November 26, 2008 / Front Page

News

Region calls for health risk assessments for all potential peaking plant sites

If you're going to put a peaking power plant in northern York Region, you had better conduct human health and environmental risk assessments for the site. More...

Experts gather at Koffler to discuss Species at Risk Act

If changes are needed to the Species at Risk Act (SARA), the place where they've been identified might be in King. More...

Region to hold final meeting on Transportation Plan

York Region will conduct the last meeting in its final series of public consultations tomorrow (Thursday), as part of the process to update the its Transportation Master Plan. More...

Columns

Bill's Bulletin Board

I'm really of two minds over the issue of whether government should bail out the North American auto industry. As my late mother never missed an opportunity to point out to me, I'm a capitalist. More...

Editorial

Proposed rules should improve safety, but do they go too far?

We can certainly understand the motivation behind the new tougher driving rules that were put forth last week by the provincial government, especially in the way they impact on young drivers. More...

Letters

Councillor Laidlaw responds to last week's letter

The following letter is in response to the letter from June MacIntyre, which was published in the Nov. 19 edition of the sentinel. More...

Vandals earned his wrath

The lack of consideration, respect and common decency shown by a segment of our youth population never ceases to disgust me. Such was my reaction at the sight that greeted me last Wednesday on the Humber Trails. More...

King's Corners

King's Corners

Have lunch with Santa Claus at King City United Church Dec. 13

King Bible Church Overtimers Submitted by Lisa Lethangue Join us Dec. 2 as we enjoy our special Christmas meeting. This year we are featuring The Venables, who are a Salvation Army family. More...

Nobleton Notes

Nobleton Notes

Catholic Women's league marking 10 years with celebration tonight

By Angie Maccarone (905) 859-5174 Nobleton Skating Club The Nobleton Skating Club will be accepting registrations for the upcoming winter session. Registration will take place Dec. 6, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Dec. More...

Councillors get some capital budget figures to crunch

It's still very preliminary, but King councillors last week were given some proposed capital budget numbers for the coming year. The latest figures, provided by municipal staff, call for about $17.04 million in capital spending. More...

Special meeting tonight

The King Township Heritage Committee would like to invite the public to attend a special meeting and workshop tonight (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. at King Township Museum. More...

Community

Free diabetes clinic coming tomorrow

A Live Well Diabetes Clinic is planned for tomorrow (Thursday) at Nobleton Pharmasave. It will run from 1 until 6 p.m. Diabetes affects one in every 10 people, and half of those with the disease don't even know they have it. More...

Emmanuel Presbyterian Church holding bake sale and luncheon on Main Street

Emmanuel Presbyterian Church on Main Street in Schomberg is starting its second century of worship and service to the community with several events and projects of interest to all. More...

Firefighters hosting magic show this Saturday

The King City Firefighters' Association will be sponsoring a fundraiser next Saturday (Nov. 29). It will be from 1 to 4 p.m. at All Saints' Anglican Church on Keele Street in King City. More...

Sports Beat

Junior Lions great season ends to powering Thunder

The King City junior Lions have nothing to hang their heads about. They are the champions of York Region. More...

Schomberg play Jekyll and Hyde, splitting two different games

Against two of the Georgian Mid-Ontario Junior 'C' Hockey League teams, the Schomberg Cougars played Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. First it was Dr. Jekyll against the Erin Shamrocks, winning 8-6, at the Schomberg Community Arena Thursday. More...

Coach's Corner

From the front office: Schomberg have set a date of Dec. 1 to decide which of their three goaltenders (Ryan Wadden, Mike Platten and Michael Platten) will be cut from the team for the season. More...