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Ways To Help Our Friends In Haiti’s Tragedy

Ways To Help Our Friends In Haiti’s Tragedy

Here is a compiled list of other ways to help from CTV News.

Following is a list of links to Canadian organizations that have a track record of providing aid to Haiti:

Canadian Red Cross

The Canadian arm of the international aid and medical relief organization works around the world through the federation of Red Cross and Red [...]

Georgian Theatre Festival Presents George Hamilton IV

Georgian Theatre Festival Presents George Hamilton IV

The Georgian Theatre Festival is having another musical event.
This time, it is a concert at Meaford United Church starring the renowned George Hamilton IV.
Mr. Hamilton has long been associated with country music and gospel. He sings regularly at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville and tours in country shows throughout the USA , the UK and [...]

Citizen’s Task Force survey – commissioned by the Municipality of Meaford

Citizen’s Task Force survey – commissioned by the Municipality of Meaford

www.meafordhall.ca
Sitting proudly at the centre of Meaford for the past century, Meaford Hall belongs to everyone. In an effort to build upon the Hall’s programming and the role it plays in the broader community, the Municipality of Meaford has asked a group of local citizens (Citizens Task Force) to assist in reaching out for ideas [...]

Service Excellence Training

Service Excellence Training

We had such an amazing response to our last Service Excellence Training that we have been given the opportunity to do it again.
$30 + GST is an amazing deal for this interactive Customer Service training opportunity. The session is being held this Friday March 12 at theThornbury Library. As before, lunch will be included.
The class is [...]

World Water Day at the Elmvale Community Centre March 28

World Water Day at the Elmvale Community Centre March 28

ELMVALE ONTARIO –  Building on the United Nation’s 2010 World Water Day (WWD) theme of Clean Water for a Healthy World, the Elmvale Foundation (EF) will be hosting World Water Day at the Elmvale Community Centre March 28: A morning Town Hall session  9:00 a.m.- 12:00 on the… “future management of waste and it’s impact [...]

Michal Fialkowski Rips it up at Blue

Michal Fialkowski Rips it up at Blue

Michal Fialkowski does some snowboarding tricks at the famous “Blue Mountain” in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada.
Videos coming soon…

Thank you, Canada

Thank you, Canada

Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor

Thank you, Canada:
For being such good hosts.
For your unfailing courtesy.
For your (mostly) beautiful weather.
For scheduling no more than 60 percent of your float plane departures at the exact moment when I was trying to say something on television.
For not seeming to mind the occasional (or constant) good-natured mimicry of your [...]

SeaWorld is blaming the victim

SeaWorld is blaming the victim

OUTRAGEOUS!
SeaWorld is blaming the victim — their trainer who let her ponytail swing into the water — while the real negligence lies with them. They knew the whale Tilicum had a history of attacks against people, but they chose profit over the safety of whales and people.
It is time for a federal investigation of their [...]

New, used and consignment furniture at Yaardsale prices

New, used and consignment furniture at Yaardsale prices

yaardsale.com
What We Take
Our primary function is to sell your furniture, and we hope you’ll appreciate that not everything you have can be chosen for display. Yaardsale looks for better quality home furnishings ranging from very old to almost new. Wingback and accent chairs are popular sellers, as are sofas and settees, dining sets, accent and [...]

The Eureka Exchange brings together green innovations

The Eureka Exchange brings together green innovations

The launch of the Eureka Exchange and goingforthegreen.net is your gateway to network, learn how to accelerate innovation and green your productivity – to do better with less©.
By small business for small business The Eureka Exchange brings together green innovations, green technologies, and ideas geared to enhance productivity for small and medium-sized businesses. The value-add – a [...]

Fairways – fun for kids of all ages

Fairways – fun for kids of all ages

$49.99 – Fun & Games Special
for The Whole Family

THE PARTY PLACE
is fun for kids of all ages
You and your family or friends will receive:

2 Hours of Big Screen Games
12″ Pepperoni Pizza
2 Pounds of Wings
1 Pitcher of Pop

Fun at Fairways
Nintendo Wii on 4 large screens, Play bowling, tennis, Winter Olympic events, Quitar Hero, Dance Party, Rock [...]

Community Dinner

Community Dinner

Join us for a good meal and good company…
Soupor Meal -Meaford Community Centre 5 p.m. All welcome.
Bring a friend, a neighbour your family just come join us.
More info call Barbara  519-538-4726.
Thanks to George Thompson for sending this…

The food additive MSG (Mono-Sodium Glutamate) is a slow poison

The food additive MSG (Mono-Sodium Glutamate) is a slow poison

This is about FOOD and how it is making us sick.
There is a new film coming out this summer and here is the trailer.
http://www.alsearsmd.com/food-inc-trailer.html
MSG improves the flavor and keeps the color vibrant, as least that’s why it is used in cooking.  Where are the doctors at health Canada? They’re too busy fighting the natural supplements I guess!  Why [...]

“The Cove” – Save Japan Dolphins

“The Cove” – Save Japan Dolphins

The past few months have been intense.  We have had early successes – a temporary ban on killing bottlenose dolphins, extensive coverage in the Japanese media, and the first revelations of the extent of mercury poisoning in residents of Taiji.   All of this was accomplished while the film was in just a few theaters.
The Oscars [...]

Your Brain on Happiness

Your Brain on Happiness

Circuits in your brain light up when you’re happy. One groundbreaking researcher has discovered how to keep them lit.
There are no dark corners in Madison, Wisconsin, a university town that sparkles with endowment and research dollars—more than $900 million last year—as well as just plain Midwestern niceness. The grants are well earned: It was at [...]

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Fight World Hunger

Fighting World Hunger

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