s sign bylaw has recommended banning ‘bag’ signs from public property and made suggestions on the appearance and placement of portable signs within town limits. More...

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Mailbox

A plea to stop the mega quarry

The following letter is addressed to Sylvia Jones, MPP and David Tilson, MP: I travel through your areas of provincial and federal jurisdiction at least half a dozen times a year in order to visit friends in Lake Eugenia, Clarksburg and Thornbury. More...

Your comments

on www.citizen. on. ca Re: AGCO continues assault on The Deck - “I would have to agree with Mr. Callaghan, the AGCO inspector has it out for him. More...

Which problem is worse?

Today one wonders which of the world’s problems poses the greatest threat to humankind. Could it be the declining sources of potable water despite the flooding in many countries throughout the planet? More...

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Sports

Flyers post double wins

By BRIAN LOCKHART Sports Editor

The Orangeville Flyers ended a five game drought with a pair of back to back wins over the weekend. On Friday, November 4, the Flyers travelled to Huntsville and came home with a 5-4 win over the Otters. More...

Orangeville Otters host annual swim meet

The Orangeville Otters hosted their annual invitational swim meet on Saturday, October 29, with eight regional swim teams taking part in the event at the Alder Street Recreation Complex pool. More...

Article

Scott Berry 50m Breast stroke 58.85 sec. Juana Claus 50m Back stroke 48.37 sec. 50m Breast stroke 48.91 sec. Matias Claus 50m Free style 38.76 sec. 50m Breast stroke 50.24 sec. More...

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Residents speak out at DEEP public meeting

By DAN PELTON & WES KELLER

About 100 Dufferin area residents converged at the Horizons Event Centre in Mono Saturday to hear more information on, and offer their input into, the proposed gasification plant in the Dufferin Eco Energy Park (DEEP). More...

County to budget for renovations, roads study

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

At its November meeting tonight, Dufferin County Council is to consider a recommendation to invest more than $4 million for renovations of the former OK Bowling site to accommodate its Community Services staff and create a “community services h More...

Local News

CHARITY RIDE:

A Scotiabank team was at the third annual Knights of Columbus Charity Motorcycle Ride for Orangeville’s Bolton family. More...

Orangeville McDonald’s scene of poppy box theft

Orangeville has joined the ranks of Ontario centres experiencing thefts from poppy boxes. More...

She served coffee to go on front lines

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

Christine Thomas of Mono worked at a Tim Hortons for six months between October, 2010 and May, 2011. That, in itself, is hardly newsworthy. But in this case, the Tim Hortons was near the front lines in Kandahar, Afghanistan. More...

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Columns

War to end all wars

Or so we were informed about WWI back in the 1930s. Remembrance is about folk who fought and died in that war and others which followed including about the 150 who died in Afghanistan in the last 10 years. More...

Flown away

Years ago now, in the early-1980s, when a young man and senior Boy Scout, I used to sit with my family in a pew near the back at Christ Church--Deer Park, Toronto, our parish growing-up. More...

Good riddance to gun control

What is conveniently overlooked by the zealous promoters of Canada’s failed gun control law is that when Marc Lepine walked into the Ecole Polytechnique on Dec. More...

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