http://www.mindentimes.ca Recent Local News en-us Copyright: (c) 2012 www.mindentimes.ca, All rights reserved. http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3564577 Ryan Getzlaf was sick about it. "It's a sick way to lose, a tough way to lose," said the latest Captain Canada. A deflection by Michal Handzus following a controversial five-minute kneeing penalty to Getzlaf gave Slovakia a late 4-3 win in the quarterfinal here Thursday.[...] Thu, 17 May 2012 13:06:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3564577 129817335600000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562526 Peter Oyler and Dale Walker of the Haliburton Highlands Health Services Foundation were excited that Beaverbrook Golf Club owner Dave Stevens made this putt, but even more excited when he donated $1,000 to the foundation last week.[...] Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562526 129816144000000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562527 It looks like Minden Hills township will be changing its agreement with the Haliburton County Snowmobile Association regarding the conversion of the snowmobile bridge/dock spanning the Gull River in Minden.[...] Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562527 129816144000000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562534 THE PHOTOGRAPH SNATCHES me out of the here and now into a place and time so foreign and remote it might be a relic from some lost civilization.  Pictures just like it are on restaurant walls and in photo albums all over rural Ontario.[...] Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562534 129816144000000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562538 KUDOS TO MINDEN Hills Ward 3 Councillor Jean Neville. Thanks to Neville, the township’s three satellite community centres in Gelert, Lochlin and Irondale were part of last week’s conversation about what council should do with a whopping 2011 surplus of nearly $550,000.[...] Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562538 129816144000000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562542 Handsewn blankets from the Highlands are spreading the warmth of love far beyond the county borders With busy hands creating blankets for the Knitting for Warmth outreach project, the boisterous volunteer group sits around a square table, keeping the conversation at a steady rhythm, interspersed [...] Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562542 129816144000000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562549 Jason Sheppard has been putting together bicycles since he was seven. “My uncle was a garbage man,” he says. “He’d always bring home bike parts for me.” Sheppard, 34, recently opened Highlands Cyclery in the Thurston Building on the corner of Bobcaygeon Road and Water Street in downtown Minden.[...] Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562549 129816144000000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562552 They came from Britain to Canada by the thousands. Between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they were brought to this country supposedly to free them from impoverished lives in Europe. Some were ripped away from their families.[...] Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562552 129816144000000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562555 It’s a shame you can’t award goals for effort. The Red Hawks senior soccer team would be poised for a playoff berth if this were the case, as they would have beaten the visiting Lindsay Collegiate Vocational Institute Spartans instead of dropping a 3-1 loss at home on Monday, May 14.[...] Tue, 15 May 2012 21:14:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562555 129815900400000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562546 Minden Hills township will be entering into an agreement with Haliburton County on a joint EMS base/fire hall on the former Walker’s Auto Repair property in Minden.[...] Tue, 15 May 2012 21:08:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562546 129815896800000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562545 The dreams of Peterborough’s Tia Star are coming true. The stars lined up in that direction as the 31-year-old Toronto native and Peterborough resident by way of Lindsay was named the winner of the second Bears’ Lair Entrepreneurial competition at Showplace Peterborough on Saturday night.[...] Tue, 15 May 2012 21:08:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562545 129815896800000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562539 Some shoppers couldn’t help themselves. On Thursday, May 10, a line stretched well into the parking lot of Minden’s Canadian Tire, newly opened on Water Street just off Highway 35.[...] Tue, 15 May 2012 21:01:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562539 129815892600000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562536 To the Editor, The summer programming for free family fun in downtown Minden is underway. The hosts of the weekly evening provide fun for the whole family on Wednesday nights in July and August. The summer program is started with Mary at the River Cone hosting the evening.[...] Tue, 15 May 2012 20:59:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562536 129815891400000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562533 Haliburton County’s Opioid Misuse Abuse and Reduction Committee (OMARC), is hosting two awareness events on Wednesday May 30 at the Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion in the Haliburton Highlands Secondary School.[...] Tue, 15 May 2012 20:56:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562533 129815889600000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562531 Students from schools throughout Trillium Lakelands District School Board converged on the Kinark Outdoors Centre outside Carnarvon on May 10. Speakers and activities taught students about the importance of conservation and environmental stewardship.[...] Tue, 15 May 2012 20:55:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562531 129815889000000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562528 With some reorganization and some digging in its pockets, the county will be able to continue offering free Internet access at the branches of the Haliburton County Public Library.[...] Tue, 15 May 2012 20:52:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562528 129815887200000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562513 After a bad year in 2011 for West Nile virus activity in Ontario, local health officials are encouraging people to get off to a good start this year by ruining a mosquito’s love life.[...] Tue, 15 May 2012 20:29:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562513 129815873400000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562511 With the recent changes concerning the Ministry of Natural Resources’ Bear Wise program, the Haliburton Highlands detachment of the OPP has been receiving questions about nuisance bears.[...] Tue, 15 May 2012 20:28:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562511 129815872800000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562499 A 20-year-old Haliburton County man is dead after an incident on Soyer’s Lake on Monday. Kieran Wulff was working on a dock at a home along Frog Hopper Lane in the Blairhampton Road area in the early afternoon of May 14.[...] Tue, 15 May 2012 20:19:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562499 129815867400000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562204 Police have released the name of the man who was pulled from the water on Soyer's Lake near Haliburton Monday. Kieran Wulff, 20, "succumbed to his injuries" May 14 after being rescued from the water around 1 p.m.[...] Tue, 15 May 2012 14:08:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3562204 129815644800000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3561186 A man was pulled from Soyer's Lake around 1 p.m. Monday, but his condition remains unknown. Haliburton OPP issued a release that says only that emergency services arrived to the Poverty Bay area of the lake, which is west of Haliburton just off County Road 21.[...] Mon, 14 May 2012 20:06:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3561186 129814995600000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3561025 Police charged a 28-year-old Ancaster man with impaired driving following a traffic stop Friday. Local OPP were patrolling Highway 35 south of Minden at just before midnight May 11 and pulled over the car.[...] Mon, 14 May 2012 16:33:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3561025 129814867800000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3558533 After years of anxiously waiting, shoppers were ready to check out the new Canadian Tire and Mark's Work Wearhouse Thursday, May 10. The store opened on 92 Water St. in Minden just off Highway 35.[...] Thu, 10 May 2012 17:26:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3558533 129811443600000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3558431 Minden Hills township garnered a large surplus for 2011. Councillors discussed what they would do with the surplus of nearly $550,000 during their May 10 committee-of-the-whole meeting. The bulk of the surplus – some $350,000 – resulted from savings on wages and benefits.[...] Thu, 10 May 2012 16:19:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3558431 129811403400000000 http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3558351 A Coboconk man has been fined a total of $1,500 for fishing offences. Douglas Boyce pleaded guilty and was fined $750 for possessing two lake trout over his legal limit and $750 for possessing two lake trout within the prohibited size.[...] Thu, 10 May 2012 15:24:00 GMT http://www.mindentimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3558351 129811370400000000