Emergency Preparedness Week 2025

WHEREAS Emergency Preparedness Week a national awareness initiative and an opportunity for you to take action to ensure you're prepared to protect yourself, your family and your community during an emergency; and

WHEREAS this year, the theme is Be Prepared. Know Your Risks; and

WHEREAS the safety of our community is the responsibility of each and every one of us, and we must prepare now for a safe and healthy tomorrow.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that I, Shawn Pankow, Mayor of the Town of Smiths...

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Red Dress Day 2025

WHEREAS May 5, 2025, marks the 15th anniversary of the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQIA+ People, also known as Red Dress Day; and

WHEREAS the REDress Project was created by Jaime Black as a public art installation in response to the missing and murdered Indigenous women; and

AND WHEREAS the colour red signifies the colour the spirits can see and the colour red is calling back the spirits of the those missing and allows them a chance to be...

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Community Announcement: New Municipal Water Tower has Risen!

📢 Community Announcement: New Municipal Water Tower has Risen! We are pleased to announce that the water tank portion of our new municipal water tower has been hoisted to the top of the tower column, a major step forward in ensuring reliable, high-quality water service for our growing community. This state-of-the-art structure will enhance water pressure, support future development, and improve emergency water supply and fire protection capabilities. The Town would like to recognize and thank...

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Spring Brush & Leaf Pick-Up 2025

All brush must be set at the backside of the curb or sidewalk by 7 AM on Monday, May 5, 2025. Town staff will pick up neatly piled brush with branches no larger than 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter from May 5 to 9, 2025.

Bagged leaves must be placed at the backside of the curb or sidewalk by 7 AM on Friday, May 9, 2025. Glenview Iron and Metal will pick up bagged leaves that day only. Only brown compostable paper bags will be accepted; plastic bags will not be collected.

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Community Living Month 2025

WHEREAS Community Living Ontario develops policy solutions and advocates for changes that increase the community participation, inclusion and belonging of people labelled as having an intellectual disability;

AND WHEREAS this includes the more than 250,000 people who have an intellectual disability and their families in Ontario who Community Living Ontario has been advocating for and with for over 70 years.

AND WHEREAS Community Living Month is a province-wide annual awareness campaign to...

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