Tag: local
Task force eyed to set city councillor pay for ‘full time task’
Several familiar city hall arguments resurfaced during a Monday committee meeting, and politicians are seeking to resolve them in a review of their pay. Alongside voting to cut their own expense limit by 10 per cent, councillors revisited the part-time versus full-time council debate, and whether they should be paid more for the committees and […]
‘Gave people so much’: Teenage London homicide victim mourned
Candles burned Monday at a memorial to a London teenager in the parking lot of a public housing complex where the 18-year-old died after allegedly being stabbed Friday night. People close to Abdul Hashim, known to his friends as âZeko,” remember the Sir Wilfrid Laurier secondary school graduate as a hard-working teen with “a heart […]
Gateway welcomes Western medical students
GODERICH – The Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) welcomed four students from Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry on May 29. The day was part of a week-long visit the medical students spent in rural areas to tour the local hospital and explore rural medicine. At Gateway CERH’s office, this […]
Widow testifies to shock, fear after husband’s fatal shooting
St. THOMAS â The terrible, decade-old memories appeared to be as fresh to Eva Willer Frigo as the day she saw her husband shot to death. âThere was a shot,â she said, and paused. âAnd Don was on the ground.â The 56-year-old widow of Caledon businessperson Donato Frigo began her testimony Monday at the Superior […]
Neighbours stunned by woman’s slaying, decry violence in public housing
Neighbours at a London public housing apartment building are expressing grief over the death of a 62-year-old woman in what police say was the city’s third homicide of the year.
Dyer: South Africa may be getting second chance
Cyril Ramaphosa is the president of South Africa again, but everything else is different.
Legacies live on as Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame reopens at Owen Sound legion Sunday
Music has a funny way of distorting time. When the Ridge River Ramblers started into Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl Sunday afternoon at the grand reopening of the Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame at the Royal Canadian Legion in Owen Sound you could close your eyes and imagine a time before the fire when […]
Celebrity chef with long resume opens Southwestern Ontario eatery
Award-winning chef Shane Straiko recently opened his first restaurant, Straiko’s by the Lake, in Port Burwell
Vigil held for London teen killed two days after high school graduation
More than a dozen people held a vigil Saturday night to mourn an 18-year-old Londoner who graduated high school only two days before being killed, with grieving friends remembering him as a friendly and energetic young man. Abdul Hashim, known to his friends as âZeko,â died Friday night after he was stabbed in the parking […]
Billy Bishop Museum to host ceremony for honoured local veterans
The Billy Bishop Museum is hosting a plaque return ceremony for the 2023 Honouring Our Local Veterans inductees. On Wednesday at 4 p.m., the honoured veterans and their families will receive the plaques that have been touring the community since the induction ceremony on Oct. 29, 2023. The plaques have made stops at Heritage Place […]