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City renews agreement with YMCA for 20 years

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Owen Sound council renewed its operating agreement with YMCA of Owen Sound Grey Bruce on Monday.  The charitable organization will continue to offer its health and fitness programs and provide exercise facilities at the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre for the next 20 years.  “The city could not manage and operate the YMCA facility at […]

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A Symbol of Survival: Red Pine Peels and Ojibwe Canoe Factories | Great Lakes Now

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A Symbol of Survival: Red Pine Peels and Ojibwe Canoe Factories

“Nibi Chronicles,” a monthly Great Lakes Now feature, is written by Staci Lola Drouillard. A Grand Portage Ojibwe direct descendant, she lives in Grand Marais on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior. Her nonfiction books “Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe” and “Seven Aunts” were published 2019 and 2022, and the children’s story “A Family Tree” in 2024.

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