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3rd Solar Power Project Completed
Posted on Friday, November 09, 2012 09:30 AM
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ORILLIA - Orillia’s third major solar rooftop project is up and running.
For the past two years, the Toronto-based Bright Power Group has been working under the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) on a 75-kilowatt installation atop the Couchiching Family Health Team building at 119 Memorial Ave.
“This particular project was largely made in Orillia,” said Mayor Angelo Orsi, who was at the official unveiling Tuesday afternoon.
Steenhof Building Service came up with the design for the...
High Marks for Lakehead University
Posted on Friday, November 09, 2012 09:30 AM
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ORILLIA - Lakehead University has ranked high - among five Ontario undergraduate universities in its category - in Maclean's magazine's university rankings.
"For us, that tells us we're actually doing quite well within the province," Rod Hanley, Lakehead provost and vice-president academic, said Tuesday. "It's something we're quite proud of."
The rankings aren't separated between the Orillia and Thunder Bay campuses.
"It's overall for the university," Hanley said.
Nationally,...
County Website Hopes to Attract Immigration to Local Communities
Posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:00 AM
Simcoe County is working on a website for newcomers.
The Local Immigration Partnership (LIP) is working on an Internet portal intended to attract, integrate and recruit immigrants to the county’s municipalities.
The website will launch in March.
Irena Pozgaj, research analyst for Simcoe County, said the area is often more of a secondary location than an immigrant’s landing area.
“Immigrants are twice as likely than Canadian-born residents to move to rural areas, but also twice as likely to leave,”...
Orillia Soldiers Memorial Hospital Among the Best for Patient Wait Times
Posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 10:45 AM
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While Ontario hospitals have reduced the time spent in emergency rooms (ER), wait times at Orillia’s hospital are even shorter than the provincial average.
According to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, time spent in the province’s ERs has decreased by 1.2 hours over the past four years.
As of September, Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital’s (OSMH) average wait times are 4.6 hours for complex conditions and 1.8 hours for uncomplicated conditions compared to the provincial...
Doctor Aguilar and Mitchell Choose Orillia
Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2012 05:00 AM
Ryan Mitchell and Nina Aguilera, who both did their residency in Orillia, have decided to set up a family practice in Orillia.
A longstanding partnership between Orillia’s Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital (OSMH) and the University of Toronto is a prescription for success in attracting family doctors to the Sunshine City.
Just ask Dr. Ryan Mitchell, who chose to do his family medicine residency at OSMH – a decision that led him and his wife, Dr. Nina Aguilar, to chose Orillia as their new home; the...
