At the August 4 session of Grey County Council Kim Wingrove was named the new Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of Grey County. Ms. Wingrove has over 20 years of diverse experience in public administration at both the provincial and municipal level. Ms. Wingrove will officially assume her position on September 28, 2015.
"Council is excited to welcome Ms. Wingrove as the new head administrator for Grey County," said Grey County Warden Kevin Eccles. "Ms. Wingrove is an experienced leader with a wide range of skills and qualities that make her an excellent fit for the position. We look forward to working with her."
Ms. Wingrove's past work experience includes...
Three top winners have been selected from over 75 entries in the sixth annual Guys Caring for Kids Photo Contest. The photo contest challenges individuals to capture the visual stories of men in caring relationships with children. While men are continually involved in the lives of children, the majority of images of adults engaging with children still feature women. Several local organizations have come together, under the umbrella of Dad Central Grey Bruce, to encourage the role of men in the lives of children.
The Top Three submissions for 2015 are:
1. "Daddy and Me" by Dale Hamill
The severe weekend weather kept the staff of the Owen Sound Police Service's Emergency Communication Branch hopping.
As the severe weather hit across Grey and Bruce Counties Sunday afternoon, additional staff was called into the Owen Sound police communications centre to handle the barrage of 9-1-1 and administrative calls.
The Owen Sound Police Communication Branch handles all 9-1-1 calls in Grey and Bruce counties, in addition to dispatching for five municipal police services and eighteen fire services covering twenty-six Fire halls in Grey and Bruce.
Over the two waves of the storm on Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening,
by Jon Farmer
In 2003, when I was 13, I begged my parents to take me to see Ron Sexsmith at Summerfolk. Despite my best efforts, I couldn't convince them. The next year I attended Summerfolk as a volunteer. I decided I would never miss one again and I haven't.
It's difficult to explain the magic of Summerfolk to someone who has never been. It's more than just good music and gorgeous art in a beautiful setting. It's a catalyst for connections. By the third weekend of August, the season is winding down. Summerfolk is a friendly celebration, a collective farewell to warm days and vacations. Audiences discover new musical loves and artistic treasures. Friendly strangers mingle in front of stages, singing along, and comparing new CDs.
Festivals have natural rhythms and I learned the Summerfolk routine quickly:
Dear Editor
Living in Grey/Bruce, given the space we feel around us, it's hard to get a handle on world population. What does it mean to have 7.3 billion people in the world when you live in our counties? Well, in thinking about it, I decided to consider population density. In Grey/Bruce we have on average 47 people per square mile. While we have folks clustered in smaller areas like Owen Sound, if you spread them out, that kind of makes sense. So what is the population density of the earth? If we take only the arable (capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops) portion of the earth, the population density is 1,354 people per square mile, almost 30X more.
That means, if we wanted to be fair and took our "share" of the world's population, we would have 4.5 million people living in Bruce/Grey. Sounds to me like a scary number and a situation I would never want to face. With 4.5 million people, we would quickly wipe out many of our resources and be in trouble in very big ways.
I personally like the size and space of things up here so I then wondered...
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