Category: Owen Sound
Kiwanis Christmas tree sales start Friday in Owen Sound
Kiwanis Club of Owen Sound volunteers will start selling Christmas trees Friday in Owen Sound. The annual sale raises money for Kiwanis causes, from the Santa Claus parade to the Gitche Namewikwedong Reconciliation Garden. It’s the 74th year the service club has sold trees for Christmas and 2024-25 is the local club’s 100th anniversary. Club […]
Christmas decoration and festive swag sale Nov. 16
Lightly used Christmas decorations and garden club Christmas urns and swags will be featured at a Christmas sale to support the Community Waterfront Heritage Centre on Saturday, Nov. 16 in Owen Sound. The Christmas decorations will be displayed for sale in the 1953 railway car, Coach 4884, while the Georgian Bay Garden Club’s urns and […]
Author Gwen Lamont tells a story she once promised to keep hidden in new memoir
Gwen Lamont buried the memories of a chaotic and abusive childhood until she felt ready to reconcile her past with her present. For 14 years, the co-owner of Coffin Ridge Winery near Owen Sound travelled to the places she had spent so long turning away from and wrote her smothered memories onto the page. Her […]
Drivers drew attention, got charged with impaired
City police say a driver was texting, driving with an open beer and a bag of pot before they charged him Friday. Then Saturday, a woman who drew attention by driving around the same block repeatedly and failed to obey stop signs, also attracted police attention. Owen Sound police said in a news release Monday […]
City gathers to remember, hears about its first Second World War casualty
Hundreds attended the annual Remembrance Day service in Owen Sound Monday. Citizens stood silently and politely clapped as a parade led by the legion’s flag-bearing colour party approached the large stone memorial to the city’s war dead. The familiar bugler’s Last Post, the boom and flash of gunfire, recitation of In Flanders Fields, two […]
Region’s unemployment rate still the second lowest in province
The region’s unemployment rate fell 0.5 percentage points to 3.8 per cent in October and remains the second lowest in the province. Provincially, unemployment was at 7.2 per cent last month — both figures are unadjusted for seasonality. In October, the region’s overall population increased by 400 but the labour force size decreased by 2,500 […]
Doctor who spoke out against vaccine mandates will turn over records
Former Owen Sound emergency room doctor Rochagné Kilian said she will turn over COVID vaccine exemption and other patient records after a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision. Kilian became the subject of a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario investigation three years ago over COVID-19 vaccine exemptions. She said she will turn over […]
Collectors’ show feeds need for nostalgia, thrill of hunt
Everyone’s Holy Grail is different. At Sunday’s cards and collectables show in Owen Sound, the search was on for that one thing that would make a collector’s day. More than 60 vendors crammed two rooms at the Harry Lumley-Bayshore Community Centre with tables full of hockey cards, old local bottles and postcards, video games, board […]
Climate conference aims to inspire youth Thursday in Owen Sound
More than 125 kids from 25 Grey-Bruce schools are coming to Youth Climate Action Conference 2024 in Owen Sound this Thursday. They’ll attend workshops culminating in designing their own school and community action projects, which they’ll share at the end of the day, a news release about the event says. The workshops will be led […]
City police charge suspect in convenience store robbery
Owen Sound police have arrested a suspect in a convenience store robbery. Police said a lone man entered a westside convenience store Oct. 28 about 9 p.m. He handed the clerk a letter demanding money and said it was a robbery and demanded cash, police said in a news release. He fled with an undisclosed […]