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Looking for a cool sanctuary to live? One just hit the market
Why settle for a regular house for your next home when you can have a little slice of heaven?
LHSC bringing in executive who helped turn around Brockville hospital
An executive who helped a Brockville hospital out of a financial hole is joining London Health Sciences Centre as it grapples with a projected $150-million deficit. The board of directors at Brockville General Hospital announced Nick Vlacholias, the hospital’s president and chief executive officer, is taking a job at LHSC. Vlacholias has accepted an executive […]
Chapman’s makes major donation to new Beavercrest school
With the new Beavercrest Community School construction well underway, Chapman’s Ice Cream has stepped up with a major donation to fund some of the essentials of the new institution. The company, which was a driving force in ensuring the school would remain in the community, has announced a $500,000 donation to go towards features like […]
A spectacular failure: The “Salt Combines” of Huron
Peter McEwan and Sam Platt’s discovery of salt in the Maitland River flats in May 1866 ignited a salt boom in Southwestern Ontario. A lot of southern Ontario was on the Michigan salt bed that stretched from Kincardine to Windsor and over to central Michigan. It was an extraordinary find of an inexhaustible mineral vital […]
Cheryl Porter’s vision for the future of water | Great Lakes Now
Great Lakes Now’s Anna Sysling spoke with Cheryl Porter, Chief Operating Officer of Water and Field Services at the Great Lakes Water Authority and the first African American president of the American Water Works Association (AWWA).
With 28 years of experience in the water sector, Porter shares her inspiring journey from junior chemist in Detroit to leading the AWWA.