Participation, Empathy, Advocacy, Community and Empowerment: these are the values the YMCA of Owen Sound Grey Bruce is looking for in the next recipient of the YMCA Peace Medallion. Residents are invited to visit ymcaowensound.on.ca and nominate a deserving person for this award before Monday, October 17. Hard copies of the nomination package are available at our YMCA Health, Fitness & Aquatics facility.
YMCA Peace Week invites people of all ages to reflect on peace, to talk, and to take action, individually and with others. During Peace Week, November 19 – 26, the presentation of Peace Medallions takes place across Canada to honour individuals or groups who...
Students from Sydenham Community and Bayview Public Schools in Owen Sound are already becoming acquainted in anticipation of the merging of the two school communities in September 2017. As part of the 163rd Annual Sydenham Fall Fair on Thursday, September 22nd, organizers, staff and students from Sydenham invited their future school peers from Bayview to come to Grey Roots Museum & Archives for a taste of what this historic tradition is all about.
Arguably the oldest and last Canadian school-based fall event of its kind still in operation,...
Bruce Trail Day is an annual event celebrating Canada's oldest and longest footpath, hosted by the Bruce Trail Conservancy and each of the nine Bruce Trail Clubs. Each BTC Club hosts free guided...
By Cathy Hird
In the misty grey light on Sunday morning, I drove around a corner to find a scarlet maple tree shining luminous above a pool of still water. I am sure that it was green when I drove that way the week before, but that morning every leaf shone deep red.
Hints of fall colour have peeked at us for a week or two. On one branch reaching out toward the road, the leaves had turned orange-red as if flames licked that one corner of the tree. A splash of yellow appeared in a narrow road lined with green. A few bright leaves dotted the lawn. The transformation from growth to rest, summer to winter, had begun.
It always seems as if
-by Lori Twining
Some people call me a Librophile and others stick with labeling me as a Bibliophile, but no matter how deep my love goes for books, I seriously can't get enough of them. I have this obsessive compulsion to read ALL the books in this world before I die... I'm in panic mode, trying to make this happen. I buy them, borrow them, beg for them, and at the moment, I hesitantly draw the line at stealing them (although,...
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