Residents in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound will see repairs to critical infrastructure thanks to a joint funding announcement from the governments of Ontario and Canada.
The new Small Communities Fund is open to all communities with a population under 100,000 people.
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP, who is attending the annual Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) conference in Niagara Falls this week, welcomed the news that sees the provincial and federal government working together to support the growth of our region.
"I'm hearing a common theme from mayors and councillors at AMO that our communities have been shortchanged by the province for years," Walker said. "Today's announcement is good news – it's one type of investment rural Ontario needs to turn things around and help to attract new business and jobs to the region, and I encourage all local governments to submit their application as soon as possible."
More than $500 million is up for grabs under the new Small Communities Fund funded by the federal and provincial governments.
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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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 ...
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