January 19, 2012 RSS feed / Front Page

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MONO WINTERFEST:

Despite below-zero temperatures Sunday, a large crowd showed up at the Mono Community Centre to sample the apple cider, skate and slide down the hill, go on a hay ride, or have their Christmas tree put through the chipper. More...

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Editorial

Will Liberals get any Rae of hope?

A S WE SEE IT, the position Bob Rae is taking as interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada is both realistic and appropriate. More...

An alternative to $3.5M expansion?

I N VIEW OF THE NEED for expansion of Headwaters Health Care Centre at a projected cost of $3.5 million, we cannot help wondering what the hospital board was thinking when it moved Shelburne’s “complex continuing care” (CCC) to the More...

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Mailbox

January 26 meeting said important

Re Mel Lloyd Annual General Meeting I note that in the notice section of the want ads section of your paper is a small notice that the Mel Lloyd Family Health Team’s Annual General Meeting will be held on January 26th at the Mel Lloyd Centre at More...

Your comments

on www.citizen. on. ca Re: Plasma arc technology gaining ground - “I for one am tired of all of the ‘special interest’ groups who represent such a small percentage of the population. More...

DEEP gets reader’s approval

Your report, “Mono committee report slams DEEP proposal,” 12 January, and others say the report was written by Ed Kroeker and submitted to a “Sustainability Advisory Committee” for publication. More...

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Sports

Coaches corner

by Chris Pomeroy

Hello readers and welcome to my first article on the Shelburne Muskies Senior A Hockey Team. Over the next few months I will be giving you not only game results and recaps, but also a little bit of an inside look at just what makes this team click. More...

Novice AE Flyers in playoffs

In second place at the end of the regular season, The Dodge Caravan Kids Novice AE Flyers traveled to Owen Sound Saturday (Jan. 14) for their first playoff game where they set back the Attack 9-1. More...

TOP SWIMMERS:

The Orangeville Otters Swim Club placed first in team points at the 2011 Port Elgin Swim meet. More...

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Orangeville’s property tax hike stands at 1.7%

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

After three hours of probing the 2012 municipal budget Monday night, Orangeville council’s finance committee arrived at a tentative 1.7-per cent property tax increase for 2012. More...

Local News

Hospital transfer conditions still unknown

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Headwaters Health Care Centre will be looking for about $14 million over the next five years to pay for a capital expansion and new equipment, interim president/CEO Liz Ruegg and Foundation director Joan Burdett revealed in power point presentations More...

Unintentional 911 calls still cause for concern

The Orangeville Police Service says unintentional or misdialed calls to 9-1- 1 continue to be a cause for concern with the force. More...

New book’s readers invited to don judges’ robes

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

Fans of H. Clark Adams’ book, ‘You be the Judge,’ can direct some of their gratitude to boredom and Somalian pirates. After 35 years practising law and 15 as a small claims court judge, Mr. More...

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Columns

A north wind doth blow . . . (II)

I n the credible American movie, The Company Men (2010), we can clearly see the pain and pathos of industrial and economic dislocation. More...

Panic story was absolutely false

I t doesn’t get much worse than this – “this,” of course, being the completely twisted panic story about “changes” in Canada’s same-sex marriage laws which dominated the “news” last week.. More...

Taiwan’s waiting for China

The most important thing in Taiwanese politics is always left unsaid. More...

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