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• Golden performance. Brantford firefighter wins firefit championship

  17-09-2026 11:00 via brantfordexpositor.ca
  
  A couple of Brantford firefighters are heading to Las Vegas in October to compete in the World Firefighter Challenge championship after medal-winning performances at the Canadian championships held in Fredericton, NB, on the weekend.Meaghan Dunn won a gold medal in the women’s individual competition, gold in the women’s hybrid competition with Kelly Campbell, of Cambridge Fire, and bronze in the hybrid mixed relay. Capt. Paul Mitton won bronze in the over-55 men’s competition.
  
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• Judges: Restitution orders in two cases unlikely to be paid

  17-09-2026 10:00 via brantfordexpositor.ca
  
  Two local people in two substantial cases of fraud were sentenced to repay their victims $34,000 each in courts last month but the judges admitted there is little chance the funds will ever be paid.Anthony J. Powless, 56, and Trisha L. Ladd, 44, were convicted of fraud over $5,000 just days apart, receiving almost identical sentences.Each were sentenced to a year-long community sentence order with GPS monitoring, house arrest for the first six months, followed by six months of a tight curfew.An
  
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• Softball star Erika Polidori shines for Canada - and in cartoon

  17-09-2026 08:00 via brantfordexpositor.ca
  
  Brantford’s Erika Polidori wasn’t only a softball superstar on the diamond this summer for Canada, she also starred away from the field when she was immortalized as a cartoon character.Polidori, an Olympian and veteran with Canada’s national women’s softball team, joined Buddy the Moose in a three-episode video campaign put together by Softball Canada and Kidzsmart Communications that helps teachers from pre-kindergarten through Grade 4 explain softball to their students
  
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