Category: Grey/Bruce
People show their Canada Day pride at city birthday bash
Canadians at Owen Sound’s Canada Day celebration at Kelso Beach at Nawash Park said they felt proud and lucky to live in this country. The park was busy with activity Monday, the country’s 157th birthday, under sunny skies and a cooling bay breeze. Many ate barbecued hot dogs and hamburgers, ice cream and enjoyed […]
City waterfront ‘nowhere near’ its potential, local businessman says
It was grey and cool at Owen Sound’s Westside Boat Launch as 12 people in life vests prepared to head out in a dragon boat Sunday. They paddled out past the John D. Leitch, the towering, black-hulled lake freighter moored against the east harbour wall, and tooled around the inner harbour. The Sound Waterfront Festival, […]
City firefighters douse encampment fire near elevators
City firefighters extinguished a tent fire amid tall reeds near the harbour’s edge, by the wharf at the grain elevators Sunday afternoon. The call came in at 3:24 p.m., just as firefighters were returning to the fire station from an apartment fire on 3rd Avenue East, which remains under investigation by police and the provincial […]
Ambulance takes man away from city duplex fire Sunday, tenants say
Owen Sound police are investigating the scene of an apartment fire, where tenants said they saw a fellow tenant lying in blood in front of the building Sunday. The man, whom tenants said lived in the unit that was on fire, was unresponsive and was worked on by paramedics before being taken away in an […]
Waterfront festival draws families for afternoon fun
Owen Sound’s waterfront festival Saturday was all about kids. They played on the beach and in the bay, built tall wooden Jenga towers, ran races, climbed into a fire truck and a police cruiser. There were dogs running obstacle courses to watch, a roaming, 7’ 4’’ woman to hug, candy floss to eat […]