Posts By Sam Odrowski

High School basketball resumes after holiday breakdown

By Brian Lockhart High school basketball teams have resumed their season going into the new year, with both Orangeville high schools competing in junior and ...

ODSS hockey team in second place after win over Erin

By Brian Lockhart The Orangeville District Secondary School Scarlett Bears boy’s hockey team is now in second place in the District 4 / 10 standings ...

Arts and Entertainment 2023 Year in Review Part II

By Constance Scrafield Here we are, and welcome back to the second half of our 2023 Arts Review. Last week, we took you through some ...

Two public meetings scheduled for proposed boundary review of Primrose Elementary

By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Upper Grand District School Board (UGDSB) will host two additional public delegation meetings regarding a proposed boundary ...

Orangeville Food Bank partners with Grand Valley under ‘Dufferin Food Share’

By Sam Odrowski The Orangeville Food Bank is joining forces with the Grand Valley Food Bank to create the “Dufferin Food Share.” The Orangeville Food ...

Inherent liability

By Brian Lockhart Near where I grew up, there was a large park with several hills leading off from the main parking lot. It wasn’t ...

Grandma’s family superstitions 

One morning in the late 1960s as I got a bit older, I had graduated from cereal and milk and was having a ‘big boy’ ...

Government bureaucracy is out of control – and Canadians are paying the price 

By Frank Stronach If you asked most Canadians if this country needs more bureaucrats, they’d probably say no. Unfortunately, Canada’s bureaucracy continues to mushroom in ...

Israel held hostage – and Biden too

By Gwynne Dyer Israel is withdrawing some troops from Gaza, because the reservists who were called up for the fighting amount to 10%-15% of the ...

Art is the HeartBeat

By Constance Scrafield Every week, writing for the Citizen, I write a feature for the Arts and Entertainment page. Some of those times, I am ...

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