Kelsey Carriere wants to talk to you about local goods and sustainable markets, and about the plan this summer to hook the two together in Wiarton

You ARE INVITED TO APPLY TO BECOME A FOUNDING VENDOR OF THE BRAND NEW WIARTON FARMERS' MARKET.
The Wiarton Farmers'Market will be held Friday afternoons from 3:00 to 8:00, May 30th to October 10th (20 weeks) in the parking lot just South of Town Hall on Berford Street. The initial season of this venture is sponsored by the Town of South Bruce Peninsula and will be run by an association of vendors and stake-holders in subsequent years.

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Or maybe the better word is 'snubbed'? We got up this morning in time to join the Prediction live over the international Wiarton Willie media coverage ...

• pulled up the willie website, and it was slow going to get it, but all it said was a few stock paragraphs about birds and flowers of spring and a link to someone's old video. the sidebar-link said "Willie Festival" but that lead us to the Town homepage where the one and only Willie icon link lead us right back to that canned blurb on spring!
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This is for all you groundhog paparazzi out there in cyberspaceland, you know who you are -- want to know what the 'hog is wearing this season? what his favourite cooler might be? what he's watching, reading, playing and listening to right now? Your wish has been granted!

"When the screen is dark, I am sleeping... zzzzzzzzzz. Come back in the morning Eastern Standard Time"
[ Wiarton Willie Live ]

"Consultant sees cash cow in albino groundhog; Proper branding could turn one day a year fame into a year-round marketing celebrity"

I see our council has now hired a consulting firm to market "The Rodent". What the hell is the matter with these people? Again wasting our tax dollars on a captured wild animal being imprisoned in a cage. We have a world class beach which can draw more people on a Friday afternoon in June than that rodent can attract in 5 years. Another waste of $$

Good to know that somebody out there still cares about our national scientific integrity in general and our local community health in particular, even if it is only just a bunch of students ... The Canadian Federation of Students go to court today seeking to coerce the NSERC watchdogs into actually watching the 'research' that wound its way into our municipal tap water:

I thought ex-councillor Kirkland bought the old Wiarton school property to build an senior's home and daycare centre. I also thought part of the building was to be saved. Now I see in the paper that the town gets $450,000 and a Tim's is going in. Maybe I'm confused about the properties. Can someone explain what is going on?
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This one from the Easter front page of the online Echo: Banff gets the odd moose, Churchill gets polar bears, Tokyo gets all sorts of kai-ju, and Wiarton? Wiarton gets monster wild turkeys! I knew all this talk of nuclear waste storage was going to get us into trouble ...

I just learned that due to weather the March 1st meeting is now on for March 15/07 at 7:00 pm at the Airport building. I encourage interested partied to attend.

I am wondering how many interested persons attented the Airport Commission meeting, and if they learned something new. I was unable to attend because I am a lucky Canuck; writing this piece from New Port Richey, Florida.