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Presented in Sponsorship with Connecting the Community. Thursday September 12, 2019 – 7:30 pm (only evening talk) ~ Bernie Farber : A Canadian Genocide: Canada’s Historical Treatment of its Indigenous People   Thursday, September 26, 2019 (10am to 12pm) ~ James Lockyer: Wrongful Convictions in Canada   Thursday, October 3,…

The Richmond Hill Public Library (RHPL) Arts Contest is our community’s opportunity to recognize and celebrate the talent of our creative teens. The annual contest and celebration showcases the written, poetic, visual and photographic art of high school students who live and/or study in Richmond Hill. It has been a pleasure…

Richmond Hill Blooms is a program designed to encourage residents to play a role in making Richmond Hill a more beautiful place to live, work and play by creating attractive, colourful and well-maintained front gardens and recognizing them. Neighbours, friends and relatives can nominate front gardens for recognition. You can even…

There are a number of development applications active in Ward 4 that continue to generate significant interest from residents.  This newsletter section is intended to keep everyone informed and updated about the status of these applications. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all active development applications…

1.  Richmond Hill Wins Three Environment Awards Richmond Hill received three awards for a range of environmental initiatives, including the International Society of Arboriculture Gold Leaf Award and the Tree Canada Public Education Award for Richmond Hill’s Community Stewardship Program and the Ontario Public Works Association (OPWA) Project of the…

1. Inside the Region with Nirmala Armstrong – 105.9 The Region   On Sunday April 14th, I had the pleasure of speaking to Nirmala Armstrong on her radio show, Inside the Region, on FM 105.9 The Region. Nirmala is a past Regional Councillor from Markham and has a good grasp of issues that…

  Any successful person, or for that matter, any successful community, have at least two things in common. They have a well thought out plan to guide them to a goal, and they are focussed on sticking to the plan knowing it is the roadmap to the goal. The alternative…

                                                                              Vivaldi Gloria Saturday May 4 Please visit chorusyork.ca for tickets.   Chorus York…