BARRIE — The Simcoe Muskoka District Board of Health was able to keep at risk jobs, while approving a $28.9 million budget. In minutes from their Feb. 21 meeting, they say the 2018 budget represents a half percentage point increase over 2017. Using some surplus funds from last year, they “retained more than three full […]
HUNTSVILLE — Local lobbying efforts have paid off long-term in Muskoka. Ontario is opening 20 new long-term care beds in Huntsville to help seniors access the care they need, closer to home. They are in addition to 76 existing beds at Fairvern Nursing Home that will be “redeveloped” to create 96-bed home. In a release […]
PYEONCHANG — A Paralympian who grew up in Muskoka was on the podium here in South Korea Friday. Collin Cameron won bronze in the sitting 15K race. Cameron was born in Barrie, but raised in towns throughout Muskoka including Baysville, Port Sydney, and Huntsville, before moving to Bracebridge where his parents live today. Born with arthrogryposis, […]
Would one hospital solve an acute nursing shortage in Muskoka? One has to wonder as Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare hosts recruitment fair Saturday March 24. Wasn’t it just New Year’s when they were 17 short, due to overcrowding and underfunding from the province? Shouldn’t MAHC have a long list of nurses on file they can call […]
DEAR EDITOR: This Muskoka girl is in sunny Florida at the moment and I thought I would share this with northern readers to warm you people up a bit. This really made yesterday special. I was at the southern end of Amelia Island, at Peters Point, which is located in north Florida on the Atlantic […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Bracebridge residents can now confirm that they are on the voters’ list for the municipal election on October 22, 2018 at www.VoterLookup.ca. VoterLookup.ca is an online service developed by the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) to build and maintain information that will be used in preparing the final Voters Lists used across Ontario […]
The PC Part now has Doug Ford as undisputed leader. Ontario is governed by Premier Kathleen Wynne. New Democrats are led by Andrea Horwath. The Green Party leader is Mike Schreiner. Only Ford is new Thursday June 7 when the provincial election takes place. Who do you like? Who do you want to win? Who […]
ORILLIA — The death of an aggregate worker here pulled into a machine while cleaning it last winter, has led to a $170,000 fine for the owner of the employer he worked for. Following a guilty plea, Justice of the Peace Neil Burgess on Monday fined Walker Aggregates Inc., of Niagara Falls, in Orillia court. […]