Following up on a story in the summer about breastfeeding in local businesses, The Hub is pleased to announce that a new Breastfeeding Friendly Business Toolkit is now available to assist business and organizations to support both their customers and employees to continue to breastfeed their children. Breastfeeding is one of the most important starts to healthy infant and child development.
"Embracing breastfeeding friendly businesses helps to support the entire community on the road to wellness; and we all want to be healthy!" says Dr. Hazel Lynn, Grey Bruce Medical Officer of Health. "A measure of wellness of a community is reflected in the number of mothers who start and continue breastfeeding."
Launched today by the Grey Bruce Health Unit, the Toolkit
If you've ever visited Grey County during the fall, you know we've got something special here. From blazing colours atop the Niagara Escarpment to warm sunny days topped with crisp fall nights, from bustling farmer's markets to orchards and vineyards tucked away in the Beaver Valley, vibrant galleries in southern Grey and fall harvest menus in the Blue Mountains, fall in Grey County provides a truly epic experience.
This fall, we've been sharing those fall touring opportunities with folks far and wide via a giant Facebook campaign. Since August 25, we've mailed out 3,100 packages with maps, brochures and information to tourists anxious to experience autumn in Grey County . At the heart of our campaign is the Ultimate Fall Colour Adventure Contest which will see one lucky winner receive a fabulous fall tour of Grey County, valued at over $3000. Here are just some of the amazing prizes to be won
The Grey Bruce Geriatric Education Cooperative (GEC) is offering a full-day workshop on end-of-life care for health care providers in retirement homes, long term care and other facilities. Family members of persons caring for loved one who want to learn more about end-of-life care would also find this workshop of interest.
The workshop, Palliative Care: Improving The Quality of Living and Dying, will be offered on Tuesday Oct 6th at Stone Tree in Owen Sound.
For registration details and to register contact the Alzheimer Society of Grey-Bruce.
"This workshop, and others offered by the Education Cooperative, qualify for continuing education credits," said Deborah Barker, Executive Director of the Alzheimer Society of Grey-Bruce.
The Alzheimer Society is one of several partners involved in the cooperative and this workshop is just one example of
Dear Editor,
I am writing about an event that will take place on Saturday , October 17 for the Womens Centre. This is a fundraiser that took place last year for the first time, hosted at Thomboys in Springmount , just west of Owen Sound . I happened upon it last year with no idea what to expect and was pleasantly surprised. In a small community like ours where every non profit organization is fighting for the same limited dollars , it is difficult to come up with an idea that captures the imagination . This is a wear your jeans, enjoy fabulous food that will make dinner unnecessary kind of scavenger hunt/ auction . There is live music and wine and
-by Jonathan Byrd
I grew up with guns. Country guns. Shotguns. .45s and .38s and beer cans on fence posts. That was back before public gun violence became a daily routine. If somebody got shot, it was a drug deal or domestic violence. There were guns all around me, practically under my pillow, and nobody got hurt. No one I know ever threatened another person with a gun. The few violent men I knew fought with their fists. Pulling a gun to settle a score wouldn't be worth the shame. Guns were for targets and critters. It seems like some kind of mythical world now.
From my experience traveling in northern Europe consistently the past few years, I offer a theory that is beginning to take shape in my mind. I'm in the UK now; their gun laws are famously rigid. The Olympic pistol team had to leave the country to practice. Intentional homicide rate is maybe a third to a quarter of the U.S., but I don't think the stringent gun laws are entirely responsible.
More interesting to this essay are other countries I've been to regularly: The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Switzerland. Canada is notably similar in that
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