While nimble fingers tied a warm and cheerful quilt to be given to the local women’s shelter, Reid’s Corners Women's Institute members dealt with a number of business topics at their March meeting. Support was planned for the Roots of Bruce program through a donation a...
(CENTRAL HURON, ON) - Huron County OPP and the Ontario Ministry of Labour are investigating a death at Compass Minerals, located on North Harbour Road in Goderich. The scene has been secured and the mine cleared of staff underground by the company, pending the results of the inve...
Kincardine council has put its money behind national reversible-plowing champion Tom Evans of Tiverton. Wednesday night (March 15), council endorsed a motion presented by councillor Randy Roppel, to donate $5,000 to Evans in his quest to win the world plowing championship, set for Keny...
"Hurricane" Hazel McCallion, mayor of Mississauga from 1978 to 2014, will be speaking at Trillium Court Seniors' Community, Kincardine, Tuesday, April 11, from 1:30-3 p.m. Chief elder officer at Revera Retirement Living (which owns Trillium Court), McCallion is a highly-r...
A REMINDER: The monthly Family Dinner at the Kincardine Legion will be held Sunday, March 19, from 4:30-6 p.m. The menu will be smoked corned beef, parsleyed potatoes, carrots, cabbage/apple salad, and dessert bread pudding with whiskey sauce. Cost is $14 each for adults, $10 each for chi...
The Kincardine area was awash in gorgeous sunshine and a bright blue sky, Thursday, even though the temperature was chilly. The thermometer may have said it was minus-one degree Celsius, but the fierce northwest wind made it feel more like minus-eight degrees Celsius. Lake Huron was...
To celebrate another year of providing 30 per cent of Ontario’s electricity at 30-per-cent less than the average residential price, Bruce Power released its 2016 Annual Report and produced a new video this week. ‘Powered by Our People’ highlights Bruce Power employees...
The Bluewater District School Board is inviting members of the public to participate in an on-line survey as part of the annual budget planning process. Students, parents/guardians, staff, and other stakeholders are encouraged to provide their feedback through a short series of questio...
It wasn't meant to get emotional, but that's how things turned out for the group of youth and adults at the March Break event, hosted by the Ripley and District Horticultural Society, Wednesday afternoon at the Ripley Complex. With "For Our Youth" leader Tryntje Eisen...
Kincardine ratepayers spent more than $300,000 in remuneration on their council, local boards and the Bruce Telecom board, last year. The amount paid to council members in 2016 decreased slightly, to $231,484.12 from $233,797.41 in 2015, while the amount paid to the Bruce Telecom...
The Ripley Wolves Novice rep. team has defeated Minto in the semi-finals, three games two, to advance to the finals for the Jacobi Cup. The Novices got off to a rough start, losing the first two games, each with a score of 3-1, before surprising the Minto Mad Dogs, with two consecutive...
(HURON TWP, ON) - March 11, at 7:42 p.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a two-vehicle crash along Highway 21 in Huron Township. Officers arrived with members of Kincardine Fire and Emergency Services, Huron County paramedics and Bruce County paramedics, to find that ...
(SOUTHERN BRUCE COUNTY, ON) - March is Fraud Prevention Month, and the South Bruce OPP is asking residents across the detachment area to be careful with unsolicited contacts. Unsolicited means that you didn't ask for it. Today's tech-savvy scammers can create very co...
(WALKERTON, ON) - March 13, at 1:32 p.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Yonge Street South and Huron Street in Walkerton. Officers arrived to find that a red Ford Fusion had turned into the path of a black Kia SX5. The ...
Avery Wettlaufer (left, in photo at right, with her coach), a student at Sacred Heart High School in Walkerton, recently competed at the OFSAA swim meet in Windsor. She swam the 50-metre butterfly, finishing the race with an incredible time of 32:77 seconds. She finished sixth overall ...
With the loss of the Knechtel Food Market, which closed its doors Sept. 1, 2016, residents of Lucknow have had to travel out of town to get their groceries. However, Jeannette Poirier of St. Helen's hopes to stem that tide with the Small Town Grocery in downtown Lucknow. Located...
Seven young people sat at the Kincardine council table for the inaugural meeting of the Youth Advisory Council, Monday night (March 6). The members of this newest youth organization include: Brooklyn Lampi, 14, of Kincardine, a student at St. Anthony's School, Kincardin...
The monthly Family Dinner at the Kincardine Legion will be held Sunday, March 19, from 4:30-6 p.m. The menu will be smoked corned beef, parsleyed potatoes, carrots, cabbage/apple salad, and dessert bread pudding with whiskey sauce. Cost is $14 each for adults, $10 each for children ...
(HURON TWP, ON) - March 11, at 9:50 a.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a crash involving a snowplow at the intersection of Highway 21 and Bruce County Road 6 in Huron Township. Officers arrived to find that a silver Honda Civic had collided with a yellow Western sno...
