By Janis Ramsay Barrie Advance July 9 2013 Brown shades of soot are starting to tarnish a white tarp hanging on a 60-foot traditional teaching lodge at Springwater Provincial Park.The lodge — one of three constructed in the last decade in the Simcoe County area — was the gathering place for 74 aborig...

By Kate Harries AWARE News Network July 4 2013Springwater councillors Jack Hanna and Sandy McConkey are back as members of the residents liaison group on an environmental assessment for the Midhurst Secondary Plan. ...

By Danny Beaton First Nations Drum Newspaper June 2013Ontario has a very large number of tribes, natives, indigenous populations that have survived all forms of deceit so far from non native policies, agendas and activities. Yet the way things are going non natives might not survive from the deceit o...

Letter to AWARE Simcoe June 19 2013I am following the continual disregard that Mayor Collins and her Council displays to her electorate with regard to the  unbridled expansionary plans they have for us in Midhurst and Centre Vespra. ...

MRA news release June 17 2013Midhurst, Ontario – June 12, 2013 -  The momentum against the Midhurst Secondary Plan (MSP) is growing. The recent online petition started by the Midhurst Ratepayers’ Association (MRA), exposes Springwater Township's plans to sacrifice 756 hectares (only 150 hectares shy ...

From the Midhurst Ratepayers Association June 6 2013 The Midhurst Secondary Plan is a mega-development plan which seeks to turn a small rural village of 3,000 people to a small city of 30,000!  There are many downfalls to this plan that deserve your attention and support. ...

Several animals moved from the park earlier this week By Cheryl Browne, Barrie Examiner May 30, 2013SPRINGWATER TWP. - Teenagers climbing the fence of the white fox’s den made the native women at Springwater Provincial Park fear for the animals’ plight. ...

By Stephannie Johnson Cottage Country Now May 29 2013 Thirteen animals from Springwater Park Zoo, just north of Barrie, will now call Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary home.Today, nine of the 13 animals, ranging from an albino raccoon, lynx, and a black bear, have been moved from the park that closed i...

By Kate Harries AWARE News Network May 20 2013 A meeting last week has resulted in a political shift that may affect the future of 300 hectares of farmland in Springwater Township, presently due to be paved over. Under intense pressure at a three-hour public meeting on May 14, township officials agre...

‘We don’t want it – why are we doing it?”By Kate Harries AWARE News Network April 7 2013It was a 100-2 split at the Minesing meeting on the Midhurst mega-development on March 28.On one side, the approximately 100 residents who turned out for an information session organized by the Midhurst Ratepayers...