by Kelly Babcock
Thursday, September 10th, 9PM 'til 11PM, West5 at the Avalon Jazz Lounge & Patio, 229 9th Street E., Come hear jazz standards performed by the area's best youth ensemble. Admission: Pay what you can
Friday, September 11th, from 4PM to 6PM, at The Bleeding Carrot, 945 Main St., join host Kelly Babcock of Hot Black Coffee for the Friday Afternoon Coffee House & Open Mic. Bring your voice, your instrument (guitar, mandolin, and piano available for use), your ears, or all three and either entertain us, enjoy the entertainment, or do both. Admission is free, come enjoy the Bleeding Carrot's hospitality
Friday, September 11th, from 9PM 'til 11PM, at the Avalon Jazz Lounge & Patio, 229 9th Street E., ET Rhino. Put on your dancing shoes, for the ever so popular electric jazz funk band is ...
By Cathy Hird
The calendar and the weather have gifted us with one last week of summer. With school not starting until next week, children and teachers have this extra space. We can all put off the regular routines of meetings and fall programs, and enjoy warm days. Even if we have to go to work this week, evenings will be comfortable for gardening, barbequing or just relaxing.
September is, however, the most purpose-filled month of the year. I am a little afraid that we will pack all the start-up events into a shortened period. Back in June when I was setting up fall meetings, this week was ignored and everything was pushed into the 22 days that follow Labour Day.
In the summer with people taking holidays, it is hard to...
-by Hub staff
The Twitter-length description of the Unist'ot'en Camp in coastal British Columbia seems to be "Indigenous people, on their ancestors' unsurrendered land, who want no money and no pipelines."
Here at the Hub we see implications for Grey-Bruce from the escalating Unist'ot'en situation. Local discussions about Bill C-51, fossil fuels and climate change, consent for a deep geological repository for nuclear waste and on-going land claims may all be affected by the actions, and reporting, from the Unist'ot'en Camp.
Chris Albinati, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Green Party candidate, offered the following statement on the current situation.
"I fully support the Unist'ot'en Camp as they assert and exercise their laws over their unceded territory as part of their inherent right to self-determination as Indigenous peoples. I acknowledge that the Unist'ot'en are not "protesting" as the media and other institutions like the RCMP have attempted to portray, but that they are rightfully occupying their land.
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker says he is concerned that the cost of living in Ontario is getting costlier every day. He says the increase is thanks in part to the provincial Liberal government's "nickel-and-dime" hikes to user fees like increased fees for driver and vehicle licences and new user fees on all hunting and angling licenses.
"The taxpayers will not receive any direct benefit in service from these fee increases." says Walker, adding that the 400-plus user fees net the province about $2 billion a year in extra revenues.
Walker says his party most recently demanded...
source: Media Release
The Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library is thrilled to announce that two local artists will jointly hold the position of Owen Sound Poet Laureate for the next term. Rob Rolfe and Larry Jensen have been appointed Owen Sound Poets Laureate 2015 to 2017. "It was very heartening to have five other strong submissions from all over the region," said former Poet Laureate Liz Zetlin. "Larry Jensen and Rob Rolfe have the most impressive combination of experience and vision for the Poet Laureate project," she said.
The Owen Sound Poet Laureate is chosen by the Poet Laureate Advisory Committee. Zetlin, who chairs the three-member committee, said that at first they had some reservations about accepting a joint application. "Having two poets laureate is unprecedented," she said. "We agreed to consider Rob and Larry as a duo only if their combined application reflected something truly unique. And then they blew us away and we had no doubts."
Rolfe and Jensen plan to expand on a collaboration that began about two years ago, developing projects that fuse the spoken word, songs, lyrics and poetry with instrumental music to explore working class stories of Grey-Bruce/Owen Sound, Mudtown and beyond. "We're very pleased because we had an idea of what we wanted to do," said Rolfe.
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