Tag: money
One World Festival celebrates diversity in Grey-Bruce
Hundreds of youth from across Grey-Bruce descended on the Owen Sound River District on Wednesday to celebrate diversity and inclusion. The youngsters were taking part in the 14th annual One World Festival, where numerous community groups came together to continue the work of building respectful relationships throughout the community and beyond. Colleen Purdon, a member […]
Most hospitals in Grey-Bruce reducing or ending chaplain services
Hospital spiritual care — provided by chaplains who listen and help people deal with anxieties and concerns when facing life’s difficult moments — has undergone an “upheaval” in Grey-Bruce. Brightshores Health System is taking the service in-house, by hiring a full-time spiritual care leader and two part-time spiritual care providers to cover its seven sites. […]
North Stars look to flip the script as OJBLL playoffs start this weekend
Riding a seven-game winning streak the Owen Sound North Stars junior B team will try to do something that hasn’t been done since the Black Eyed Peas were topping the charts — win an Ontario Junior B Ontario Lacrosse league playoff series. The North Stars open their first-round series with the Hamilton Bengals, Saturday, at […]
New school names, field trips, staff meals: Trustees grind for savings
The cash-strapped Thames Valley District school board may pause the school renaming process to save some money as it faces a $7.6-million budget shortfall. The region’s largest school board had been facing an $18.5-million deficit, though it was reduced by more than half through proposed job cuts and other measures. Renaming schools, part of a […]
Community input sought for cleaned-up lakes, shorelines | Great Lakes Echo
It’s taken over 30 years and $80 million to restore Muskegon Lake and a few nearby smaller bodies of water.
Decades of pollution and rapid urbanization created ecological problems so severe that the lake was designated a “Great Lakes Area of Concern” by the U.S. and Canada in 1987.
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Nature has clues to solve environmental problems | Great Lakes Echo
Human engineering solves age-old problems each day.
But the natural environment has been engineering solutions to solve problems for thousands of years. People are catching on.
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Scammers take more than $383,000 from Huron County residents
Huron County OPP are reporting two scam incidents, resulting in two people losing over $383,000.
Province sitting on surplus, while municipalities struggle to pay expenses
Municipalities in the province are struggling to raise enough money to cover their expenses while Ontario is sitting on significant surpluses, according to the executive director of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario.