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• Trinidad and Tobago project designed to protect Buccoo Reef

  Canadian experience in water and wastewater engineering is portable. The engineers at IBI-MAAK Inc.

• MacKay hails military families at scholarship awards

  Defence Minister Peter MacKay hailed Canadian Forces members and their families as the "best Canadians" as he helped hand out scholarships on Thursday to eight sons and daughters of those killed in service.

• Woman attacked in home

  Police in Orillia are advising residents to lock windows and doors at night after a local woman was attacked in her home earlier this week.

• Casino Rama: Dramatic venue outside Orillia is a sure bet

  Casino Rama was a startling sight. Looming out of flat Ontario farmland, near the resort town of Orillia, it looked, with its multi-tiered, upswept roofs, rather like a Thai buddhist temple.

• Hospice at crossroads

  Hospice at crossroads. Amber McGarvey, who was dismissed from her job at Hospice Orillia earlier this year, says volunteers are not receiving the support they require.

• Road work nearly done

  It only gets better from here. That was the word from public works director Peter Dance following months of construction disruption in Orillia's downtown.

• Motorists getting the message

  The message appears to be sinking in. The number of snakes, turtles and frogs killed on the Long Point Causeway this year appears to be way down.

• The rise and fall of the Toronto 18

  The RCMPa s revelation this week of an alleged homegrown terrorism group calls to mind the arrest four years ago of members of the so-called Toronto 18.

• Hazard on trail

  Hazard on trail. Lydia Whelan and Lorraine Bergeron say small stones that litter a portion of the Millennium Trail in front of the Panoramic Point development pose a hazard for rollerbladers.

• Candidates crawl out of the woodwork

  The election picture in Gravenhurst has changed significantly in just one week. Since Aug.