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April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Sunonline/Orillia City of Orillia

Among by-laws to be enacted is one banning the use of cooking devices of all kinds in city parks for the balance of 2021.

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December 18, 2019December 18, 2019 Sunonline/Orillia Arts District, Brownstone, Cellar Singers, Hog N Penny, Lake Country Grill, Mariposa Folk, Opera House, Orillia Vocal Ensemble, OSB, Roots North, Sharing Place

By John Swartz I’m sure most of you have your Christmas shopping done, right? Except for Uncle Schmedly and Aunt

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October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 Sunonline/Orillia Brownstone, Cellar Singers, City of Orillia, Geneva, Hibernation, Hog N Penny, Lake Country Grill, Lance Anderson, Mariposa Arts, Mariposa Folk, ODAC, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Centre for Arts+Culture, OSB, Peter Street Fine Arts, Peter's Players, Reay, St. Paul's, Streets Alive, VK, Zachary Lucky

By John Swartz The Orillia Centre for Art and Culture has a couple concerts worth seeing this weekend. Friday night Jane

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April 14, 2019September 28, 2019 Sunonline/Orillia City of Orillia

By John Swartz Monday night’s regular council meeting looks light, on paper. At 36 pages it’s one of the slimmest

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Champlain Monument Workshops This Week

April 7, 2019September 28, 2019 Sunonline/Orillia

The workshop imparts information about the statue while attempting to get opinion on what to do about it.

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February 27, 2019September 28, 2019 Sunonline/Orillia Brownstone, Cellar Singers, City of Orillia, Geneva, Hibernation, Hog N Penny, Lake Country Grill, Lee Contemporary, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Concert Association, Orillia Vocal Ensemble, Peter Street Fine Arts, Roots North, St. James', St. Paul's, Tiffin's Creative Centre

Why is it people will pay 50 bucks to see a show at the Opera House by Joe Schmedly from Saskatoon and right up the street is something as good, if not better and there’s only a handful of people taking it in?

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Sounds Great

February 24, 2019September 28, 2019 Sunonline/Orillia Arts, Blair Bailey, Entertainement, John Swartz, St. Paul's

By John Swartz What makes a Steinway piano sound good?. When it was built and who is playing it. St.

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February 20, 2019September 28, 2019 Sunonline/Orillia Alphabreff, Bob Hawkins, Brownstone, Cellar Singers, Hibernation, Hog N Penny, Lake Country Grill, Lance Anderson, Lee Contemporary, OMAH, Opera House, Orillia Vocal Ensemble, OSB, Peter Street Fine Arts, Peter's Players, Roots North, Ross Love, St. James', St. Paul's, The Free Label, Tiffin's Creative Centre

It’s not really new, but it plays like new. It’s a refurbished Steinway concert grand, not one of those questionable Steinways made these days, but one from 1917,

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February 13, 2019September 28, 2019 Sunonline/Orillia Alphabreff, Bob Hawkins, Brownstone, CDC, Geneva, Hog N Penny, Lake Country Grill, Lance Anderson, Mariposa Arts, Mariposa Folk, Michael Martyn, Orillia Vocal Ensemble, OSB, Peter's Players, Ross Love, Rustica, St. Paul's, The Free Label, Zephyr

It’s so very hard to rank the 8 versions of the Gospel and Blues concerts, each has had its own unique moments (and several versions of Georgia), so I’ll just say this last one, being the freshest, was the best.