- by Martin Donald
I wanted to comment about an opinion piece that Jim Cummings had posted at the owensoundhub.org about the irony of having an Orange Lodge at the Pratie Oaten, Irish Festival at Grey Roots.
It is very coincidental that Grey Roots built the Orange Lodge in 2017, when we around the world are trying to deal with monuments, whether they be statues, plaques or schools named after individuals, that are inherently negative. We saw indigenous protests in Halifax centered around a statue of Edward Cornwallis, Protests, riots and murders in Charlottesville, North Carolina all centered around a confederate monument and we saw Grey Roots complete a building, a monument to Protestant Ethno-Nationalism.
That statement might seem extreme unless you know...
- by R. Michael Warren
First before I argue that Premier Wynne's higher minimum wage and other workplace improvements will benefit our economy and democracy let me make a couple of things clear.First, I've had experience meeting payrolls in my own businesses. It's challenging. Second, I'm not a left-leaning economist using this platform for political advocacy. Instead, I am ...
Jim Cummings is not the only resident of Grey County concerned about the presence of an active Orange Lodge on the publicly- owned site of Grey Roots' Moreston Village, but he was the only one to write a letter to the editor of OwenSoundHub.org. We published that letter, along with a response from Grey Roots.
Former Grey County Warden Arlene Wright also wrote a response to Mr. Cummings, which we have published here along with Mr. Cummings' reply to Mrs. Wright.
From Facebook, with permission:
On the weekend we got ice cream at the Big Bay store and walked down to the end of the government dock. Walking back but still on the dock and hearing a roar, the four of us including our six year old grandson, had to jump out of the way of an ATV that came speeding out onto the pier (where vehicles are banned). It just missed us. We yelled at them as they went by at high speed and they laughed at us. One of its rear tires was half-flat. My wife thought it looked like...
- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
While working at a short-term temporary job as an enumerator with the 2016 census, Monika Bruaer broke her foot – she heard it crack. She'd stepped in an overgrown hole in a lawn where there was no front walk – ironically, the hole left when a landlord removed a hedge that the City deemed a problem....
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