Tag: Kincardine
Good Food Box program expanding to feed need
The rising cost of living is a big reason a local program that provides low-cost or no-cost monthly boxes of fresh fruit and vegetables to anyone who needs them is extending operations through the summer in some communities. Normally most of the 19 Grey Bruce Good Food Box pickup locations take July and August off, […]
BAA athletes medal at provincial track and field championships
Ava Moric is a provincial high school champion. The John Diefenbaker student won the novice women’s 1,500-metre race Friday at York University’s Toronto Track and Field Centre in a time of 4:42.33, almost a full three seconds quicker than the second-place finisher. The Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) track and field championships in […]
BAA gets back on track in return to Kincardine
The Bluewater Athletic Association’s track and field championships returned the Davidson Centre in Kincardine Thursday after two years on the shelf due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Athletes from across the region took part in the full-day meet on a scorcher of a day. The top four finishers in each event qualified for next week’s Central […]
ANALYSIS: Is mid-debate ‘c-word’ the nadir of misogyny in local politics?
Female municipal politicians past and present are calling out a vulgar four-letter insult uttered during a recent Kincardine council debate, with one former London city councillor launching a letter-writing campaign to push for accountability.
Kincardine school getting more classrooms, child-care centre
St. Anthony’s School in Kincardine is getting an eight-classroom addition and a four-room child-care centre addition. The province announced this week it was providing more than $13 million for the project as part of its capital program to provide better learning spaces. The project will create 190 elementary student spaces, 78 child-care spaces, four child-care […]
Bruce Power and suppliers donate $2M to Kincardine hospital redevelopment campaign
The Kincardine hospital redevelopment campaign is getting a $2 million injection of funds from the nearby nuclear power generator. Bruce Power announced Monday it is donating $1.5 million to the Building Health Care for Generations Kincardine Hospital Redevelopment Capital Campaign, while the company’s supplier partners will donate an additional $500,000 to the campaign through Bruce […]