Ladies and Gentlemen
When it comes to April Fool’s jokes, it’s hard to beat a
dumping of snow and below zero temperatures. Ah Spring.
Monday
April 4th at 9:00 am Askennonia is holding its annual 55 Alive! Driver Refresher Course with Paul
Hamelin. It’s a full day course costing $30 including lunch. All
are welcome; pre-registration is required (705) 526-7609. Then at 10:00
am the Town will raise the world Autism Day flag at Town Hall.
Tuesday the 5th has a definite food theme. Peaceworks
is having a fund raiser for Doctors Without Borders. Join them for lunch at Explorers
restaurant at noon. Tickets are $20.00. Then for dinner it’s the first annual Mayors
Mac and Cheese dinner to raise funds for “We are the Villagers”. There are
three sittings – 4:30 5:45 and 7:00 pm – where you will be served by the mayors
and entertained by the children. Please
join us at the Library restaurant.
Wednesday’s theme is meetings. In the morning the mayors
meet to further their discussions on the GBGH funding situation. (More on that
below). At 1:00 pm at Town Hall the fibre optics committee meets to discuss its
recent request for quotation and how best to organize to bring fibre to our
area. At 6:00 pm I expect there to be a special closed meeting of Council to discuss
a personnel item, (This meeting has not yet been posted). And at 7:00 pm is the Planning and Development
Committee. The first part of the meeting will be a public meeting (you may speak)
on three topics:
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Zoning application for 711 Aberdeen (the second
condo-tower)
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Official Plan Amendment for the Midland Bay
Landing development
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The proposed Second Suites by-laws
Then we get into the regular planning meeting with:
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Discussion of the items covered in the public
meeting
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Site plan application for our new high school
– Georgian Bay District High School
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Downtown Community Improvement Plan (CIP)
On Thursday the 7th, area physicians will be
holding a “town hall” to discuss cutbacks at GBGH. The meeting takes place at
6:30 pm at Brian Orser arena in Penetanguishene. At 8:00 pm you are invited to the MCC to
listen to the swinging blues interpretations of Guy Davis the “Ambassador of the
Blues”.
Our Deputy Mayor, Mike Ross, is doing his best to bring
the video feed of the Blue Jays home opener to our new downtown public square
(aka 509 Bay). He is still working on the licensing permissions – stay tuned.
Weekend
Saturday
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9:00 pm Georgian College holds an Open House. Everyone is welcome to come out and see our
local college
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10:00 am to 3:00 pm Kingdom Hall holds an
Open House celebrating their new church renovations at 845 Yonge Street. All are welcome
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11:00 am Better Life Chiropratic opens its
new business at 226 King (at Bay)
Council Issues Update
GBGH
Our hospital, staff and doctors continue to work on implementing
many of the recommendations from the recent GBGH operational review. Any service level changes remain on hold.
In parallel, the mayors are pursuing a change to our
hospital funding formula. This change is essential if we are to get our
hospital out of its chronically underfunded situation. Talks have begun with the
mayors of five municipalities in North Simcoe – Muskoka. The Ontario Hospital
Association is also proving assistance. All these efforts are directed to
convincing the Ministry that a different approach to funding is needed to ensure
appropriate hospital services remain in small town Ontario.
Gord McKay
Your
Year for Getting Aboard – Midland is on the Move - 2016
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