-Denise Freeman and Edward Marchewka
We lived on a little farmlette near Newmarket, affectionately called Falling Down Farms. It was time to retire. We went online and looked in a wide circle radiating from our home. East and west, too built up and pricey, north , the same until we ventured further north and west to Owen Sound. When we had a little snoop, we found this charming town with a Carnegie library and three independent bookstores. Perfect. We booked a realtor to see a property within walking distance of downtown. My sensible husband cautioned me to put on my poker face, but when I walked into this dear little Ontario style house and grabbed his arm, "This is it, I love it", he surrendered and we bought that same day. Poor guy. We expected to settle in with books and our dog and drift into contented retirement.
Our first excursion took us to the River Cafe, where we were adopted by a big friendly Australian and his wife, who said "welcome, nice to have some new folks come to town". Within weeks we were bouncing around at....
This week the Grey Bruce Health Unit received laboratory test results confirming influenza A in a resident of southern Grey County. This is the first confirmed case of influenza (flu) in Grey Bruce this season. Health care providers in Grey Bruce have been notified and will perform testing as required.
Flu activity has been unusually quiet this season with 279 laboratory confirmed cases within the province between September 1, 2015 and January 2, 2016 (as compared with over 1,000 cases reported for the same period last year). [source: Ontario Respiratory Pathogen Bulletin] However, presence of the disease can be expected to increase at any time.
Symptoms of flu may include: headache, chills and cough, followed rapidly by ...
- Written by Anne Käärid
Originally printed in the Owen Sound DIA (Downtown Improvement Area) Newsletter,
October 2015 edition
I had the great pleasure of visiting a scarcely publicized community gem in the heart of Downtown Owen Sound, known as Union Place. This program, located at the back of the Canadian Mental Health Association's offices, is not your typical drop-in brunch and social recreation program, but a thriving community of people who gather in a spirit of cooperation and mutual support.
The social recreational programming at Union Place is for adults 18 and over and works with individuals who are diagnosed with a serious mental illness. I was struck by the real sense of serenity in this unassuming space, and the happy faces on the patrons, the kitchen staff, volunteers, and of course the CMHA staff. The Brunch Program offers employment opportunities to those that are members, where they produce
We came. We saw. We painted.
Over the past two years, Holger Majorahn, Jennifer Stenberg and their canine friends, Diego and Panda, criss-crossed throughout eastern and western Canada in their trusty (well, most of the time) Roadtrek on an unforgettable adventure.
What started out as a discovery voyage - a chance to see and paint some of Canada's most incredible scenery - turned out to be much more. The separate trips, first west and then east, took a total of three months and....
wouldurather…, a contest for young adults in Grey Bruce aimed at supporting them to quit smoking, reduce their smoking, or just stay smoke-free, returns for 2016. The contest offers a chance to win one of eight cash prizes of up to $2,500.
The six-week contest targets the high rates of smoking among young adults ...
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