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...
Dear Editor,
Hello, my name is Dawn. I wanted to share my experience with you and your readers.
Let me preface this with I am not looking to induce an ethical debate. For or against doesn't matter to me when relaying my experience to you.
Yesterday I took my 8 year old son to an appointment at LCSC Childrens Hospital. We stayed at the Lamplighter, (which is a fun place for kids, I may add). After my son's appointment, the hotel shuttle picked us up.
On our way back to the hotel, we were approaching an intersection. I wasn't paying attention, until my son screamed "Oh my God!! Is that a ripped up baby?" The attached image is what my baby, and the general public, saw outside a Children's Hospital.
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