My father was an English and music teacher who considered television to be a disastrous curse on humanity. We were the last family in the community to have one in the 1950's. I had to sneak out to my friend John's home to watch Sagebrush Trail. Father finally acquiesced but insisted that we only watch the Hallmark specials and Toronto Maple Leaf hockey games.
In the early 1960's John F. Kennedy was the first president to regularly use television for communication with our fellow citizens. Yet he also spoke out about the potential misuse of this new medium. My father felt vindicated.
The internet was established in the 1970's with essentially no mechanisms to
Letter to the editor,
I honestly don't understand why the Owen Sound Chamber of Commerce needs to oppose the minimum wage increase that Premier Wynne is proposing for Ontario. In the world of a competitive marketplace, it simply doesn't make sense.
If I were in business, one of the few things that would matter is competing on a level playing field. If I must buy my materials at a cost greater then my competitors I would be in big trouble. Of course...
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Today next to Owen Sound's busiest east-west corridor, I was delighted to see a happy gay couple on a prominent billboard.
The advertisement, which is promoting DC Taylor Jewellers, shows a man kissing another man on the cheek. Next to them is the phrase "A diamond for every love."
But why is this important?
After all,...
The second of three Goods Exchange Days for 2017 will be taking place on Saturday July 22. It's like a City-wide Free Yard Sale.
Goods Exchange Day is an enjoyable way to divert usable items and materials from landfill disposal. It is also a great way to get rid of unwanted stuff without the hassle of having to put on your own garage sale.
We ask that City residents place unwanted but still usable items at the curb in front of their homes after ....
Lisa Leona Maas was 22 years old and 5 months pregnant when she was last seen alive on July 17th 1988, leaving a male friend's residence alone in her car after a farm house party in the area of Annan, Woodford and Owen Sound.
Her green 1976 Plymouth Fury was found two days later in Annan stuck down an impassable road, and approximately two weeks after Lisa went missing, her license and some were personal papers were located several kilometres east of the vehicle location.
Over the course of 29 years, Lisa's parents, detective agencies and OPP have worked to locate Lisa, but no further trace of her has been found.
For the past two years, Owen Sounder Nick Oldrieve and a small group of volunteers have been...
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