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June 14, 2010: Victoria County Voices:
    Municipal Elections,
    Master Fire Plan,
    Council expenses,
    24 members of Sunshine Club

March 30,2009: GOVERNING OTTAWA BETTER: A PUBLIC FORUM

Sep 27,2008: VOCO Annual Town Hall Meeting

Feb 4, 2008: Essex Council Endorses de-amalgamation petiton

July 27, 2007:ODN Forum

May31, 2007: Ontario Deamalgamation Network

May3, 2007: Gerretsen's criteria met

Apr 5, 2007: Vote by mail a disaster

Apr 4, 2007: Adam Found Report

Jan. 19, 2007: Mail-in Voting

Dec. 14, 2006: Updated election results (disputed ballots opened)

Nov. 10, 2006: CoKL Election Results

Aug. 26, 2006: ODN Conference #4, Ridgetown ON

March 29, 2006: RED CASKET POSTCARD CAMPAIGN

March 25, 2006: Ailsa Craig, ON 3rd Annual Ontario Deamalgamation Conference

Nov. 16, 2005: Flamborough Town Hall

Oct. 15, 2005: Liberal Policy Convention

Oct. 18, 2005: Petitions presented to Legislature

Sep. 15, 2005: Continuing the "North County Tour"

July 31, 2005: Taking the message to Ottawa

July 15, 2005: Red Casket Tours the North County

June 11, 2005: ODN Conference Fenelon Falls

May 19, 2005 : VOCO Red Casket at Parliament Hill

May 05, 2005 : McGuinty's "Top 3 Lies"

Apr 28, 2005 : REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF PEEL ACT

Apr 22, 2005 : Ontario Legislature: Bill 92

Mar 17, 2005 : Red Casket to Ottawa, Old Grey Mayor Lies Again

Mar 09, 2005 : VOCO joined the Rural Revolution Rally at Queen's Park

Feb 07, 2005 : DE-AMALGAMATION STILL AN OPTION

Jan 21, 2005 : Rural Revolution 401 Blockade

Jan 20, 2005 : Gerretsen's response

Jan 19, 2005 : CoKL Council demands that the Province honour the Referendum

Jan 12, 2005 : Gerretsen refuses to consider 2-tier restructuring proposal

Sep 24, 2004 : Red Casket Relay to Chatham-Kent (ROCK)

Aug 24, 2004 : Red Casket Relay

May 15, 2004 : De-amalgamation Networking Conference Rockton, ON

April 5, 2004 : McCallion puts McGuinty on notice

March 30, 2004 : QP Funeral for Democracy

March 19, 2004 : "Victory In Victoria", Focus Ontario

February 19, 2004 : McGuinty Liberals won't honour referendum

Apr 2003- Feb 2004 : The Deamalgamation Referendum

March 31, 2003: Storm clouds in Chatham-Kent

February 11, 2003 : All the Studies Support Two-Tier

January 29, 2003 : Reviewing Amalgamation Predictions

January 14, 2003 : Top Ten Reasons for Two Tier

January 1, 2003 : In Praise of Common Sense

December 12, 2002 : The Referendum Question

November 27, 2002 : View From the "Yes" Side

November 15, 2002 : VOCO Update

November 1, 2002

October 17, 2002

October 4, 2002 : VU: The "Visioning" Committee

September 20, 2002 VU: The "Business Incubator"

September 6, 2002

August 23, 2002 VU: Area Rating

August 9, 2002 VU: Riding to be renamed, dropping "Victoria"

July 26, 2002 VU: Billboard on Hwy 36

June 14, 2002 VU: Recap of the amalgamation fight

May 31, 2002 VU: Town Hall gives Special Events By-law "thumbs down"

May 17, 2002 VU: Amalgamation Awareness recap

April 27, 2002VU: Amalgamation Awareness Conference, Lakeview

April 19, 2002 VU: Postcard campaign

March 21, 2002 VU: Hodgson phone blitz

March 8, 2002

January 25, 2002 VU: Citizens' Referendum Results presented to Council

January 11, 2002

Prior to 2002