Tag: United Way Bruce Grey
United Way Bruce Grey preparing to distribute backpacks
More than 2,000 backpacks containing school supplies to be handed out across the two counties this year
United Way to receive donations for Negro Creek park project
Group creating park to honour the Black settlers who began arriving in area in 1840s
Grey-Bruce backpack program registration open until Aug. 24
This year the United Way is testing an “insides only” option with agency and school partners whose clients and students may receive a backpack.
Owen Sound downtown drug-use arrests garner support, raise concerns
For the first time in years, Owen Sound police recently targeted public drug use. Will the move address public safety concerns and perceptions, or might it drive people to use drugs in secret, where they may be at greater risk?
We Remember Them event aims to honour the dead and aid the afflicted
It’s been six years since Gelja Sheardown’s husband died of a fentanyl overdose in their Owen Sound home. The mother of three children, including young twins, started the city’s We Remember Them event to honour and recognize victims of the opioid crisis a year after her husband, Barrett Warwick, died. On Saturday, the fifth-annual event […]