Tag: Walkerton

Funds intended for hospice in Walkerton transferred to local group

A group in southern Grey-Bruce which formed to build a hospice in Walkerton has received a nearly $570,000 boost. The money was transferred by Grey-Bruce Hospice Inc., because it was collected to eventually build a satellite hospice in southern Grey-Bruce. When the Owen Sound-based organization turned to focus on its Owen Sound hospice, Chapman House, […]

More emergency room closures in Chesley, Walkerton

Chesley hospital’s emergency department will be closed tonight, Sunday and Monday night, from 5 p.m. until 7 the next morning due to staff shortages. Walkerton hospital’s emergency department will close Monday at 8 p.m. and re-open at 7 the next morning. Both South Bruce Grey Health Centre hospitals have been forced to close “due to […]

News provides ‘immense opportunity’ to build hospice in Walkerton

Saugeen Hospice chairman Carl Kuhnke said his organization’s new charitable status and other news is all favourable for building a new hospice in Walkerton, which will offer free end-of-life care. Residential Hospice Grey Bruce, which runs Chapman House hospice in Owen Sound, was originally going to build a satellite hospice serving southern Grey-Bruce. But about […]

ER’s in Walkerton, Chesley to resume 24-hour service

Walkerton’s emergency department will resume 24-hour coverage May 9 and there’s a plan to expand Chesley’s emergency department to 24-hour service starting June 15. In addition, on May 9 the remaining four acute-care beds will be reopened in Chesley hospital, bringing the total to back eight, and it will return to having 10 alternative-care beds […]

West Grey man gets five years in farm tractor death case

Ronald Oscar Seifried, 60, of West Grey was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for dangerous driving causing death and failing to remain because he drove a farm tractor over his one-time friend. Superior Court Justice Bruce Durno summarized the facts, the victim impacts and walked through a lengthy legal analysis to arrive at […]

Shallow Lake, Walkerton win OHMA championships

A pair of Grey-Bruce minor hockey teams returned home with red hats and medals after a golden weekend at the Ontario Minor Hockey Association championships. The Shallow Lake Lakers under-11 squad dominated the OMHA Tier 3 championship in Windsor finishing a perfect 6-0 and outscoring opponents 48-11 en route to the gold medal and red […]

Brockton seeks minister’s order to expedite housing in business park

Walkerton-area employers need housing that their workers can afford, demand for homes is growing in general and developers want to build it in Walkerton, says Brockton’s mayor. Mayor Chris Peabody said that’s why council voted last week to seek a ministerial zoning order to expedite rezoning some business park lands for residential development in Walkerton. […]

Markdale-area driver gets seven years in fatal motorcycle crash

A Markdale-area woman was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday for criminal negligence causing death after chasing a motorcyclist in her Hummer H3 on May 29, 2019, resulting in a collision and the rider’s death. Sally Darosa, 44, of 735556 West Back Line, was convicted after a trial last year in Walkerton’s Superior Court […]

Guilty pleas in fatal tractor incident; judge to sentence in March

A dispute over a farm wagon between former friends ended when one drove over the other with a tractor, killing him, a Walkerton court heard Wednesday. Ronald Oscar Seifried, 60, pleaded guilty in the Superior Court of Justice to dangerous driving causing death, and to the criminal offence of failing to remain and offer assistance, […]