-by Anne Finlay-Stewart
Like many of us, Ron Pirie first came to Owen Sound because he had a friend here. The developer of "The Sydenham" condominium project had visited local lawyer Doug Grace regularly over the years, and came to feel at home in our city. After building an international market research firm in the GTA, Pirie was ready to leave a physical legacy. The property for sale on the east side of the 9th Avenue bridge presented him with an opportunity to create "something significant in a landmark location in a great community".
"Owen Sound has been recognized as a top retirement community", Pirie said in an interview in his 8th Street sales office, "and I felt that the people who lived in its beautiful old homes would want to downsize into something of unique quality and style."
The city council and former Mayor Deb Haswell were supportive from the start –
The Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library is pleased to announce our Food for Fines initiative.
Help out our local food bank by dropping off non-perishable food items at the Library from Friday, November 13 until Friday, November 27. The Library will reduce your library fines by $2 for each non-perishable food item donated at the Public Services Desk or the Youth Services Desk during this time.
All donated food will be delivered to the Owen Sound Salvation Army Food Bank. The agency estimates that they are currently serving about 700 people a month. Most needed items include pasta sauce, canned fruit, Kraft Dinner, cereals and juice. For more information, contact the Library at 519-376-6623 ext. 0
By Cathy Hird
I've been thinking about conversations, difficult ones in particular, and the challenge of opening up topics where we disagree. Intentionally facing uncomfortable issues is hard. But people are different from each other. Sometimes the difference comes at us from nowhere.
An example. The setting is a line in a store, any kind of store...
By Jon Farmer
November 11th is complicated. We mark it with ornate public ceremony, great bursts of munitions and music, and – most importantly – silence. A crowd gathered around the cenotaph on 1st Avenue West in Owen Sound to mark this Remembrance Day. A thousand people stretched north along the sidewalks and steps of the library and art gallery, and spilled east along the 9th Street Bridge wrapping along the top of the eastern bank. Men and women in uniform stood side by side with civilians of all ages, almost all wore poppies. The Canadian flag hung at half-mast. The mood was quiet and thoughtful.
Memorials in parks and buildings throughout Owen Sound remind us that there were times during the past century when Canadians were clearly and collectively touched by war. Plaques explain...
The Hub asked Jake Doherty, former publisher of The Owen Sound Sun Times, Kingston Whig Standard and the Hamilton Spectator, about the changes in newspapers over his career. Parts One and Two here.
-by John (Jake) Doherty
The essential questions in South Africa then were more racial than religious but more lethal most certainly. And thus less open to visiting journalists. To get my visa application signed, I had to promise its ambassador to Canada that I was prepared to look at both sides of the apartheid policies that gave total control to the white minority with no black representation in government or its police and military.
To work around this, I constructed a template of crosshairs that ran west to east and another that went north to south. The first represented the importance of South Africa's pivotal position between western democracies and the then Soviet Union; in effect democracy versus communism. The second reflected the social justice issues championed by North American democracies (particularly Canada) and the totalitarian regimes in the southern hemisphere. Put together, did they represent the gun sight on a lethal weapon, or the cross of redemption?
My test came quite quickly after a brief stop in Kenya to visit a
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