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International Wine & Food Tasting plus Live and Silent Auctions Meaford Hall Saturday, October 16, 2010 Doors open at 5:30 pm Price is all inclusive $70.00 per person with a $40.00 tax receipt. Tickets go on sale mid August The Meaford Rotary Club is looking forward to our 4th Annual Wine and Food Tasting Gala. [...]
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Struggling to save for a rainy day? You are not alone, according to Canada’s biggest bank. A new poll released by Royal Bank of Canada on Wednesday found that 57 per cent of Canadians are having trouble setting aside enough savings. Socking away the cash has become tough because bills and debt are eating up [...]
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ACROSS northern India, householders who were braced for a bout of violent sectarian strife are sighing with relief. The people most affected by one of the world’s biggest arguments over sacred turf, in the town of Ayodhya, seemed to accept the verdict, even if it was not quite what they wanted. On September 30th judges [...]
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Volunteers and potential volunteers are invited to attend the Volunteer Recruitment Fair with special presentations at Meaford Hall on Tuesday, October 26. Sponsored by Volunteer Meaford!, the Meaford & District Chamber of Commerce and The Trillium Foundation, those interested in volunteering within the Municipality of Meaford have the opportunity to check out over 20 organizations [...]
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Your friends may matter to you in ways that you can’t even see – at the level of neural circuitry in the brain. It turns out that the brain’s frontal midline, an area between the two hemispheres that is associated with socialization and the way you think about yourself, also shows a greater response from [...]
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Kids in the Meaford Hall is pleased to announce a strong team of live Theatre enthusiasts has assembled to produce a great Twas the Night Before Christmas show. Auditions have been held at the MCS School. There has been a great interest to be part of a fabulous cast of males and females from ages [...]
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By Chris Fell – The Municipality of Meaford had a $600,000 surplus in 2009 thanks in part to some warm weather and well-behaved residents. In a year-end budget variance report, staff told council that they had ended the year $599,646 under budget. A combination of higher revenues (tax arrears were much lower than expected) and [...]
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By Chris Fell – The Municipality of Meaford has a new fire chief. Mike Molloy officially took the reins of the Meaford Fire Department on Thursday, September 30. He is replacing former chief Steve Nickels, who is retiring after nearly five years as the municipality’s first full-time fire chief. Molloy is a 16-year veteran of [...]
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Ontario’s eco fees on thousands of hazardous household products like cleaners have been consigned to the scrap heap, but existing recycling charges will remain on paint, TVs and other home electronics. The fees — of up to $6.66 per item —appeared July 1, only to be suspended three weeks later after a widespread backlash. On [...]
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Was a prominent Canadian journalist fired for suggesting PM Steven Harper is a Straussian? Rick Salutin, recently of the Globe and Mail, was easily one of that papers most sophisticated and erudite columnists. He wrote with authority and conviction on a wide range of subjects. He “stuck out” at the Globe and Mail as he [...]
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You don’t have to look hard to find environmental themes in director James Cameron’s films: Nuclear war was an obvious subplot in the Terminator series, as the heroes fought off time-traveling cyborg assassins hell-bent on ensuring their own post-apocalyptic reign. In his most recent film, 2009′s Avatar, humans exploit the mineral resources of a wonderland [...]
