Tag: sun
Growing Concerns: Portulaca versatile, low maintenance, heat tolerant
Here are a few plants I overlooked in the spring but will try now and perhaps they will make it onto my list of next year.
Summerfolk preparing to entertain Owen Sound
It’s two weeks until Summerfolk, the 49th annual music, arts and crafts outdoor festival on the west shore of Owen Sound. Organizers are arranging which performers will stay in which hotel rooms, the lanyards for volunteers are being printed and their assignments are going out, festival artistic director James Keelaghan said by phone Friday. There’s […]
Words of praise, comfort at vigil for London homicide victim
Dajana Lukic was overcome with emotion hearing about all the ways, both large and small, her brother touched people’s lives. One man described how Darko Lukic would give him a cigarette and listen to him during his darkest days. A woman recalled how Lukic was always kind to her young children. These were just a […]
Owen Sound’s violent crime severity index two-thirds higher in 2023
Owen Sound’s violent crime severity index soared in 2023 over the year before. Unlike the conventional crime rate, the violent crime severity index is weighted, with more serious but less frequent offences, like first-degree murder, given a CSI rating 280 times greater than property theft, for instance. The city’s crime severity index was 123.41 in […]
COMMENTARY: Tons of plastic trash litters Great Lakes beaches — Why not hold manufacturers responsible? – Great Lakes Commission
Momentum for transitioning away from single use plastic is building in the Great Lakes. The Alliance for the Great Lakes is calling for implementing extended producer responsibility policies — holding producers responsible […]
Solar storm may serve up another view of northern lights
If you missed seeing the aurora borealis back in May, Mother Nature may give you a second chance at enjoying the northern lights this week, if the weather co-operates, that is. London, with all of Ontario, is under the aurora borealis view line, meaning the northern lights could be visible for two or three nights […]
When the Heat Is On, Water Can Still Be Off in Great Lakes Cities | Great Lakes Now
By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue
When an early summer heat wave enveloped the Great Lakes region last month, Cleveland officials stepped in to offer relief.
They reminded residents of the availability of splash pads for outdoor water recreation. And they extended hours at air-conditioned recreation centers designated as public places to cool off.
Grey-Bruce athletes dazzle at Owen Sound triathlon
Athletes from across Grey-Bruce put their stamp on the Owen Sound Subaru Triathlon at Kelso Beach at Nawash Park on Sunday. The local area was well represented at this year’s event, which included Olympic- and sprint-distance triathlons, duathlons, swim-bike events and relay races, and many were standing on the podium after crossing the finish line. […]
Lifelike field surgery gets double takes at re-enactment
Crysler’s Farm is re-enacted in full period dress, with weapons and artillery of the day, and encampments of both soldiers and civilians
Cardboard boats take to the water off Southampton
Despite a big 20-boat turnout in the Lap for Loot event at the cardboard boat races in Southampton on Saturday, cousins Henry Small and Isla Oyarce showed that they still got it. For the second year in a row, the duo from Toronto paddled to the top cash prize in the headline event at the races, […]