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Catch the Ace tickets are available from retailers on Thursday afternoons. Those retailers are the Legion Bar, Jean’s Family Restaurant, Edward Fuels, Sleeper’s Bed Gallery, and Instyle Hair Studio, they are $5.00 each. You must have a new ticket for the draw each week. Good Luck everyone. Peter and The Elegants are coming back to […]

Wear your green for the meat draw on Saturday March 19 as we will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day that afternoon. The first meat draw will be at 3pm with the 50/50 draw taking place at 5pm. Get a group of friends together and enjoy the afternoon. You must show your QR code at the […]

Spring is just around the corner, some would say, especially when folks have seen the return of Robins and Gold Finches lately.  Have you noticed that there are quite a few pairs of Bald Eagles and Red Tailed Hawks in the vicinity as well.   Our resident Cotton Tail Bunny has been spotted at our window […]

I am writing this letter to thank the hard working, professional and upstanding men at B& Y Appliances in Kincardine. On Wednesday I walked into the store and was greeted by Richard. I explained that I needed a new fridge as mine had not worked properly for several months and then finally quit. Bill, the […]

Our community again is grieving the loss of dear friend and WI member Janet Rhody who passed away Feb 14.  We will certainly miss Janet’s caring ways and her decorating expertise with any function at our Community Centre.  Our thoughts and prayers are with Wayne and the Rhody family and with other families at this […]

Legion Trivia is back on Friday March 18 at 7pm. Team pre-registration started on Feb 28th at noon, and closes on March 16th at 6pm. Go to the legion bar to register, no more than eight people on a team $40 per team and only the first 18 teams to register will be accepted. You […]

The February meeting of the Purple Grove Women’s Institute was held via Zoom.  It was so good to see our members’ faces and hear them.  President Cheryl Bridge opened the meeting  and we were encouraged and challenged again with the opening ode and Mary Stewart Collect.  Our Secretary Fran Farrell gave us the minutes of […]

Have your say: Following 14 months of public engagement, Natural Resources Canada on Feb. 1 released its draft of a “modernized” federal policy framework on radioactive waste. Now NRCan is seeking written feedback on the draft Policy for Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning – and you can have your say, through April 2, 2022. At OPG, good stewardship of the […]

This colder weather seems to bring the snowy owls and other winter bird sightings to be more frequent. Those of us who have feeders often see to some of our fine feather friends.  Good thing Ground Hog Day was Feb 2nd as Wiarton Willie might have had some trouble with the stormy off and on […]

Bervie Women’s Institute met via Zoom on Wed. Feb. 2nd. President Janice Hewitt opened the meeting with a poem “The Value of a Smile” followed by Betty Jean White playing & everyone singing O Canada and the opening ode and repeating the Mary Stewart Collect.  Twelve members answered the roll call “Something I celebrate in […]