November 2017 Archive

Westside raises $20,000 at 14th annual Pink Day

By Avery Park For the fourteenth year in a row, Westside Secondary School has created a sea of pink here in Orangeville. Last Friday, Nov. ...

We remember our local heroes

By Mike Pickford While it has been more than 70 years since local resident Fred Heber returned home from the horrors of war, the memories ...

Council vote to add firefighters pushes 2018 tax hike to 3.97%

By Mike Pickford Orangeville Council had a change of heart Monday evening, voting in favour of hiring eight new full-time firefighters less than two weeks ...

Special ceremony at ODSS to welcome 35 new citizens

By Mike Pickford Orangeville District Secondary School (ODSS) is bringing a “once in a lifetime” event to the community next week in the form of ...

What to do when dreams die

By Tabitha Wells One of my favourite quotes from Walt Disney is, “If you can dream it, you can do it.” For years, I took ...

Canada’s forgotten war

By Brian Lockhart It has been called ‘the forgotten war’ for a lot of reasons. The Korean War was fairly brief by war standards, lasting ...

A lack of teen hangout spots

By Avery Park As teenagers in Orangeville, my friends and I are always looking for something to go out and do, but we can never ...

Let’s have medicare, Bernie-style

VERMONT SENATOR Bernie Sanders certainly found himself preaching to the converted when he spoke last Sunday to a sold-out crowd at the University of Toronto’s ...

Time to ‘remember’?

WITH NOVEMBER 11 still more than a week away, we think it is fitting that Remembrance observances are being held earlier this year. Locally, the ...

Twisters coaches honoured with career achievement award

By Brian Lockhart After decades of coaching young gymnasts, Ken and Kim Rae were honoured at the Gymnastics Ontario Awards Banquet with the Stan Stenoff ...

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