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Having a ball for vets

Article online since August 3rd 2008
Elyse Amend elyse.amend@transcontinental.ca When the idea for a veteran’s ball came up last year at the Ste. Anne’s Hospital Foundation, no one thought then the event celebrating the hospital’s 90th anniversary would become an annual affair. “The reason we did that was not to have...

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Time travelling the easy way

Upper Canada Village brings history to life

Article online since July 21st 2008
Elyse Amend elyse.amend@transcontinental.ca Families won’t need a time machine to take a trip through the 19th century this summer. As a matter of fact, it’ll only take you about a 90 minute drive. Located in Morrisburg, Ontario, Upper Canada Village is an outdoor living museum that...

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Dorval businesses get onboard recycling pilot project

Program may be expanded city-wide

Article online since July 19th 2008
Elyse Amend elyse.amend@transcontinental.ca Just over 50 businesses on Lakeshore Drive and Dorval Avenue will be keeping landfills a little emptier thanks to a recycling pilot project the City of Dorval started last week. According to the city’s communication officer Sébastien Gauthier,...

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Cities ink punishing bylaw to quell graffiti

Article online since July 17th 2008
Elyse Amend elyse.amend@transcontinental.ca Kirkland and Baie d’Urfé are looking to put a cap on graffiti. At their monthly council meetings last week, the two municipalities put forward a notice of motion looking to amend their nuisance bylaws to make possessing and transporting materials...

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A tempting Tempest takes over local parks

Repercussion Theatre celebrates their 20th season

Article online since July 16th 2008
Elyse Amend elyse.amend@transcontinental.ca Twenty years after putting on their first four productions of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for about 800 spectators, Repercussion Theatre is back this season to regale audiences with their outdoor Theatre in the Parks performances...

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