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Homeless ‘just regular people’ COMMUNITY: For 13-year-old Hannah Taylor of Winnipeg, helping the less fortunate is a passion that never ends

Nov 30th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
By IAN GILLESPIE Show me the word "homelessness" and I think of words like "hopeless" and "overwhelming." Because homelessness seems like such an intractable problem with so many causes -- including unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse, family violence and mental illness -- my instinctive reaction is to think it'll never be solved. But ... Full Story

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Twelve Songs of Christmas( I don’t want to hear)

Nov 30th, 2009 | By James Hillis | Category: Community
I saw Daddy kissing Santa ClausFrosty the hitmanI have an irregular heartbeat,pa rum papumm-pummIt's beginning to look a lot like PrisonOn the first day of Christmas...i maxed out my credit cardSilent fartChet's nuts roasting on an open fireSanta Claus is scamming this townFrosty my dopemanI'll be homeless for ChristmasRudolph Hess ... Full Story

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City Council is to blame.

Nov 30th, 2009 | By James Hillis | Category: Community
Note: Somehow this got deleted from an earlier date. So i am re-posting it.I know that Governments make a lot of mistakes and get blamed for some that they don\’t make, and so i have come up with a few things that i am blaming on the Mayor and his ... Full Story

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Reversal Haunts Federal Health Agency

Nov 30th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
By MIREYA NAVARRO Published: November 29, 2009 Earlier this month, a federal health agency backed away from its earlier findings that decades of explosive detonations by the Navy on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques posed no health hazards to residents. Environmental Protection Agency Cleanup of Vieques, site of blasts by the ... Full Story

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A 30 Year Tradition in Hespeler Santa Claus Parade Features over 55 Entries

Nov 30th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
A 30 Year Tradition in Hespeler Santa Claus Parade Features over 55 Entries   Cambridge, Ontario.  November 30, 2009...It might not have started in 1809 when Hespeler was first inhabited but it’s been a long standing part of the community for over three decades.  Thanks to the work of Russell and Peggy Bygrave, ... Full Story

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Sarge and smoking

Nov 30th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community, Editorial Cartoon
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“See YA later Doris” by Joe Lethbridge

Nov 29th, 2009 | By joe | Category: Arts & Entertainment, Community, Local Folks
This morning I woke up around 5:45 . I hadn\'t slept much at all . Sundays in this town are not the same. My regular cafe haunts are not open and for some resaon ;sitting at a Tim Hortons is not the same; but I needed a coffee. I have ... Full Story

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A Comment from Bev Mcdowall ( that deserved to be front and centre ..EXCELLENT IDEA)

Nov 29th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
If I was the Mayor of Cambridge, I would suggest a real cost savings idea. I would suggest that all of the money promised for Drayton ( 6 Million from the provincial gov. and 6 Million from the federal gov. ) be given instead to our hospital. 12 Million would ... Full Story

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Sarge, Attention Shoppers

Nov 28th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community, Editorial Cartoon
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Does Mr. Rooke have any rights?

Nov 28th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
My daughter died earlier this year.   She lived in her own apt. and died intestate at age 47.   She left balances owing on her overdraft, credit card and utilities.  Since her death, I have been receiving letters and phone calls from   Creditors demanding payment...I am under threat of Legal Action from Collection Agencies.   I ... Full Story

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