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Wet weather no deterrent for youth horticultural club

Ripley and District Horticultural Society (RDHS) For Our Youth club members arrived bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for our May meeting, ready to dive into this month’s activities despite the wet weather. We met at leader Heather’s beautiful farm to discuss this month’s tree — pine, and work on Ontario Horticulture Association (OHA) contest entry pictures.  After […]

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Grey-Bruce to join health-care protest at Queen’s Park Thursday

Buses will bring people from five Grey-Bruce communities who want to join a health-care rally and protest in Toronto on May 30. The Ontario Health Coalition event is to demand a moratorium on the closure of local public hospitals and a stop to privatization of health care. Grey Bruce Health Coalition members will be speaking […]

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Trillium ROOTS Council donates $10K to Wingham hospital campaign

The Caring Together campaign is nearing its fundraising target for the purchase of a new CT scanner for Wingham’s hospital having raised $2 million of the $2.5-million goal as of May 28. On May 23, the Wingham and District Hospital Foundation announced a donation of $10,000 from the Trillium ROOTS Council, the charitable branch of […]