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 […]

London Free Press

Nursing home set to abruptly close, forcing out residents: ‘Nowhere to go’

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A Southwestern Ontario retirement home where police say some residents were victims of fraud has announced it’s closing its doors in two weeks, leaving its residents’ futures uncertain. Miranda Guitard’s husband’s elderly grandmother is a resident at Trillium Norwich Retirement Home in Norwich, south of Woodstock. She received an email Saturday afternoon from staff alerting […]

London Free Press

LFP ARCHIVES: A ghostly Grand Theatre legend

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In the spirit of the Halloween season, we’re reflecting on what’s arguably London’s most notorious ghostly legend – that the Grand Theatre is haunted by its original owner, Ambrose Small. This story was first published in the Oct. 30, 2009 editions of The London Free Press The ghostly gossip surrounding the Grand Theatre isn’t going […]