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Grassroots group aims to collect 100,000 of these for London’s homeless
Minutes earlier, 519 Pursuit’s Michelle Boissonneault and Patty O’Neill had finished handing lunches to homeless campers at Watson Street Park. “We ran out of meals. We had to turn people away today,” Boissonneault said, as she and O’Neill posed for a photograph. That’s the level of need hundreds of Londoners are facing as winter approaches, […]
Achoooo! Flu bug lingers as cool weather, cold season looms
No, itâs not your imagination. That stubborn cold is lingering, that nagging cough just wonât go away and flu season is not even in full swing yet. The Middlesex-London Health Unit issued a reminder that as we head indoors and gather together, local residents must also guard against flu and Covid-19. âWe’re monitoring a number […]
Pedestrian seriously injured in collision in downtown St. Thomas
A pedestrian was sent to hospital after a collision in downtown St. Thomas Wednesday morning, police say. The pedestrian was seriously injured when they were struck by a vehicle on Talbot Street between White and Southwick streets just before 10 a.m., police said. No information about the driver and the circumstances leading to the collision […]
Tenant living ‘one day at a time’ as eviction deadline passes
Evicted from her apartment, Carol Rogers is glad to have found a new place to live, but fears other tenants who stayed past the eviction date in the building she used to live in could face homelessness. Ken Thompson, one of as many of five tenants still in their units at 435 Nelson St., shares […]
Demand growing among homeless, hungry, groups warn
Downtown Owen Sound’s soup kitchen will have served as many meals this year by Thursday as it served in all of 2023. “We have seen a drastic increase in the number of people that are coming for meals,” said Colleen Trask Seaman, the executive director at Owen Sound Hunger and Relief Effort, or OSHaRE, at […]