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 Chicken Dinner Fundraiser
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A FEAST FOR FUNDS: MacMaster Pontiac Buick GMC held its annual chicken dinner sale at its Highway 9 dealership and sold 480 dinners. In doing so, they raised over $5,000 for Headwaters Health Care Centre.read more
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 Torch Run
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SUPPORT FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS - The 25th Annual Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics was held Wednesday.read more
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 A better place to abide?
I sat down at my computer just now all set to write an article about abiding, abiding in love, abiding in God and God abiding in us. It was all ready in my head, but then I noticed the date when this would be published, May 17th. That was the date twentyfive years ago that I was ordained. The wheels in my rusty old brain took a somewhat different turn.read more
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 United we stand
DOUG SKEATES
From the Global Classroom
I n a vast country such as Canada, how can people pull themselves together to create a unified nation where people can live as if within one culture?read more
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 National Affairs
CLAIRE HOY
The only thing you really have to know about the marathon – and often violent – strike by the Quebec university mobs is that they invited Paul Rose to speak at one of their rallies.
Rose, for those of you who don’t know or may have forgotten, was one of the leaders of the Front de liberation du Qu
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 Ontario Matters
ROB BREDIN
“Workin the fields till you get your back burned.... You spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Badlands you gotta live it every day...(And) the price you gotta pay We’ll keep pushin’ till it’s understood, And these badlands start treating us good.”read more
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 From our Mailbox
Subject: anti-smoking bylaw:
I am contacting you about your May 10 article concerning the new smoking by-law. The decision to ban smoking on all town-owned land is preposterous and against the Canadian constitution.read more
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 OBITER DICTA
WILLIAM BOTHWELL
“C ome down to Kew in lilac time; it isn’t far from London”. The invitation is in a poem by Alfred Noyes (1880-1958). He is better known for “The Highwayman” in which the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor. And a highwayman comes riding, riding up to the old inn door.read more
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 A trip through the country in 1878
Museum Matters
WBy Cosette Pathak hile using one of the microfiche scanners in the Dufferin County
Museum & Archives to read a copy of The Orangeville Sun of November 14, 1878, I came across a most interesting article written by an unknown tourist.read more
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 Must austerity always be so arbitrary?
THE MAIN ISSUE facing debt-ridden governments here and abroad is clearly the extent to which austerity should replace stimulus as the best route toward economic recovery.
Recent elections in France and Greece have clearly demonstrated that their electorates have tired of austerity measures that thus far have only worsened unemployment and choked off economic growth.read more
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 Musical struts through the '30s and '40s
By DAN PELTON
Staff Reporter
For its first production, local theatre company LP Productions staged Shout!, which was a musical based on the tunes of the 1960s.
Then, they did a show that was a spoof of the silly coming-of-age kids flicks that permeated the 1980s.read more
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 Police entering social media age
 The Orangeville Police Service has entered the world of social media with the launch of their new Twitter account.
“We continue to find new ways to engage the community and keep an open line of communications with the residents that we serve”, explained Community Services Officer, Constable Scott Davis.read more
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 Stanton Hotel given 10-month reprieve
By WES KELLER
Freelance Reporter
The former Stanton Hotel has won a 10- month postponement of its death, to give its supporters an opportunity to find funding to keep it alive on site or move it to the museum or, one must infer, elsewhere.read more
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 Meth clinic owner moves to allay public concerns
By DAN PELTON
Staff Reporter
The prospect of a combination pharmacy and methadone treatment clinic opening in the Brenda Plaza at Broadway and Diane Drive as early as next week is causing concern among some local residents.
Manveer Dhillon, owner of the Pharmasave outlet, says he understands the apprehension, but wants to assure people that its presence will not have any negative effect on the neighbourhood.read more
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 Hill pleased at response from ARA review committee
By WES KELLER
Freelance Reporter
Melancthon Mayor Bill Hill says he got a positive response to his concise, 1,500-word presentation on the Aggregate Resources Act review in Toronto Monday.
“The committee, I believe, liked the fact our comments were direct and specific for the most part while others were more general. Only time will tell,” he said in an emailed response to a bid for his reaction.read more
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 Our World Today
GWYNNE DYER
The Oslo Accords, signed in 1993, were supposed to lead, through a “peace process”, to the final solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: two sovereign states living side by side in peace.read more
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 Ontario Matters
ROB BREDIN
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.
– Herophilus, physician and philosopher,read more
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The 15th annual Dufferin Youth Festival of the Arts was a huge success with about 2,000 students attending and performing over the four days last week, May 7-10.
