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London Free Press

Heavy rains flooding Harris Park? Amid climate change, get used to it

Heavy rains flooding Harris Park? Amid climate change, get used to it
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Shoreline fixes coming to Harris Park won’t prevent floods like the one that happened last week after near-record rain left the downtown-area greenspace and its walkways submerged. The Harris Park shoreline restoration project, instead, will replace old erosion prevention measures with naturalized infrastructure to “protect the shoreline into the future,” city hall officials say. While […]

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Experts predict moderate Lake Erie toxic algae bloom | Great Lakes Echo

Experts predict moderate Lake Erie toxic algae bloom | Great Lakes Echo
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By Gabrielle Nelson Lake Erie’s annual algae bloom has begun to form weeks ahead of schedule off the coast of southeast Michigan, but scientists say they expect only a moderate bloom this year. “There was scum off Monroe,” said Richard Stumpf, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration oceanographer who leads the federal government’s bloom forecasting […]

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Owen Sound Owen Sound Sun Times

Parents who lost son to suicide striving to help others

Parents who lost son to suicide striving to help others
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Jeff Courage’s parents said they felt comforted and encouraged at the third annual Walk of Courage Saturday morning.  Tawnia and Greg Courage’s 21-year-old son Jeff died by suicide in 2019 while attending Western University in London. The former West Hill student struggled with anxiety in London and couldn’t get help there sometimes, both parents said.  […]