Tag: Bruce
Owen Sound mayor highlights 2024 accomplishments
Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy says the city has made some huge decisions in 2024, including important deals with its neighbouring municipalities, new services for its own ratepayers and renewed agreements with its community partners. Boddy gave his year-end update during the city’s last regular council meeting on Monday (Dec. 16), where he outlined dozens […]
Paisley’s ‘Bullboni’ part of beefy community centre renovation project
Arran-Elderslie grabbed the bull by the horns in 2024 when updating the Paisley Community Centre. The municipality completed a half-million-dollar renovation to refurbish and refresh the community hub. The work redesigned the second floor of the community centre and made the building more accessible with a new elevator. As part of that work, the town […]
Grey Bruce OPP welcome new police dog and handler
The Grey Bruce OPP has a new canine on the force. A three-year-old Belgian malinois/Dutch shepherd named Siebe and handler Const. Dean Ferris have joined the Grey Bruce OPP’s Canine Unit. Ferris is a five-year veteran of the OPP who served as a frontline officer before becoming a canine handler. Siebe’s qualifications include tracking lost, […]
Who will ‘stand on guard for thee’ in goal for Canada at world junior hockey championship?
Carter George, Carson Bjarnason and Jack Ivankovic are vying to be Canada’s No. 1 netminder going into the tournament that starts on Boxing Day.
OSHaRE struggles to meet need as it sets new record for meals served
Owen Sound’s soup kitchen reached a new high — 200,000 meals served this year as of last week, breaking last year’s 146,000 meal total, executive director Colleen Trask Seaman said Saturday, shortly before opening the kitchen doors for take-out meals. It’s one local organization which is struggling to meet increasing demands this holiday season. The […]
Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce continuing operations despite funding woes
Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce says it won’t be shutting down operations. “Despite a lack of funding from the majority of Ontario Provincial Police serviced municipalities at this time, Crime Stoppers is still here to take the public’s tips anonymously as it has since 1987,” the organization said in a Dec. 19 news release. On […]
OSHaRE’s preparing special Christmas meals
Free Christmas meals over the holidays start Monday, with a roast beef dinner with all the trimmings at Owen Sound Hunger and Relief Effort soup kitchen. There will be stockings for their guests and special desserts, executive director Colleen Trask Seaman said. On Christmas Eve, the SOS market will be at OSHaRE. The Grey Bruce […]
Tallman: Seven spiritual ideas for the holidays, new year
Everything is one and interconnected.
Nawash chief says gas bar in works for south of Wiarton
The Chippewas of Nawash intend to establish a gas station, with electric car charging and more, just south of Wiarton in 2025. It’s been one year since Wiarton, which calls itself the gateway to the Bruce Peninsula, has been without a gas station. It and has little charging infrastructure too. The Chippewas of Nawash service […]
Local conservation award helps future environmental champs
A local university student studied lemurs in Madagascar this summer and has tracked turtles on the Bruce Peninsula. Alex Adair, a 19-year-old from Owen Sound who’s in his second of four years studying wildlife biology and conservation at Guelph Univesity, this past summer went to Madagascar to join a research team led by Guelph University’s […]