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Dad desperately tried to save teen swimmer now missing at Port Stanley: Friend
PORT STANLEY â A London father, seeing his two sons struggling in the water at the main beach here, waded into the surf in a desperate attempt to save them even though he can’t swim, a family friend says. Lifeguards were able to save the dad and his 17-year-old son, but they were unable to […]
Search resumes for teenage London swimmer missing in Lake Erie
PORT STANLEY â The search resumed Monday for a missing 14-year-old London swimmer in Lake Erie, off the main beach here, with police warning volunteers to stay away amid stormy conditions. âThe family and the OPP would like to thank the volunteers for their search efforts to date. However, due to the potential of adverse […]
London swim star Maggie Mac Neil eyes Olympic history at Paris Games
Never underestimate Maggie Mac Neil
Police, volunteers search Lake Erie for missing Port Stanley swimmer
PORT STANLEY â Police launched an extensive search through Lake Erie around this popular beach town after a swimmer entered the water on Sunday afternoon and didn’t resurface. It was about 2:30 p.m. when the main beach â typically filled with huge crowds on sunny summer weekends â was cleared. Six Ontario Provincial Police cruisers, […]
Hundreds take part in Meaford Harbour 5-km run/walk
By the time the Meaford Harbour 5-km run and walk began at 9 a.m. on Saturday, the sun was beating down and the temperature had passed the 20 degrees Celcius mark. But that didn’t stop a team of five dedicated Meaford firefighters from taking on the race, each wearing a near complete set of bunker […]
Dyer: Pragmatism, not pity, should guide Democrats as Joe Biden flounders
It really doesnât matter whether Joe Biden is in peak condition intellectually during a second term as president. He did some useful things in his first term, but his main job now is to stop Donald Trump from coming back. If he succeeded in doing that and went gaga immediately afterwards, the ship of state […]
Driver, 23, dead after vehicle strikes tree at rural intersection
One person is dead following a crash in rural Elgin County, Ontario Provincial Police say. Police and emergency crews responded to a serious crash involving a single passenger vehicle that collided with a tree shortly before 7 p.m. on Friday, Elgin OPP said. The lone occupant, a 23-year-old from St. Thomas, was pulled from the […]
‘We were chosen’: 122 newborns, one couple’s epic foster care journey
Don and Nancy Matthews, now in their 70s, fostered a small village of infants over the years. Only reluctantly has the Southwestern Ontario couple stopped. LFP’s Randy Richmond reports STRATFORD â Nancy Matthews always wanted a lot of babies. The love they need, the love they give â she can list any number of reasons […]
Driver charged after crash in Owen Sound that sent 5 to hospital
A driver has been charged after a two-vehicle crash on Owen Sound’s east side on July 7 sent five people to hospital. The collision occurred at the intersection of 8th Avenue East and 20th Street East at about 8 p.m., when a mid-sized Kia SUV that was travelling west on 20th Street. A Volkswagen SUV […]
Lend a hand while Owen Sound booster Jan Chamberlain is out of action
In small towns across Canada, women are truly community heroes. In our small town of Owen Sound, one amazing woman leader stands out – Jan Chamberlain – who has made civic pride her life-long career. Now in her 80s, Jan’s efforts remain full of passion and purpose, building on her keen sense of belonging to […]