It’s the Easter Long Weekend and as it continues on there are a number of closures for Easter Sunday, April 21st, and Easter Monday, April 22nd, that you should know about. Firstly, most regions will have their curbside collection…
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Open And Closed Easter Sunday And Monday 2019
Posted in All Stories, News & Sports Tagged with: 2019, Administration, April 21, April 22, banks, beer store, Brantford, Burlington, Cambridge, closed, Easter, Hamilton, Kitchener, LCBO, Mall, Monday, Niagara, Open, Stores, Sunday, tourist, Transit, Waterloo
Simple Tips For Saving Money While Helping Fight Climate Change
Climate Change is a topic that is on almost everyone’s mind. Especially with the carbon tax and the recent report that Canada is heating up at twice the average Global rate. It is being constantly brought up and quite often in…
Posted in All Stories, News & Sports Tagged with: action, Canada, car, Carbon, Climate change, Emissions, Environment, food waste, Gas, health, Individual, money, News, Ontario, Plastics, savings, shopping, Vehicle
Freezing Rain Or Heavy Rain For Sunday April 14th 2019
Environment Canada has issued a Freezing Rain Warning and a Special Weather Statement regarding Heavy Rain and possible ponding, for your Sunday, mostly toward the evening. With some areas expected to get several hours of freezing rain and others up…
Posted in All Stories, News & Sports Tagged with: Brantford, Burlington, Cambridge, Canada, Environment, Freezing, Hamilton, heavy, Kitchener, Niagara, Oakville, Rain, special, St. Catharines, Statement, Warning, Waterloo, weather
Cows On The 401 Friday Night
Some late night drivers had an unusual situation to deal with which ended up shutting down sections of Highway 401 in Mississauga on Friday night after a collision involving a cattle carrier let loose several of the animals onto the…
Posted in All Stories, News & Sports Tagged with: Cattle, Collision, CowsLooseOnTheHighway, Friday, Highway 401, Hwy401, March 29, March 30, Mississauga, News, Saturday, traffic
Ontario Holding Regional Government Review Online Consultation
If you would like to have a say in the current Regional Government Review the question is open to the public right now as to what they want to see change, or stay the same, about their local governments in…
Posted in All Stories, News & Sports Tagged with: Amalgamation, Burlington, Cambridge, consultation, Durham, Government, Halton, Kitchener, Muskokas, Niagara, Oakville, online, Ontario, Oxford, PC, Peel, Review, Simcoe, St. Catharines, Waterloo, York
For Your St. Patrick’s Day Celebration Information
Happy St. Paddy’s! Yes, that’s right St. Patrick’s Day and St. Paddy’s are the proper ways of referring to the day. According to PaddyNotPatty.com Paddy is derived from the Irish, Pádraig. And for this day there are plenty of ways…
Posted in All Stories, Annoucer Blogs, Richard Huskisson Tagged with: Blessings, Canada, celebration, Fun., Heritage, Ireland, Irish, Movies, Music, recipe, St. Paddy's, St. Patrick's Day, Stew, Tradition
Lunchtime Trivia Friday, March 15
It might be a stereotype but we really do it quite often which is how we came up with Today’s Lunchtime Trivia Question: Canadians were doing this so much they had to create a law. What was it? The…
Posted in All Stories, Lunch Time Trivia Tagged with: 2019, Answer, apologize, apology, Apology Act, Canada, Canadians, Friday, Law, Lunchtime, LunchtimeTrivia, March 15, question, sorry, trivia
Special Weather Statement For Storms Thursday, March 14
Environment Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement for much of Southern Ontario, including all of the Golden Horseshoe, due to some potential heavy rainfall combining with snowmelt to create ponding issues in streets and low lying areas. The…
Posted in All Stories, News & Sports Tagged with: Canada, Environment, March 14, Ponding, Rain, Showers, special weather statement, Storms, Thunderstorms, Thursday, weather
Lunchtime Trivia Thursday, March 14
For Lunchtime Trivia Today we took to a recent bit of information for our Question: According to this report 72% of Canadians have no preferences when it comes to this. What is it? This report was even part of…
Posted in All Stories, Lunch Time Trivia Tagged with: 2019, 72%, Answer, Canadians, diet, Dietary, food, Food Guide, Lunchtime, LunchtimeTrivia, March 14, question, Restriction, Thursday, trivia
Rare Hockey Cards Up For Auction In Elmira
In what might be a good lesson to pay attention when your parents or grandparents offer you an old collection and give it a look; some rare hockey cards are going up for auction this Saturday at the Woowich Memorial…
Lunchtime Trivia Wednesday, March 13
Hopefully you weren’t too tired to have a little bit of fun with our Lunchtime Trivia Question of the day: If you’re a woman you are twice as likely than a man to be dealing with this today. What is…
Posted in All Stories, Lunch Time Trivia Tagged with: 2019, Answer, Insomnia, Lunchtime, LunchtimeTrivia, March 13, More likely, question, trivia, Wednesday, women
Lunchtime Trivia Tuesday, March 12
We got a little odd with our Question of the day asking everyone: These renew themselves over 5 times a year. What are they? When it comes to the Answer it might have had yours raising in surprise: Your…
Posted in All Stories, Lunch Time Trivia Tagged with: 2019, 5 times a year, Answer, Eyebrow, eyebrows, Grow Back, Lunchtime, LunchtimeTrivia, March 12, question, trivia, Tuesday
Lunchtime Trivia For Monday, March 11
We were asking about the kids Today with our Lunchtime Trivia Question: 40 odd years ago, 4 out of 10 kids had this in common, and Today it is 7 out of 10. What is it? With the changing…
Posted in All Stories, Lunch Time Trivia Tagged with: 1970, 2019, 4 out of 10, 7 out of 10, Answer, children, Dual Earners, kids, Lunchtime, March 11, Monday, parents, question, Today, trivia, Working
Senior Volunteers Sought After In Waterloo
The City of Waterloo is looking for volunteers to help local seniors. The City says there are a handful of opportunities currently, including becoming a ‘shopper escort’. That particular task would involve driving senior shoppers to the store and helping…
Posted in All Stories, News & Sports Tagged with: City of Waterloo, driver, help, kitchen, Senior, Shopper, shopping, Volunteer, Waterloo
Wind Warning Niagara Region High Winds Elsewhere Sunday March 10
The good news is any signs of Freezing Rain have passed, but there are high winds expected over the course of Sunday with gusts up to or exceeding 70 or 80 km/h which has led to the Special Weather Statements…
Posted in All Stories, News & Sports Tagged with: Caledonia, Canada, Environment, Haldimand], Niagara, Norfolk, Simcoe, southern-ontario, special weather statement, Warning, weather, wind
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Welland SPCA Mobile Spay/Neuter Clinic
April 20 @ 9:00 am - May 5 @ 9:00 am -
Annual Book Fair
April 24 @ 9:30 am - April 27 @ 8:00 pm -
The Brantford Symphony Orchestra’s Annual Book Fair
April 24 @ 9:30 am - April 27 @ 9:30 am -
Brantford Civic Centre Spring Carnival
April 25 @ 11:00 am - May 5 @ 11:00 pm -
Norfolk Potters’ Guild Spring Pottery Sale
April 26 @ 9:00 am - April 27 @ 6:00 pm
