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This week in BarrieToday+: Make memories with a a summer staycation valued at $400!

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Put your feet up and relax and enjoy food and fun from your own home with a chance to win a summer staycation valued at $400! +Members can enter daily, and don't forget to answer the poll for an extra entry. Contest closes July 31st.

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Leave the cooking to us! There's still time to enter for a chance to win a $50 gift card from Baton Rouge! Don't forget to answer the poll and visit the Baton Rouge website to gain extra entries. Contest closes tonight at 11:59 p.m.

We'll have a brand new giveaway beginning tomorrow. +Members can enter for the chance to win a $50 gift card from Firehouse Subs.

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This week, reporter Bob Bruton takes a look at the Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Legacy Space at Barrie’s Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH), a safe place to pause and reflect on Indigenous history and reconciliation. Gord Downie is gone, but his message must remain with Canadians. 

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And if you missed it, here's what happened last week:

Local reporter Shawn Gibson brought us a review of The Ghost Watchers which consisted of nine stops in Barrie's downtown.

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