Owen Sound Sun Times

Most hospitals in Grey-Bruce reducing or ending chaplain services

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Hospital spiritual care — provided by chaplains who listen and help people deal with anxieties and concerns when facing life’s difficult moments — has undergone an “upheaval” in Grey-Bruce.  Brightshores Health System is taking the service in-house, by hiring a full-time spiritual care leader and two part-time spiritual care providers to cover its seven sites. […]

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Knox Church Kincardine hosting fish fry fundraiser

Knox Church is celebrating 175 years of community service. To continue our mission of community involvement, our church is pleased to hold our annual fish fry on Friday, July 19 from 4:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. Proceeds will go to complete the refurbishment of our elevator that has allowed many to come and to enjoy […]

Goderich Signal Star

Lancaster greeted by large crowds in Goderich

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GODERICH – Aviation and history lovers packed the Goderich Regional Airport and backed up traffic for kilometres on Friday, June 14, to get a glimpse of the return of the Second World War-era Lancaster FM213. The Lancaster touched down at the airport exactly 60 years after it first landed in Goderich, when it was bought […]

Great Lakes Echo

Limited access to health care contributes to higher rural death rates | Great Lakes Echo

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Rural Michigan residents who suffer from a chronic illness that requires specialized treatment may have to drive hours to receive care.

That barrier to access to health care is one reason rural county death rates tend to be higher than their urban counterparts, according to Robert Howe, the medical director of the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department.

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Community input sought for cleaned-up lakes, shorelines | Great Lakes Echo

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It’s taken over 30 years and $80 million to restore Muskegon Lake and a few nearby smaller bodies of water.

Decades of pollution and rapid urbanization created ecological problems so severe that the lake was designated a “Great Lakes Area of Concern” by the U.S. and Canada in 1987.

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