For our aging community, especially those with loved ones on a long-term care waiting list, closure of a facility to new admissions is of particular concern.
At 160 beds, the new Southbridge Owen Sound represents over 37% of all long-term care resident spaces in the city.
In collaboration with the Ontario Health Coalition, the Grey Bruce County Health Coalition, Co-chaired by Norah Beatty and Brenda Scott, organized a very successful mass protest against the privatization of our public hospitals to for-profit hospitals and clinics. This protest was a continuation of the fight back that saw over 10,000 people in Grey and Bruce Counties say “No” in a referendum last May. More then 400,000 people in the province also voted no.
Once again we are delighted to share the work of artist David Robinson for the month of October.
On the farm, we had a healthy, majestic elm tree.
It towered over the back corner of the property.
Like the one near Clavering on Highway 6, this ancient elm escaped the Dutch Elm plague. It seemed to be immune.
I presume it still stands, a majestic memory of the many elms that once graced this landscape ...
- by Dennis Thompsett
The big secret is that the stairs were there at all. The City installed and maintained them to give access to all the working men needed for all the factories around the Bay. Their women and children got to live up in the clean air and water and they got a quick way to work. Which was a secret indeed. ...
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