End of an Era: A Goodbye from the Crier

Four and a half years ago the South Bruce Peninsula Crier was created to provide an easy, accessible and searchable archives, and subscribe-able feed channel for the otherwise hidden public announcements embedded in the official town website's PDF postings; in the past year our process has largely been thwarted by the increasing use of PDF files containing only document image scans although a few documents did continue to be machine-readable for our reposting process. 

No longer.

The Town of South Bruce Peninsula unveiled their new corporate website today, and with that new birth comes the final demise of the SBP Crier; their new town site is even more opaque than the previous edition, and it is no longer possible for us to poll, mirror and syndicate their press releases.  Although their new site does sport the webstandard RSS icon, their feed only covers the events calendar announcements already available on the saublebeach.com feed more conveniently subscribable through Google Calendar.  So as for what is happening out of council these days?  Or for the latest on what bylaws have been added, tenders offered or consultant studies funded? The official answer appears to be 'Go Fish'.  Or buy the $2 wad of dead tree they call a 'newspaper' and hope for the best.  Or maybe sit in MacBeths between 9am and 11.

Unfortunately we lost the password for this site years ago, so we can't take it down, and without that password Google tells us we cannot reassign the rights to anyone else.  Thus this site will now site as a static archive, and a monument to an earlier era of municipal transparency.  So it goes.

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New Waste Management Program

TOWN OF SOUTH BRUCE PENINSULA
NEW WASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

Effective January 1, 2010, the Town of South Bruce Peninsula will commence a
new garbage collection and waste management program. The program will
encompass garbage collection, recycling and landfill operations.

As of January 1, 2010, all residential and commercial properties within the
Town of South Bruce Peninsula will be required to purchase and place a bag tag
on every bag of garbage placed at the curb for collection, excluding the first
garbage bag. There will be a maximum of three bags allowed to be placed at the
curbside per collection.

Each garbage bag placed for collection shall not contain more than ten percent
recyclable material.

Each bag tag will cost $1.50. Bag tags will be available in multiples of ten and
can be purchased at the following locations:

· Town Hall
· Wiarton Train Station (seasonal)
· Wiarton Foodland
· Daisy Mart
· Renee's Restaurant & Gas Bar (Mar)
· Cindy's Variety (Hepworth)
· Aiken Brothers Hardware
· Sauble Beach ValuMart
· Sauble Beach Library
· Sauble Beach Info Centre
· Lakeside Home Hardware
· Sauble Pharmacy

For more information, please visit the Town's website at
www.southbrucepeninsula.com or contact us at

Town of South Bruce Peninsula
315 George Street, P.O. Box 310
Wiarton, Ontario
N0H 2T0
(519) 534-1400

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Public Notice re Change of Date for COW Feb 2

PUBLIC NOTICE CHANGE OF DATE
FOR THE FEBRUARY 2, 2010
REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING
Please take note that the Council of the Corporation of the Town of South Bruce
Peninsula will change their regularly scheduled Committee of the Whole meeting for
February 2, 2010 to February 1, 2010 due to the Ground Hog Day.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Please direct any questions regarding this notice to the Clerk/CAO, Rhonda Cook at 519-
534-1400 ext 121 or tsbpcao@bmts.com