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November 26, 2008  RSS feed

Meg Tilly speaks of her past and inspires youth for their future
Former actress and current author Meg Tilly talked about writing, acting and a grim past to students at King City Branch of the King Township Public Library last week. Tilly is best known for her roles in The Big Chill and Agnes of God — for which she won a Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actress, as well as an Academy Award nomination. More...
Councillors get some capital budget figures to crunch
By Bill Rea

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. But the plan is to fund approximately $1.48 million of that through taxes. The rest would come from reserves, grants and other sources. 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. This meeting will feature guest speaker Sally Drummond, heritage resource officer for the Town of Caledon. More...

 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. York Regional council approved imposing that requirement on companies seeking to establish such a plant in the area at its meeting Thursday. More...
• article has image Experts gather at Koffler to discuss Species at Risk Act
• Region to hold final meeting on Transportation Plan
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 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
• Firefighters hosting magic show this Saturday
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 Columns
• article has image 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...
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 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. Young people can be excused if they sometimes feel put-upon by the rest of society, being forced to answer for the sins of some of their more irresponsible fellows. More...
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 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. The letter (I) distributed to residents is intended to deal exclusively with the issue of connection at each home and on each street. More...
• Vandals earned his wrath
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 Sports Beat
• article has image 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. Unfortunately they came up short in the Ontario Regional Junior Football Championship South-west semifinal against the Blessed Trinity Thunder of Grimsby (Niagara Region), 22-7, at St. Michael's College's Eugene Melnyk Sports Field in Toronto Saturday. More...
• article has image Schomberg play Jekyll and Hyde, splitting two different games
• Coach's Corner
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 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. They will be blessing us musically, both by song and instruments, and by speaking to us from God's Word about the true meaning of Christmas. More...
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 Nobleton Notes
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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. 8, from 4 to 8 p.m., and Dec. 10 from 4 to 8 p.m. To register, come to the skating club office, located opposite dressing room 1. More...
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