May 2018 Archive

Which way will the court lean?

SINCE 1982, when the British North America Act was “repatriated” to Canada and the government of Pierre Trudeau gave us the Canadian Charter of Rights ...

Wanted: a three-lane design

FIRST STREET, Orangeville’s busiest north-south artery, currently has four lanes between Fifth Avenue and Hansen Boulevard, and left turn lanes at the signalized Elizabeth/Second Avenue ...

Jr. Bengals play first NDBL game

By Brian Lockhart The North Dufferin Baseball League has seven teams in the junior division line-up this season and that includes the Orangeville Bengals who ...

Kushindokai students compete at Karate Maynia tournament

Students from Kushindokai Karate and Fitness travelled to Kitchener on Saturday, May 5, to compete in the Karate Maynia Tournament. Fourteenn students made the trip ...

DCAFS doing its part to Build Better Tomorrows in Dufferin County

By Mike Pickford “Less is more, but none is best.” A peculiar sentence if simply said out loud, but for approximately 160 area residents that ...

Widbur Tournament makes record donation to Headwaters hospital

By Brian Lockhart Over the past 11 years, the Jennifer Widbur Memorial Hockey Tournament has produced a huge contribution through their fundraising effort for the ...

Tweedsmuir Presbyterian Church dedicates new accessibility project

By Brian Lockhart For those with a disability, getting to church has been made a whole lot easier at Tweedsmuir Memorial Presbyterian Church in Orangeville. ...

Job fair linking employers with would-be employees draws 300

By Brian Lockhart A job fair hosted by the Town of Orangeville’s Economic Development department brought employers and those seeking employment together at the Best ...

Mark Crawford’s Birds and the Bees is riotously funny

By Constance Scrafield The Opening Night audience at The Birds and the Bees laughed uproariously throughout the performance and were ecstatically entertained by the end. ...

Hospice Dufferin rakes in $20,000 from two recent fundraisers

By Mike Pickford What a month it has been for Hospice Dufferin. Two recent fundraising efforts have raked in over $20,000 for the local non-profit ...

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