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Aug 8th, 2018
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2018 AWARE Simcoe questionnaire – Natalie Harris Barrie Advance Dear Barrie citizens, I hope to be elected to serve Ward 6 as its councillor and to be your experienced advocate for the City of Barrie. I am a mom of two children (ages 22 and 12) who have both grown up in the city of […]...
In Barrie
Aug 8th, 2018
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Lake Simcoe Watch response From Barrie Advance Over the next two months, you may have a few candidates at your door. You may receive a few different pieces of literature, hear different promises, different slogans. I ask you to consider the power of your vote. With that X, you are having your say on ...
In Barrie
Aug 8th, 2018
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Lake Simcoe Watch response from Barrie Advance Born and raised in Bracebridge, I attended the University of Western Ontario. In 1989 my family and I moved to Barrie on a company transfer from a major window and door manufacturer. Barrie has been a wonderful place for us to raise our children, and now...
Aug 8th, 2018
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Collingwood Connection My interest in being a member of town council originates, in part, from my educational background in community planning and urban studies. My early career was as a planner for the Metropolitan Toronto Planning Board, and then planner and director of public participation for the...
Aug 8th, 2018
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Orillia Today I grew up in Kleinburg, Ont., and trained to be an electrician at Alcan in Aurora. I married in 1972 and we have two daughters. I spent the last 22 years of my career at Canada’s Wonderland between 1981 and 2002. I retired to the Orillia area in 2004, living on the lake […]...
Aug 8th, 2018
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 Barrie Advance I feel fortunate to have lived in the Snow Valley area of Springwater Township for the past 25 years. I am seeking a council seat in Ward 4 which includes the communities of Grenfell, Snow Valley, Carson Ridge and Vespra Centre in this October’s municipal election. Council has t...
Aug 8th, 2018
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Midland Mirror For accountability, community involvement, dedication and future thinking — vote Jeff Bumstead! I was born and raised on Concession 6, now Newton Street, south of Victoria Harbour and am very happy to be living in the same area. My wife Wendy and I raised our two children here and we a...
Aug 8th, 2018
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Midland Mirror  I’m Ted Walker and I am asking for your consideration to vote for me as your next mayor. I have 43 years’ municipal administration experience which began in Victoria Harbour. My 34 years as chief administrative officer (CAO) for Port McNicoll, Tay Township, Georgian Bay Township, the ...
Aug 5th, 2018
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From the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust On August 18th the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust will be going head-to-head with Phragmites Australis, an invasive grass that grows so thick that turtles become trapped and die. “It’s an extremely fast-growing, invasive, non-native grass,” says George Powe...
Jul 30th, 2018
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Acclaimed: Tiny Mayor George Cornell, left, is one of two Simcoe County mayors to have been acclaimed. The other is Severn’s Mike Burkett. Here, Cornell is shown at last month’s Tiny Marsh BioBlitz, with writer Kate Harries, horticulture professor Lynn Short and indigenous teacher and aqu...