The Community Waterfront Heritage Centre (CWHC) is excited to announce the next phase of fundraising, and restoration, which includes the purchase of windows, to remove condensation, protect the 1953 Dining Car from damaging water leaks and provide additional insulation.
CWHC is asking for community support and donations can be made in honour, or memory of a loved one, or by individual and business sponsorship. A donation of $100 or more will be commemorated on a plaque aboard the Dining Car. The goal of the campaign is to raise a minimum of $17000.00.
Owen Sound's favourite downtown event returns on Friday December 4th, with more than 40 businesses participating in "FESTIVE 1st FRIDAY". Each store will do something special for Christmas shoppers: workshops, music, specials and unveilings. Participants will provide wish lists for shoppers to fill out and hand over to that special person who's not sure what to get you for Christmas!
"This is the perfect opportunity to think about yourself and what you would like to see under the tree from Santa," says organizer Camille Cole of Dr. Cobbler.
Hailing back to the days when stores were open on Friday night, this event will showcase boutique downtown businesses. The last event, "FIFTIES 1ST FRIDAY", was a brilliant success and many customers and business owners commented on
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"I'm looking for donations of yarn ..." The bright picture and the Facebook request caught my eye, but not because I am sitting on a large stash of wool. It was the next part – the reason for the yarn - "to make hats...scarfs...sweaters...socks...etc for the refugees coming to the Meaford base."
After the first snow last week, we all dug out our woolies to be ready for the inevitable. Because we all have a collection packed away somewhere. But what if you were arriving here in the midst of your very first Canadian winter? Cozy clothes would be at the top of your wish list.
Beth van Aalst is collecting both yarn and people who can knit, crochet and sew for her Helping Hands Craft Club. Van Aalst works at the base, and while she feels all the needs of the refugees will be well met there, she sees this as one way the community can offer a more personal welcome to Canada.
Ultimately, the Helping Hands Craft Club would like to make a bigger contribution to the community. They would like to
The Owen Sound Regional Hospital Foundation's Christmas Angel Campaign is underway. This year, it aims to help surgical patients at the Hospital by upgrading vital signs monitors in the Surgical Recovery Room and other departments in the Hospital.
"200 patients have surgery at the Hospital every week," said Paul Weitendorf, Executive Director of the Foundation. "A key tool of the staff in caring for these patients is the vital signs monitor. These monitors track heart function, breathing and other vital signs of recovering patients to ensure that all is well in the critical time immediately after surgery."
Through the Christmas Angel Campaign, the Foundation is hoping to raise $300,000.
"Many people don't realize that while the government funds the operation of hospitals, little funding is provided for...
- by Anne Finlay-Stewart
There was a distinctive buzz of anticipation in the room as the Owen Sound and Community Refugee Initiative sat down to its third meeting in as many months. Representatives from a dozen different groups from Hanover, Kilsyth, Meaford, Georgian Bluffs, Northern Bruce Peninsula and Owen Sound updated each other on "their families", the progress of fundraising, and the challenges they have already met or surmounted.
Sponsoring groups vary from a group of six neighbours in Georgian Bluffs who will likely be settling a family in Wiarton to a partnership between the Owen Sound Muslim Association and St. George's Anglican Church who have finished their fundraising and will be welcoming a Syrian family of six.
In Northern Bruce Peninsula, a broad coalition has formed across their small communities, and $16,000 has already been raised. In Hanover, two sponsoring groups have formed, and when one of them exceeded its fundraising target, its members decided
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