Guelph-area farmer responds to Galen Weston’s characterization of farmers’ markets
— He didn’t mean it.
Item’s Dining Out guide moves to Friday
The Item’s weekly Dining Out guide, which includes a coupon to fill out and return for your chance to win a $50 gift certificate to a local restaurant, moves this week to the Friday edition, and along with the guide, the Item tomorrow will begin running the weekly Restaurant Zings and Praises column, a compilation of reviews by callers to the Pat Whitley Restaurant Review Show.
Top 5 strange gifts for your Valentine
The whole chocolates and roses thing has been done to death. Why not try an “alternative” Valentine’s Day gift? 1. The Bronx Zoo wants New Yorkers to pay $10 for the right to give their sweetheart's name - or perhaps that of an ex - to one of its Madagascar hissing cockroaches.
Loblaw chief Galen Weston didn’t mean to snub farmers’ markets, company says
Loblaw says chief Galen Weston’s controversial comments during his Canadian Food Summit speech didn’t imply farmer’s markets were “less safe” than grocery stores.
Sharon Rotary club looking for auction items
The 2012 Sharon Rotary online auction needs your help. Your contribution of a gift certificate, tickets, merchandise or cash is needed to help us continue their charitable efforts. The auction will start on Monday, Feb. 27, and last until Friday, March 9.
Donations: Good deeds in the Joliet area
Lions Club gives to pantryJOLIET — The Joliet Noon Lions were able to make the holidays a little brighter for the Spanish Community Center food pantry. With a series of raffles at regular noon meetings for a few weeks and a gift certificate donated by Aldi Foods, the Lions were able to provide more than $300 worth of food to the center.Lions Club shoppers Mark Turk, Pat Kaveney; John, Bobby and ...
Bogota PTO shows diversity has many flavors
The Steen School Parent-Teacher Organization organized its annual International Night on Feb. 3.
Janet Podolak: Chance to Break the Chain starts Sunday
The annual Break the Chain Pub Crawl gets underway again as five area independent restaurants offer plenty of incentives to get folks out to eat on Sunday.
Stores selling food bank coupons
The Friends In Need food bank is asking people to take action to assist those in need by purchasing SHARE coupons when they get their weekly groceries.