Owen Sound Sun Times

Most hospitals in Grey-Bruce reducing or ending chaplain services

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Hospital spiritual care — provided by chaplains who listen and help people deal with anxieties and concerns when facing life’s difficult moments — has undergone an “upheaval” in Grey-Bruce.  Brightshores Health System is taking the service in-house, by hiring a full-time spiritual care leader and two part-time spiritual care providers to cover its seven sites. […]

Great Lakes Echo

Limited access to health care contributes to higher rural death rates | Great Lakes Echo

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Rural Michigan residents who suffer from a chronic illness that requires specialized treatment may have to drive hours to receive care.

That barrier to access to health care is one reason rural county death rates tend to be higher than their urban counterparts, according to Robert Howe, the medical director of the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department.

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Community input sought for cleaned-up lakes, shorelines | Great Lakes Echo

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It’s taken over 30 years and $80 million to restore Muskegon Lake and a few nearby smaller bodies of water.

Decades of pollution and rapid urbanization created ecological problems so severe that the lake was designated a “Great Lakes Area of Concern” by the U.S. and Canada in 1987.

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Michigan dam removal could improve environment, recreation and storm protection | Great Lakes Echo

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The most exciting part about removing a dam in a small Michigan city isn’t the demolition, but what comes after. 

The Huron River Watershed Council recently estimated the 148-year-old dam In Ypsilanti could come down in 2025 or 2026.

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