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Students and seniors plan, plant and celebrate ‘food forest’
Wiarton has its own “food forest” alongside its community garden now. The community garden’s raised beds are used to grow annual fruits and vegetables. The food forest has perennials including elderberries, currents, pears, hazel nuts, echinacea and mint, wild strawberry, rhubarb and lemony seedless sorel. Like produce from the raised beds, the food forest’s production […]
Birds of prey pilot deterring geese at Port Elgin harbour
There’s a new sheriff in town to take care of Port Elgin’s pooping geese problem. More than 100 Canada geese are leaving their mark on the grass and walkway, making for unpleasant walking for harbour visitors. But the birds might have met their match: Michael Thibert’s three Harris hawks, which stand guard while tethered to […]
Kidney donation won’t cause long-term health woes: London-led study
Donating a kidney does not lead to any negative long-term health problems, a just-published international study led by London researchers has found. The research found that there was little difference in rates of high blood pressure, kidney function or other physical or mental health function between donors and healthy people after seven years. The study […]
Loved ones’ pain expressed at sentencing of driver in Girl Guides crash
Ten of the 17 expected victim impact statements were read in a London courtroom on Thursday morning as sentencing began for an elderly driver who crashed into a troop of Girl Guides, killing an eight-year-old.
Stolen Mastiff-Shepherd reunited with family
Jaxx, the one and a half-year-old Mastiff-Shepherd, was stolen with a pickup truck from a parking lot in north London on June 6.