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Tireless worker finally recognized. Tymstra given the Rotary Paul Harris Fellow Award. Congratulations.
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Bear was killed – public now critical of police. It was a job that had to be done and the police did it. Thank them.
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What does the brutal murder of a delightful, inquisitve friendly little eight year old girl do to a community? How does it recover?
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Good police work means putting the pieces of the puzzle together. Halton Regional Police doing just that – can you help?
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More than half the commercial vehicles pulled over for inspection fail; police tag and tow 52 of them.
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Local amateur historian to meet the Prince of Wales – given the chance he might tell the Prince about the role Burlington played in 1812 War.
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Transit gets an interim fix up – a patch to hold the system together financially until Master Plan is completed. Expect a lot of waiting.
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Halton police shoot Black Bear sighted in the Mountainside community. School children never at risk
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More pressure to give the public access to the lakefront. St. Paul Street resident wants to see some action.
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The trial is over, impact statements given, the sentence delivered and they all leave the Courtroom for the last time. Now what?
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Prev NextTireless worker finally recognized. Tymstra given the Rotary Paul Harris Fellow Award. Congratulations.
By Pepper Parr BURLINGTON, ON May 19, 2012 The Rotary Club of Burlington Central did something recently that should have been done some time ago, which was to recognize Deb Tymstra for the...
Bear was killed – public now critical of police. It was a job that had to be done and the police did it. Thank them.
By Pepper Parr BURLINGTON, ON May 19, 2012 You’re sometimes damned if you do and double damned if you don’t. There was a black bear the police had to shoot in the woods around Mountainside...
What does the brutal murder of a delightful, inquisitve friendly little eight year old girl do to a community? How does it recover?
Part 11 This series is a first person account, told by a parent who has lived through the fear and pain that rocked Woodstock when an eight year old girl was abducted on her way home from school and...
Good police work means putting the pieces of the puzzle together. Halton Regional Police doing just that – can you help?
By Pepper Parr BURLINGTON, ON May 18, 2012 The Burlington detachment of the Halton Regional police have noticed a string of disturbing incidents involving young students and think there might...
More than half the commercial vehicles pulled over for inspection fail; police tag and tow 52 of them.
By Staff BURLINGTON, ON May 17, 2012 On Tuesday May 15th and Wednesday the 16th 2012, the Halton Regional Police Service in partnership with the Ontario Provincial Police, Peel Regional Police,...
Local amateur historian to meet the Prince of Wales – given the chance he might tell the Prince about the role Burlington played in 1812 War.
By Pepper Parr BURLINGTON, ON May 17, 2012 As a kid, I knew it as 24th of May – firecracker day. For Rick Wilson it will certainly be a crackerjack day. He will be meeting the Prince of...
Transit gets an interim fix up – a patch to hold the system together financially until Master Plan is completed. Expect a lot of waiting.
By Pepper Parr BURLINGTON, ON May 17, 2012 Transit got a kiss and a promise, and had half a million taken out of one pocket and put in another last week, as four “underused” routes had...
Halton police shoot Black Bear sighted in the Mountainside community. School children never at risk
By Staff. BURLINGTON, ON May 16, 2012 Seeing a black bear in the community was more than two Burlington residents expected earlier this morning. A quick call was put into the police and that...
More pressure to give the public access to the lakefront. St. Paul Street resident wants to see some action.
By Pepper Parr BURLINGTON, ON May 16, 2016 Good ideas just don’t go away. James Ziegler wants to see a new link added to the Waterfront Trail and is interested in being part of any...
The trial is over, impact statements given, the sentence delivered and they all leave the Courtroom for the last time. Now what?
Part 10 This series is a first person account, told by a parent who has lived through the fear and pain that rocked Woodstock when an eight year old girl was abducted on her way home from school and...
LaSalle Park Marina takes their Vision 2012 to a public information session – this is something the community should applaud.
By Pepper Parr BURLINGTON, ON May 15, 2012 It’s a laudable objective – have the public marina at LaSalle Park become the 400th Safe Harbour in Ontario. Burlington is one of the very last...
Region offers residents opportunity to become MVP’s – not what you think it is – but it won’t hurt you.
By Pepper Parr BURLINGTON, ON May 14, 2012 An MVP – usually means Most Valuable Player but the Regional government has given it a bit of a twist and is calling for residents with a “my point...
Mayor takes a vacation – expects to return rested and inspired. Will be reading The Spark, the Flame, and the Torch; heavy stuff.
By Pepper Parr BURLINGTON, ON May 13, 2012 The Mayor is on vacation so don’t expect to see him cutting a ribbon somewhere or meeting with citizens and listening intently to what they have to...
Environmentalists gather in Hamilton to talk up the mess the Great Lakes are in; Hamilton as good a place as any to begin the clean-up.
By Pepper Parr BURLINGTON, ON May 13, 2012 They could have and perhaps should have held the event in Burlington but instead they are holding it in Hamilton. While we are a Burlington...
The murder trial of their daughter ready to go to a jury; Tori’s Mother and Father struggle to cope. They succeed.
Part 8 This series is a first person account, told by a parent who has lived through the fear and pain that rocked Woodstock when an eight year old girl was abducted on her way home from school and...
They haven`t walked off the earth but they are going to be on the OLG stage – June 17th 3:45 pm. We told you that two weeks ago didn’t we?
By Pepper Parr You heard it here first – Walk off the Earth will appear on the OLG stage June 17th at 3:45 pm. That’s what 110 million YouTube hits and a slot on ELLEN will get you. What...
Chivalry will be on display at city council with two knights now at the horse shoe.
By Pepper Parr On Sunday “The Queen” will create two new Knights of the Realm and we will see Sir Paul of Sherwood and Sir Rick of Aldershot made knights as part of a visit the “Queen” is...
The cyber crooks never stop; they are relentless. The best defence you have is to be vigilant.
By Pepper Parr BURLINGTON, ON May 12, 2012 The email said I had recently changed my Facebook password. I didn’t change that password and the email message was not from Facebook – but it...
Guilty, guilty, guilty – he will rot in that prison. Tori Stafford’s murderer to be formally sentenced next week.
Part 9 This series is a first person account, told by a parent who has lived through the fear and pain that rocked Woodstock when an eight year old girl was abducted on her way home from school and...
Suspects arrested. Now for the trial. We expected it to be a simple case of convicting – little did we know.
Part 7 This series is a first person account, told by a parent who has lived through the fear and pain that rocked Woodstock when an eight year old girl was abducted on her way home from school and...
