Tag: parents
Funeral set for ‘pioneer’ who helped build London’s Muslim community
When Hanny Shousher arrived in London in 1949 as a 19-year-old from Lebanon, he spoke no English and there were two other Muslim families in the city. When he died at 94 on Saturday, he left behind two mosques and an Islamic association he helped build, and a community in the region of about 35,000 […]
Waterfront festival draws families for afternoon fun
Owen Sound’s waterfront festival Saturday was all about kids. They played on the beach and in the bay, built tall wooden Jenga towers, ran races, climbed into a fire truck and a police cruiser. There were dogs running obstacle courses to watch, a roaming, 7’ 4’’ woman to hug, candy floss to eat […]
So long Papa’s: Family-owned pizzeria closing after 52 years
Tony Buragina’s earliest memory of Papa’s Pizzeria and Restaurant is as a little boy eating spumoni ice cream in a back room as his father and mother worked the restaurant they owned.
Union blames province as London-area Children’s Aid Society cuts jobs
The London-area child welfare agency is cutting jobs and overhauling some services in the face of a “significant” budget shortfall that its union blames on inadequate provincial funding. Nineteen unionized and four management jobs are affected by the shake-up, said the Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex. Its executive director said spending cuts alone, […]
Bruce County Memories – Olympic gold medallist settled in Teeswater
When Teeswater became home to “the world’s first great woman swimmer” you’d think she might talk about her past life. Yet she shrugged off her accomplishments. Her daughter Betty Smith said, “She was so modest, and if her career was discussed, she’d say, ‘Oh, that was a long time ago and I did it because […]
Speeding concerns on reconstructed Inglis Falls Road
Georgian Bluffs will look at taking steps to address speeding concerns on Inglis Falls Road. At its committee of the whole meeting on Wednesday (June 19), council heard from a concerned resident about increased speeding along the road since it was reconstructed in 2020. Cathy Walsh who appeared before council as a delegation, said she […]
London cyclist killed in collision en route to coffee meet-up with friend
A cyclist struck and killed by a vehicle last week was on his way to grab a coffee, said the manâs longtime friend who was waiting for him at the shop
‘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 […]
Baranyai: Time to act against social media harms, even imperfectly
We don’t have conclusive proof social media is dangerous to kids, but as Murthy emphasizes, we also don’t have reliable evidence it’s safe.
Paulgaard: Local stories, told with integrity, should matter to us all
In small town Alberta where I grew up, it was common to see headlines such as The case of the cow in the second-storey window and Coyote captured in town in the local paper.