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		<title>The soldier</title>
		<link>http://observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/joe-the-soldier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know this guy. He&#8217;s American, but he&#8217;s one of the cool ones. This morning he said goodbye to his friends, his family, his house, his town, and left for a year. In just over a month he&#8217;ll be on a plane to Afghanistan. After 15 years in the U.S. Reserves, this is his third [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602544&amp;post=4235&amp;subd=observationsofanewsjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The year of the race</title>
		<link>http://observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/the-year-of-the-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my major ambitions for 2012 was to run the Green Mountain Relay. However, the team that had invited me to join them couldn&#8217;t collect enough committed runners, so most of them decided to run the 15k Boilermaker in Utica instead. It&#8217;s a pretty major road race, with more than two thousand athletes already [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602544&amp;post=4231&amp;subd=observationsofanewsjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shipwrecks and oil pipelines</title>
		<link>http://observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/shipwrecks-and-oil-pipelines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;ve been hiding in a cave over the last few days, here&#8217;s a quick rundown of recent news both in Cornwall and around the globe. A cruise ship crashed. Eleven people died. The captain apparently abandoned his post and refused to go back to help his passengers. He&#8217;s been charged with manslaughter, among [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602544&amp;post=4219&amp;subd=observationsofanewsjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City council &#8211; Jan. 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lise St-Denis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a month-long break during Christmas and New Years holidays, Cornwall&#8217;s councillors returned to City Hall Monday night for an overview of the draft 2012 budget. If approved with the proposed 2.38% increase, the average homeowner would see an extra $53.16 on their tax bill this year. Revenues are expected to be $4 million higher [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602544&amp;post=4210&amp;subd=observationsofanewsjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012</title>
		<link>http://observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 2012. I&#8217;m pretty pumped about it, though also increasingly freaked out by how ridiculously fast time is whipping by. I&#8217;m not a big resolution person &#8211; in terms of starting a new habit or ending an old one &#8211; but I do attempt to set goals for each new year that I&#8217;m blessed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602544&amp;post=4203&amp;subd=observationsofanewsjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Year in Review: My favs</title>
		<link>http://observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/year-in-review-my-favs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick recap of a few of my favourite things, events and experiences from 2011. Music: Switchfoot&#8217;s Vice Verses There&#8217;s almost no contest. This album is just that good. First experience: Running out of gas. No wait, that can&#8217;t be it. First fillings? Nope. It was definitely moving into my own apartment. My landlord [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602544&amp;post=4164&amp;subd=observationsofanewsjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Year in review: The News</title>
		<link>http://observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/year-in-review-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been quite a year. From Japan&#8217;s triple disasters to the Arab Spring, it feels like not a week went by without major news spreading across the globe. It seems like it&#8217;s been a record-setting 12 months in terms of cost from natural catastrophes. Hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornados. You name it, it probably happened. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602544&amp;post=4162&amp;subd=observationsofanewsjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A white Christmas</title>
		<link>http://observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/a-white-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 03:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I worked for a little while today &#8230; but it was okay. I met some crazy inspiring people along the way. I ate way too much food. I played snow football &#8211; full body contact style. I won a game of Settlers. My family played some sweet music and sang carols by our tree. We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602544&amp;post=4182&amp;subd=observationsofanewsjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So &#8230; it&#8217;s Christmas.</title>
		<link>http://observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/so-its-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s because it has been so green lately, with barely a snowflake in sight all month long. Maybe it&#8217;s because my family members out west have chosen to postpone a trip to Ontario until February, depriving us of exciting arrivals to look forward to. Maybe it&#8217;s because an unusually high number of people have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602544&amp;post=4171&amp;subd=observationsofanewsjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report from city council</title>
		<link>http://observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/report-from-city-council/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a busy couple of weeks at City Hall &#8211; so busy in fact, I apparently forgot to blog about it. Deliberations on the 2012 budget began this month, with council approving a 2.96% increase in water/sewer rates. The steering committee met twice last week to hear and debate presentations by agencies looking for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2602544&amp;post=4167&amp;subd=observationsofanewsjunkie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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