Mid September- Mid October Location: Entire Municaplity of Meaford . Downtown Meaford & Harbour Pavilion Thousands of scarecrows descend upon Meaford from mid-September to mid-October for the annual invasion. Come out on October 1st for a great night of family fun! The OPP Golden Helmets Motorcyle Precision Team kicks things off from 5:00 to 5:45 on Sykes [...]
The Frederick S. Haines Commemorative Exhibition Meaford, Ontario September 10 – 30, 2010 Frederick Stanley Haines: A Good Life Lived, an Enduring Legacy Left Frederick Stanley Haines, born in Meaford, March 29, 1879, died November 21, 1960 The exhibition will consist of approximately seventy-five works by Frederick S. Haines. There will be samples of his [...]
Where Scarecrow Lovers Eat We’ve been listening … NEW Comfortable Seating Arrangement Beautiful Garden Patio Famous for their Homemade Perogies & Romanian Cabbage Rolls Visit Bogusia’s at 36 Sykes St. S, in beautiful Meaford, Ontario, Canada. Featuring Green Tea with Honey Delicious Homemade European Soups Delicious Homemade Perogies Cabbage Rolls • Potato Salad Lasagna • Sausage on [...]
Russia announced a 12-month extension of its grain export ban on Thursday, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08 which spread through developing countries dependent on imports. The announcement by Vladimir Putin came as the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation called an emergency meeting to discuss the wheat shortage, [...]
Some years ago, John Yarbrough was working patrol for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. It was about two in the morning. He and his partner were in the Willowbrook section of South Central Los Angeles, and they pulled over a sports car. “Dark, nighttime, average stop,” Yarbrough recalls. “Patrol for me was like going [...]
While people in the US and elsewhere have been reacting to the release by WikiLeaks of classified US documents on the Afghan War, Chinese bloggers have been discussing the event in parallel with another in their own country. On July 21 in Beijing, four days before WikiLeaks published its documents, Chinese President Hu Jintao convened [...]
Thanks Brenda… Our message is going primetime! Animal Planet channel will be broadcasting the Oscar-winning movie, “The Cove”, this Sunday August 29th at 9 PM ET/PT. This is the US television premiere and the first chance for many to see “The Cove” and learn of its important message. And the story doesn’t end there. Animal Planet [...]
“Top Secret America” is a project nearly two years in the making that describes the huge national security buildup in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. When it comes to national security, all too often no expense is spared and few questions are asked – with the result an enterprise so massive [...]
The complexities of a simple tomato salad A summer tomato is a beautiful thing. Here's how you can make the most of every drop of flavor BY GAVIN FRITTON This entry for the Salon Kitchen Challenge — in which we asked readers to share their favorite tomato recipes — comes to us courtesy of Gavin [...]
Actress Mia Farrow is expected to testify next week at the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia who prosecutors allege funded a brutal civil war using blood diamonds. Her appearance is scheduled for Monday, according to the United Nations. It comes five days after supermodel Naomi Campbell also testified at [...]
“Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food” – Hippocrates. That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in the controversial new documentary film Food Matters from Producer-Directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch. With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs [...]
Big Think, a website that interviews scientists and experts in various fields has begun a month-long series called, “Dangerous Ideas” and the first post features drugging the public water supply. The expert they interviewed for this story is Jacob M. Appel, a bioethicist and medical historian, who has written in favor of adding lithium to [...]
Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same. Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found. They said [...]
NBC’s Matt Lauer has landed George W. Bush’s first one-on-one TV interview since Bush left the Oval Office in 2009. The interview, timed around the publication of Bush’s memoir, will air in primetime as a “Matt Lauer Reports” special on Monday, November 8. Bush’s book, Decision Points, will be released the next day, Tuesday November [...]
The Meaford Creative Arts Association presents ARTFEST…on the bay, Saturday, July 3rd from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, July 4th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. adjacent to the Harbour Pavilion. Come meet and chat with artists and artisans from Meaford and the surrounding area who will be showing and selling their original [...]
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