Tag: Canadian Mental Health Association
Christmas Store for CMHA clients needs donations of presents
People supported by the Canadian Mental Health Association will have an opportunity to go Christmas shopping at a unique holiday store on Dec. 4. It’s not really a store and items displayed on tables will have no price tags, but shoppers are invited to select items they’d like to give to loved ones. Someone will […]
City council steers new homeless ‘drop-in spaces’ away from main streets
Politicians have voted to further crack down on where the city’s homeless can lay their head, specifically in business districts. Not only will encampments and service depots for their residents have to be located roughly a football field’s distance from any residential property line, but resting spaces also will be barred from the main streets […]
Bring your questions to city open house at Bayshore Nov. 7
You can ask questions of Owen Sound’s council and staff about services, operations and governance, and talk with representatives of other local services, at an open house event Thursday, Nov. 7 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at the Harry Lumley-Bayshore Community Centre. City council asked staff to design this meeting by resolution in January, noting […]
Politicians say no to allowing homeless camps within 25 metres of homes
City politicians want to strike down an effort to shrink the distance between encampments and homes, even as city hall says current guidelines put staff at risk and make homelessness increasingly visible. During Tuesday’s meeting of city council’s strategic priorities and policy committee, politicians spent several hours combing over new recommendations for the city’s community […]
Charities benefit from 100 Good Men Who Give a Damn
Don Day said he got a good feeling after his new group, 100 Good Men Who Give a Damn, voted at its inaugural meeting to give the local Meals on Wheels program $10,500. With the enthusiasm of the men and the variety of them at different ages and stages of life, he said he thinks […]