Tag: rural
Summer food drive needs final push to meet need on peninsula
People have answered Salvation Army Major Mary Millar’s recent food bank plea but more help is needed. “My food bank worker said when saw she the food, like she was in tears because she realized she could give to those families that extra food,” Millar said Thursday. She issued a Facebook callout on July 19 […]
Woman dies after being pulled from Goderich harbour: OPP
A woman from Huron County has died after she was pulled from the water near the Goderich pier on Wednesday. Emergency crews and the Canadian Coast Guard responded shortly before noon to a report of an unconscious person in the water in Goderich, along Lake Huron. The woman was found by the Coast Guard and […]
Crime severity index data for Grey-Bruce, by police service
Statistics Canada’s annual crime severity index and weighted clearance rates for police services in Ontario include data for Grey-Bruce. The conventional crime rate is a measure of crime volume. It adds up all crimes reported by police and divides that total by the population for the area. This means a murder has the same impact […]
Help a click away for tech-challenged London hospital patients
A tech-savvy assistant is helping patients and their caregivers with one-on-one support for virtual care appointments, and it can be as simple as a click of a button.
After years of opioids agony, rural Michigan finds reason for hope | Bridge Michigan
While still inadequate in many communities, addiction services are on the rise, thanks in part to an influx of millions of dollars in opioid settlement funds….