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July 29, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Constance Scrafield What are the duties and obligations that a town council has to its residents, the people who elected those members, to fulfill them? Is a town a business or responsible to people first? These were primary questions Councillor Todd Taylor brought to bear during an interview with the Citizen last week. We were sitting in a patio, sun overhead, enjoying a coffee at one of the fine coffee houses on Broadway. Coun. Taylor’s position with the town is part of the overhaul from the las...

July 29, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Constance Scrafield After 70 years in the church, Pastor Don Fitchett passed away on July 18. His influence and mentorship have mattered to a great many people who will miss him as pillar here in Orangeville and further afield. Pastor Fitchett was a big part of the move for Orangeville Baptist Church from the small church on Zina, where congregations had been attending for over 100 years. There was reluctance to give the location up but, by 1988, Pastor Fitchett persuaded the members to move, to bui...

July 29, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Constance Scrafield When Artistic Director, David Nairn says “We’re very busy here at Theatre Orangeville,” he means it ­more than ever. Let us begin this feature, then, to give you the complete schedule: The Third Life of Eddie Mann, a play by John Spurway, produced online in the same format as The Rules of Playing Risk, runs on your big screen television from July 30 to August 15. Mr. Spurway’s one act play brings a man on the edge, to sit on a window ledge contemplating a jump, when “A...

July 15, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Constance Scrafield “Arthur J. Peabody is a play that I wrote last year to enter into a Summer Short Play festival,” said Amanda Dempsey-Laughlin. “I had thought of something like it, so, I sat down and I wrote and, right away, I thought about who I wanted in my cast. My daughter, Victoria, of course, as Jamima.” Jamima is the teen age girl who meets Arthur J. Peabody, a talking, Shakespeare quoting, well-travelled British bird. “And then, Desmond [Baxter] was perfect as Arthur; the third ...

July 8, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Constance Scrafield Jas. F Hope Construction Ltd. has been based in Orangeville for 40 years, with Jim F. Hope being the fourth-generation owner and his son will eventually be the fifth. He told the Citizen, “I am the only person who does historical restorations. My father built CIBC banks.” Although Jas. F. Hope Construction was Est. 1954, the family has been in the building business much longer than that. “My father [also] built houses. I took it over in ’83. We do interiors and we are losi...