Category: Owen Sound
Two-Spirit Powwow in Owen Sound this weekend
The fourth annual Manidoo Gamiing Nagweyaab Jiintamok, or Georgian Bay Two Sprit Powwow, is happening this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the M’Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Centre. The powwow’s grand entry is set for noon. It’s one of Ontario’s only Two-Spirit powwows — powwows which commemorate Indigenous queerness across Turtle Island. Organizers say […]
Council votes for zoning change allowing eastside city apartments
Owen Sound council approved a staff-recommended rezoning application Monday to permit apartment buildings as part of a larger development called Tenth Avenue Estates, in the northeast portion of the city. Tenth Avenue Estates is a proposed 85-unit life-lease residential development which is to include 22 townhouses and two apartment buildings –one 3 ½ storeys containing 29 units, and […]
Local emergency services members participate in 9/11 memorial stair climb
Grey-Bruce emergency services personnel gathered at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Sunday morning to suffer in solidarity and in honour of those who climbed up the World Trade Center towers to aid in the evacuation on Sept. 11, 2001, in the moments after commercial airliners slammed into the buildings in a terror attack. Over […]
Walk for Parkinson’s returns to Owen Sound Saturday
Team Ian took Grey-Bruce by storm Saturday. The Walk for Parkinson’s fundraising team in honour and in memory of Ian Shouldice raised nearly $5,000 for the Owen Sound walk, organized by the Parkinson Society of Southwestern Ontario. That’s the most raised by a single team this year, and over a third of the local walk’s […]
Kidney Foundation provides peer support for those with failing kidneys waiting for a transplant
Betty Seminowicz said she felt the need to give back after her brother donated a kidney when hers failed in 2008. On Saturday, Seminowicz was recognized for her volunteer efforts during the Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Walk at Harrison Park in Owen Sound. Her volunteer duties include supporting patients undergoing dialysis treatments and providing peer support […]