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The Great Graffiti Paintout today

22 octubre 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, downtown-BIA, Collingwood life
[color="#000000"]Are you tired of that ugly tagging and graffiti defacing our beautiful, downtown heritage buildings? You can help get rid of it, and at the same time send a message that this sort of vandalism and visual pollution won't be tolerated here any more.

Paula Lehr has organized the Great Graffiti Paintout for today, from...

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Tags: BIA, Collingwood, downtown, graffiti, heritage 0 Comments


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A marketing idea for Collingwood and the downtown

01 septiembre 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in downtown-BIA, Collingwood life
I came across a marketing concept when I was last in Toronto and I think it could work very well here for both Collingwood and the BIA. Most of us are already familiar with the standard promotion racks that hold flyers and cards for local events, places to visit, visitor maps and so on. This is more of a downsized version, but in many ways more...

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Tags: Collingwood, downtown, marketing, promotion, BIA 1 Comments


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GBAR's Adopt-a-thon a success

30 agosto 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence, Collingwood life, Animals
Dropped by the Georgian Bay Animal Rescue's August Adopt-a-thon, Saturday. While I don't have the totals yet, the event was very successful, and several cats were adopted. What we intended as a few minutes' visit stretched into an hour or more, once we entered the cat...

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Tags: adopt-a-ton, GBAR, animals, Collingwood, cats 1 Comments


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Our growing culinary landscape

28 agosto 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence, Collingwood life
I think the only thing I ever really missed about the city when I moved up here was the variety of food we had within walking distance of our house in Toronto. We could walk to Vietnamese, Japanese, Indian, Greek, Korean, Italian and Szechuan restaurants, all within 10-15 minutes of home. A little further, but still not very far, we had Thai,...

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Tags: dining, restaurants, food, Collingwood, eating, sushi 15 Comments


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Adult chess club in Collingwood this fall

15 agosto 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Chess, Collingwood life, Social values
Just a heads up for those readers who enjoy playing chess, and like the ambiance of a chess club, with its social interaction. Tim DenBok is starting an adult chess club this fall at the Collingwood Library. It will meet weekly and, at least at the start, be no charge to join.

Should we collectively decide to join a national organization and...

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Debunking psychics

01 agosto 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, Science, Collingwood life
Why aren't all psychics filthy rich? I mean, if you can predict the future, surely something as basic as the stock market's rise and fall should be a snap. Surely they can predict the winning lottery numbers, too. I never buy lottery tickets because there's always a lineup of psychics ahead of me, cashing in their winnings. No wonder...

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Tags: psychics, superstition, Collingwood, debunk 2 Comments


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Wounded Warriors event a hit

01 agosto 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood life, downtown-BIA
Paul Thurston, of Thurst's Cycle, pulled off his third annual Riders With a Cause/Wounded Warriors event today, with a bigger crowd than ever before. More than 200 bikes joined his Sunday morning ride with the Armed Forces vehicles leading. When they got back to the Pine Street parking lot, the place was full of bikes, soldiers, and visitors....

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How to vote in the upcoming municipal election

27 julio 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood's municipal m..., Election 2010
No, I won't tell you who you should vote for. This is rather a reminder to everyone of how the process works. I'll post something like this again closer to the election.

First: you should vote. It's not mandatory, but it is a right you should not treat lightly, even in municipal elections.

Second: it's another mail-in ballot...

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Tags: Collingwood, municipal election, vote, candidates 0 Comments


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Music, music everywhere

27 julio 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood life, downtown-BIA, Music and ukuleles
Last week we had the chance to enjoy two really different types of music. Wednesday we went to the Station (aka the museum) for the weekly Jazz at the Station event. We watched Bobby Dean Blackburn, a great R&B and jazz pianist/vocalist with a drummer and two sax players. Free event, and well-attended, although Frank McNulty told me the crowd...

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Tags: Collingwood, jazz, Elvis, music 0 Comments


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Kids' chess club at Collingwood Library

02 mayo 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, Collingwood life
One of the lesser know successes in town is a small but rapidly growing chess club for kids and teens aged 7 to 18. Run by Tim denBok, this group meets every Thursday at the Collingwood Public Library, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. It's no cost to join, but participants have to register (call 444-5516).

Local sports always get a lot of attention and...

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Tags: chess club, kids, library, chess, Collingwood 3 Comments



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