Local author D.J.McIntosh has just completed her Mesopotamian Trilogy with The Angel of Eden. Andrew Armitage says she "is the real thing, a terrific storyteller and creator of readable historical thrillers." She's also a member of the Society for Mesopotamian Studies, Reporters Without Borders and the Ctte to Protect Journalists.
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Students who will miss Georgian College Orientation, which takes place at all campuses on Tuesday, Sept. 8, can become acquainted with the college at Get Connected, a pre-Orientation event. The session on Thursday, Aug. 20 from 9 until 3 will allow students to get a feel for the campus ahead of the first day of classes.
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Source: Media Release
Owen Sound, Ontario – Monday, August 17, 2015 - The City of Owen Sound reminds the public that City Hall, the Library, the Bayshore Community Centre, the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, and the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre are open during regular business hours. These locations provide good opportunities to get out of the heat and cool down.
If you like to be outdoors and have some fun while staying cool, the following are ...
by Kelly Babcock, Hub Staff
A quiet little city in Southwestern Ontario, Owen Sound may appear to the outside world to be a collection of dissimilar purposes held together by geography and good intentions. Is it a tourist destination? An industrial town? A retirement community? An arts enclave? A cultural centre?
Owen Sound is all of those things, and more. But on Monday morning, while the smoke of those recent fires continued to pile up into the sky of a new and terrible day, Owen Sound again showed what it really is. One solid community.
By 5AM the mayor was up and on the ground assisting stalwart firefighters. Police too were on scene, working hard to extinguish the potential for more damage just as surely as the firefighters were working hard to extinguish the blazes of 15 households.
Commuters waited patiently in streets already overcrowded from construction elsewhere, that now were made more congested by the closing of streets for emergency crews to work as they exhausted themselves in the containing and dousing of the conflagrations.
By the next day, Tuesday, the first sounds of a benefit event being planned were heard, with more to follow. How could one benefit possibly be enough, our city seemed to sense without discussion that more would be needed. By Friday the first ...
Congratulations to the Owen Sound Police Services for their quick work in apprehending the arson suspects. Officers came in on days off, from sick leave and holidays for 18-hour shifts to get the job done!
Having practiced criminal law for several years, I have full confidence in our justice system and our Crown Attorney's office in Grey County to deal with these matters.
We are all angry, but this is not the time to think of revenge.
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