Updating The Official Plan
You will have an opportunity to ask questions of the project team. Any input will become part of the Official Plan final draft.
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Orillia Hall Of Fame Grows By Three
The trio joins previous inductees Gordon Lightfoot, Stephen Leacock, Rick Ley, Pete McGarvey, James K. Bartleman, Franklin Carmichael, Glenn Gould, Charles H. Hale, Walter Henry and Elizabeth Wyn Wood among others.
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Battery Collection This Week
It’s also the time of year to check your smoke and CO alarms which you should be doing each time we go from standard to daylight time, so leave room in the bag for one more battery.
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Council Preview
For a City so invested in traffic safety they installed speed cameras, taking out sidewalks seems counterproductive.
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Things I Never Said Before
I got a big charge out of Bob Carroll, my dentist back in the 70s, he’d stick a lead blanket over my crotch before he took an x-ray of my teeth. Why didn’t dentists do that during my childbearing years?
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This Week In Art/Culture/Entertainment
I have to say, having heard several medleys based on Chicago’s tunes, this one is the best arrangement I’ve heard.
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Barry Keane, Still Having Fun
“There’s no end in sight right now. We’re all having a blast and as long as people want to come and hear the songs, we’re going play them for them. Why quit?”
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Why Do We Pay Taxes?
I suppose, in the end, it comes to a failure of our leaders to keep us in the loop on what the dollars spent return to us in services and living conditions, and for each of us to spend a little time to understand what our dollars cover.
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Council Preview / 2026 Operating Budget
Regarding last week’s capital budget meeting, there were motions to adopt the budget and for the mayor to waive veto of any additions council proposed and passed.
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Not The Nutcracker
By that time I was into the single malt and missed the second act.
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