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Some tips to stay healthy this winter

Some tips to stay healthy this winter

The following advice, given by Dr. Oz, makes a lot of sense and is important for all to know:

The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/throat. In a global epidemic of this nature, it’s almost impossible to avoid coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not [...]

Old Trick Threatens the Newest Weapons

Old Trick Threatens the Newest Weapons

By JOHN MARKOFF-
Despite a six-year effort to build trusted computer chips for military systems, the Pentagon now manufactures in secure facilities run by American companies only about 2 percent of the more than $3.5 billion of integrated circuits bought annually for use in military gear.
That shortfall is viewed with concern by current and former United States [...]

The Gift of Dyslexia

The Gift of Dyslexia

Why Some of the Smartest People Can’t Read and How They Can Learn!
This is an 8 hour video course (on 4 two hour tapes) to assist parents, teachers and volunteers in helping their children or adult loved ones correct dyslexia through symbol mastery. By following the easy, step by step directions on these tapes, [...]

Dragons’ Den Meaford – Winners Announced

Dragons’ Den Meaford – Winners Announced

From infancy to death… Ideas came from all over the spectrum at this evening’s first ever Dragons’ Den Meaford event in front of a packed house at Meaford Hall. It was also a very lucrative evening for more than a few of the seven contestants who pitched their business ideas for the Municipality of Meaford [...]

Piper’s Restaurant & Tavern

Piper’s Restaurant & Tavern

A wee bit of Scotland …in the Town of Thornbury
Open for breakfast 8:00am on Sat & Sun only
…and lunch and dinner seven days a week!
Watch for upcoming events and features. Don’t forget to check out our photo gallery.
Piper’s Restaurant & Tavern is now entering its seventh year of operation. It is owned and operated by Joe Macdonald. We [...]

Events @your Library

Events @your Library

Words will fly at the First Annual Georgian Bay Reads Book Fight Night

Creemore, Ontario – October 24th, 2009 – Ever wonder what words look like when they fly off the page and take to the stage? Find out at the first annual Georgian Bay Reads Book Fight Night taking place at the Station on the [...]

Harper: First the Song, Now the Dance

Harper: First the Song, Now the Dance

Just caught a few moments of Steve Paikins show “Agenda on TVO”. Some of the brightest scientific minds we’regathered to share their knowledge about space exploration.
Are We Bound For Space? Please check it out, it was fascinating , to say the least… www.tvo.org
Available as a podcast!!!
By Gwendolyn -
When someone as respected and intelligent as Steve Paikin [...]

Still No Audited Financial Statements for 2008

Still No Audited Financial Statements for 2008

By Stephen Vance -
Where are the 2008 audited financials?
The question was asked again by Councillor Jim McPherson on Tuesday night, and once again the reply was, well…”soon”.
It is somewhat baffling why in the middle of October we still haven’t seen the audited financial statements for the 2008 budget year.
CAO Frank Miele has after all repeatedly [...]

Meaford Golf & Country Club

Meaford Golf & Country Club

Meaford Golf Course 75th Year

This mature 18 hole golf course first opened in 1934 and is nestled on the shore of Georgian Bay between Owen Sound and Collingwood Ontario. Meaford can be reached from Toronto by car in just over two hours.
Golf Course Features
This golf course features 14 strategically placed ponds and 3 natural creeks [...]

Canadian researchers make breast cancer breakthrough

Canadian researchers make breast cancer breakthrough

By Carly Weeks -
Globe and Mail Update

The possibility of using a patient’s genetic information to create personalized therapies to battle cancer is one step closer to reality after Canadian scientists decoded, for the first time, the entire genome of a patient’s metastatic breast cancer.
It’s a landmark achievement that is helping to rewrite old notions about [...]

World Watches Odyssey of ‘Balloon Boy’ in real time

World Watches Odyssey of ‘Balloon Boy’ in real time

The whole world watched Thursday as a lighter-than-air craft set loose by a 6-year-old boy floated above eastern Colorado.
Web sites as diverse as Al-Jazeera and Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald carried news of the wayward aircraft with reports that authorities feared the boy, Falcon Heene, was inside.
The Web sites for The Sun, Britain’s largest newspaper, as [...]

We Love BVO

We Love BVO

and more importantly, the people that volunteer there…

On a personal note:
I happened to drop into BVO today, and like most days I have had the pleasure to attend, there was my friend Mary Johnston charming the crowd as usual.
I was chatting with three gentleman from Mexico and with my extensive knowledge of spanish (dous corona [...]

New Solar Farm Can Provide Power for 1,000 Homes

New Solar Farm Can Provide Power for 1,000 Homes

STONE MILLS, Ont.–Construction manager Michael Henderson beams with pride as he gazes out at a black sea of 126,040 solar panels, each resting majestically against 36 hectares of south-sloping terrain.
Canada’s largest solar generating station, called First Light, made history on Sept. 26, when at 10:16 a.m. it became the first multi-megawatt solar farm in the [...]

As Americans Stop Buying, Trade Deficit Declines

As Americans Stop Buying, Trade Deficit Declines

WASHINGTON — Dire warnings about the need for Americans to save more and spend less didn’t work. Nagging China, Japan and Germany to buy more American products didn’t work.
No matter how much economists and political leaders warned about huge global trade imbalances and the astronomical foreign debt of the United States, American consumers kept buying [...]

Bognor Hall Hallowe’en Costume Party

Bognor Hall Hallowe’en Costume Party

The Georgian Theatre Festival is pleased to present the Bognor Hall, Hallowe’en Costume Party with The Weatheralls starting at 7 p.m. October 24th
Tickets: $10
Available at Meaford & District Chamber of Commerce, Stuff To Read, Bognor Hall

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Fight World Hunger

Fighting World Hunger

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