About 80 people battled the snowstorm Friday night to attend a town hall meeting and make their views known about Ontario Power Generation (OPG)'s proposed Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste to be located at the Bruce site in the Municipalit...
LIONS CLUB If you would like to purchase a tree in memory of a loved one, to be planted in the Tiverton Lions Walk of Memories, the cost is $375 and the deadline to order a tree is April 1. Contact Lion Gerda at 519-368-7792, Lion Rosemary at 519-368-7789, Lion Brent at 519-368-53...
Folks in our area were glad to see the robins back, but are feeling sorry for them with all this snow. The Reid family met at the home of Marilyn and Don last Sunday to celebrate the family March birthdays. Morley Scott has made Pinecrest Manor his home and enjoys visiti...
Q: A member of my family seems to get a lot of nosebleeds. Should I be concerned and what can I do about them? A: The definition of a nosebleed is simply bleeding from the blood vessels located within the nose. The medical term for this condition is epistaxis. The vast majority of nose...
Remember to reset your clocks one hour ahead as Daylight Savings Time begins Sunday, March 12 at 2 a.m. And say, doesn't it look like spring is just around the corner, amidst the blowing and drifting snow!
The Kinetic Knights, FRC Team 781, of Kincardine brought home the Gracious Professionalism award after competing at the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Ontario District robotics competition held March 4-5 at Durham College in Oshawa. The team proudly s...
Building on the success of Huron's first-ever Drug Education Forum, members of the Huron County Youth Justice Committee Program are looking forward to hosting another informative Drug Education Forum to serve the residents of the northern end of the county and those beyond. &nb...
The premier local event for secondary students enrolled in the skilled trades is just around the corner. The Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) will host the 13th annual Regional Technological Skills Challenge at several Owen Sound locations, Friday, March 24. Industry judg...
Due to freezing temperatures and minimal ground cover, there is potential for frozen water pipes, states a notice from Huron-Kinloss Township. Running a slow trickle of cold water may prevent freezing by keeping the water moving. The formal notice from the township urges homeowners to ...
It was a shocking return to winter, Friday morning, as Kincardine-area residents woke up to heavy snowfall and high wind, with intermittent sunshine. The weather was rather bizarre: clear and sunny one minute, and then the next, blowing and drifting snow with white-outs. And the temper...
(BRANT TWP, ON) - Feb. 27, at 4:28 p.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a break, enter and theft at an address in the 1200 block of Concession 12 in Brant Township. Sometime between 5 p.m. Feb. 26, and 4 p.m. Feb. 27, a number of trailers on the property were forcibly...
If you’re planning a stay-cation this March Break, be sure to bring the children to the Bruce Power Visitors’ Centre. Programs run from March 13-17 and include energy exhibitions, magic shows, art classes, acting workshops, Indigenous craft-making, and robotic demonstration...
(CENTRAL HURON, ON) - Two men and two teens from the area are each facing over a dozen criminal charges stemming from a robbery that took place in Clinton late February. Just before 10 p.m., Feb. 26, Huron County OPP officers responded to an Albert Street residence to investigate...
The South Bruce Grey Health Centre, Kincardine hospital auxiliary's Art/Easel Program fund-raiser has been a great success. The auxiliary has received its first cheque for $4,251.45 from the Funding Innovation Program, after partnering with this unique fund-raiser in June, 2016. ...
Charles “Michael” Palmer, of RR 3, Tiverton, by the lake, died peacefully with family by his side, at Brucelea Haven, Walkerton, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in his 78th year. Cherished husband of Marilyn Palmer (née Duck). Beloved father of Warren Palmer of RR 3, Ti...
The OPP is reporting that 2016 marked the fourth consecutive year that inattentive drivers caused the highest number of deaths on OPP-patrolled roads, more than the other main causal factors in road fatalities, known as the "Big Four." In total, 65 people died in OPP-in...
St. Patrick’s Day is going to see lots of activities happening at the Legion. Euchre takes place in the Red Room; everyone is welcome. A Jam Session will be happening in the Clubroom - if you like to play music or listen to it, you are welcome to come. The ever-popular Trivia Night ...
For those interested in a career as a member of the OPP, a constable information session will be held in Kincardine, Monday, May 27, beginning at 5:30 p.m., at the Davidson Centre, 601 Durham Street. Hosted by OPP Uniform Recruiters, the presentation is open to the public and free of c...
The Kincardine Legion has donated $4,400 toward the Kincardine District Secondary School trip to the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The presentation was made Tuesday afternoon, by Legion president Mary Farrell, vice-president Jim McDonald and Rev. Jim Weir, chairman of ...
For the second time in just over a year, Kincardine council has rejected a proposed residential development for property beside the Willow West subdivision, west of the intersection of Kincardine Avenue and Fraser Drive in Kincardine. In a public meeting last night (March 8), council h...
Huron-Kinloss council will soon sound louder, if not better. At the budget meeting Feb. 17, council approved the purchase of a new sound system for the council chamber at a cost of $13,255, plus HST, funded by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) Learn More Program ($10,000...