Tag: Community
Local emergency services members participate in 9/11 memorial stair climb
Grey-Bruce emergency services personnel gathered at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Sunday morning to suffer in solidarity and in honour of those who climbed up the World Trade Center towers to aid in the evacuation on Sept. 11, 2001, in the moments after commercial airliners slammed into the buildings in a terror attack. Over […]
Walk for Parkinson’s returns to Owen Sound Saturday
Team Ian took Grey-Bruce by storm Saturday. The Walk for Parkinson’s fundraising team in honour and in memory of Ian Shouldice raised nearly $5,000 for the Owen Sound walk, organized by the Parkinson Society of Southwestern Ontario. That’s the most raised by a single team this year, and over a third of the local walk’s […]
Routley: Why a Kamala Harris presidency may not be good news for Canada
It’s likely Kamala Harris would maintain the protectionist economic policies of her two predecessors, Sam Routley of Western University says
Kidney Foundation provides peer support for those with failing kidneys waiting for a transplant
Betty Seminowicz said she felt the need to give back after her brother donated a kidney when hers failed in 2008. On Saturday, Seminowicz was recognized for her volunteer efforts during the Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Walk at Harrison Park in Owen Sound. Her volunteer duties include supporting patients undergoing dialysis treatments and providing peer support […]
City hall bylaw officials blitz six-building apartment cluster, eyeing landlord issues
Six buildings. Seven-hundred apartments. One strategy to ensure London’s rental units are ship-shape. Â City hall bylaw officials blitzed a 700-unit apartment complex at 740-758 Kipps Lane in the cityâs northeast end Saturday, taking a page out of a similar program in Toronto to ensure landlords are complying with property standards. Â “We went to […]