Owen Sound Sun Times

South Bruce residents divided as DGR voting nears end

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Teeswater’s residents are divided by the prospect of burying spent nuclear fuel in a deep, underground vault, people said in interviews outside the community’s post office Monday.  Nuclear Waste Management Organization has secured  land for a possible DGR site northwest of Teeswater, part of South Bruce. If the area is selected, the NWMO would build […]

Owen Sound Sun Times

Honouring our Local Veterans ceremony brings family together

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West Coast artist Helen Downing-Hunter was just a newborn when the RAF Lancaster her father James Downing was piloting crashed in July 1944 while conducting nighttime air operations against Stuttgart, Germany, during the Second World War.  But now, some 80 years later, it is through her late father’s war heritage that she has reconnected with family in Owen […]

Goderich Signal Star

Never Shall Their Glory Fade details the history of Huron’s cenotaphs

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HURON – Just in time for Remembrance Day, a new book by prize-winning photographer Conrad Kuiper and local historian David Yates illustrates through pictures and stories the story of Huron County’s cenotaphs. A press release describes Never Shall Their Glory Fade: The History of Huron County’s Cenotaphs as an important contribution to an important era […]

Hockey Junior Hockey London Free Press

Rookie London Knights forward’s work ethic earning locker-room praise

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Cohen Bidgood earned the ultimate thumbs up from the London Knights organization this week. He was named the hardest-working player for the first month of the OHL season by his teammates. “Every night, I’m just trying to help and play my role,” the 17-year-old forward said. “Not everyone can be a 50-goal scorer like (Easton) […]

London Free Press Sports

Pickleball booms, and a new London facility opens its doors: ‘Amazing sport’

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Having just come off the court at London’s newest pickleball facility, Kathleen Steele is sweating up a storm – but she’s not too out of breath to talk about Smash. “It’s a great atmosphere,” said Steele, who has played pickleball for 12 years in and around London. “I’ve already run into so many people I’ve […]