Tag: children
Community builders use Lego to tackle complex housing issues
Mayors, building inspectors, county staff, housing professionals and designers gathered to play with Lego Friday at The Library in Owen Sound. The well-attended workshop hosted at the Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Library and organized by Christine Hempel and Krystal Valencia wasn’t all fun and games, the participants were trying to find solutions […]
Choir Camp 2024 hits the stage this month with renowned tenor
Choir Camp 2024 is bringing tenor soloist Matt Chittick and friends to Owen Sound this month to perform ahead of its end-of-camp concert. On Wednesday, July 17, at 7:30 p.m., Chittick and friends will give a concert of classical, musical theatre, and popular songs. The show will feature both crowd favourites and lesser-known gems. Originally […]
London youth baseball league takes new step to screen out abusive parents
Trying to protect young umpires from verbal abuse by parents, a London kids baseball league is using screen-like banners at ballfields to obscure the view of home plate from the bleachers. The idea came from other Ontario leagues that have taken similar steps to prevent parents from yelling at umpires, many of whom are just […]
A Symbol of Survival: Red Pine Peels and Ojibwe Canoe Factories | Great Lakes Now
“Nibi Chronicles,” a monthly Great Lakes Now feature, is written by Staci Lola Drouillard. A Grand Portage Ojibwe direct descendant, she lives in Grand Marais on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior. Her nonfiction books “Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe” and “Seven Aunts” were published 2019 and 2022, and the children’s story “A Family Tree” in 2024.