This Week In Art/Culture/Entertainment
ShareBy John Swartz The 46th annual Orillia Scottish Festival is happening July 20 at Couchiching Beach Park. Well, most of
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The administration is besmirching my reputation. The tone of the information I have does not say otherwise.
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Sunday At The Mariposa Folk Festival
ShareBy John Swartz It just kept getting better. Each day of the Mariposa Folk Festival was better than the one
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Saturday At The 2024 Mariposa Folk Festival
They don’t so much as play energetic Rock, they attack their mission with zeal. What a fun band.
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Friday At The 2024 Mariposa Folk Festival
Once again festival organizers chose and assembled a lineup order that works. As someone mentioned, ‘I don’t know half these acts,’ but it doesn’t matter if it turns out you like what they’re serving.
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I’m not losing sleep over this. There are too many other things going on I can give attention to, but this policy is rubbish.
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Canada Day Was Picture Perfect
During the 1 p.m. opening ceremony, committee chair Brian Hare dedicated this year’s event to past committee chair and 15-year volunteer, the late Ken McLaughlin.
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ShareBy John Swartz It’s Canada Day on Monday. Despite the doom and gloom our national media keeps conjuring, and what
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A Bike For You, And A Bike For You…
Lehmann worked with the folks at Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Orillia and District to figure out how many bikes were needed.
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This Week In Art/Culture/Entertainment, Part 2
… there was one watering hole for every 150 people (for comparison that would be 213 bars today)
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