It's been a few years since the Kincardine area saw roads closed and school bus routes cancelled in December. But that was the case Wednesday night as Highway 21 was closed, and area school officials cancelled their buses, with students either picked up by their parents or billeted...
The Epsilon Alpha chapter of Beta Sigma Phi, Kincardine, was at the Kincardine Food Bank, Thursday morning, to present a donation of $340. Rather than hold a gift exchange, the sorority puts the money toward an annual donation to the food bank. Gladly accepting the funds, were co-or...
(GODERICH, ON) – Huron County OPP officers are investigating a break, enter and theft at a detached garage in Goderich. The victim reported to police that sometime overnight Dec. 11, someone came onto the property located on Victoria Street North in Goderich. Once on the...
New Year’s Eve is just around the corner - have you bought your ticket for the annual Legion New Year’s Eve Dance? Tickets are available at the Legion bar, Jerome Flowers and Gifts, and Harbour Rose Boutique. Tickets are $35 per person; this includes party favours, munchies, a...
CHARGE LAID IN THREE-VEHICLE CRASH (KINCARDINE TWP, ON) – Dec. 12, at 5:47 p.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a three-vehicle crash on Highway 21 in Kincardine Township. Officers arrived to find that a white Ford F250, a grey Ford Edge and a white Pontiac V...
After an exceptionally-mild fall, winter has come with a bang. Members of the Kincardine Cross-Country Ski Club are thrilled at having to shovel the white stuff, and are also enjoying an early start to skiing at Stoney Island Conservation Area, after sulking over a green Christmas for ...
Fixing up the Kincardine Airport is going to cost about $2.2-million, and Kincardine council has committed two years' worth of Armow Wind community benefit funds to completing this project. In committee-of-the-whole last night (Dec. 14), chief administrative officer Murray Clarke g...
Blowing and drifting snow, and pockets of zero visibility, prompted the OPP to close Highway 21, north and south of Kincardine, Wednesday afternoon. The South Bruce OPP reported Highway 21 closed, from Amberley to Allenford, at 12:45 p.m., due to the high wind and blowing snow. For ...
It's time the provincial government stopped playing shell games with Ontarians' money, and started getting down to the business of scrapping the Drive Clean program altogether, says Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson, Progressive Conservative (PC) critic for environment and Cap-and-Tra...
Kincardine council has had its first look at the draft 2017 budget which estimates a tax-rate hike of almost 10 per cent in order to maintain existing service levels in the municipality. Treasurer Roxana Baumann presented the document in committee-of-the-whole, Monday night (Dec. 12), ...
It's been a snowy, blustery couple of days, creating havoc for motorists and pedestrians in the Kincardine area. One driver ended up planting a car in the ditch on Bruce Avenue, west of Highway 21, Tuesday morning, due to the slippery roads. And pedestrians had to take care, walkin...
The season of giving continues with cheque presentations to the Kincardine and Community Health Care Foundation. Isabel and George Jones, representing the Bruce Chapter 253 Order of the Eastern Star, presented a cheque for $2,000 for refurbishment of a room in the hospital. To date, th...
Celebrations marking Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017 will be held across Bruce and Grey counties and the First Nations, thanks to grants from Community Foundation Grey Bruce and Community Foundations of Canada. A total of $50,000 was distributed Tuesday, to 10...
If you still aren’t sure what to get that special someone for Christmas, Lucknow’s Music in the Fields tickets are available now until Dec. 31, at the Early Bird price of $135 each. The ticket price increases to $150 each in the new year. This year’s festival has some...
Volunteers at Knox Presbyterian Church, Kincardine, welcomed a good crowd to "A Visit to Bethlehem," Saturday afternoon, Dec. 3, at the church. Visitors were greeted at the city gates where they met Mary and Joseph at the manger. They then went downstairs where they visited t...
'Tis the season of giving and there has been an absolute plethora of cheque presentations over the past few weeks. Donna Sue Errington and her Zumba class held a Zumbathon, raising $1,000 for the Canadian Mental Health Association of Grey-Bruce. Fraser Clarke and Victoria Zambit...
RVilla residents enjoyed making their annual donation to St. Andrew’s United Church, Ripley. The money is raised by the residents through their manicure program and special events. They also made a donation of cash and goods to the Ripley and District Christmas Hamper program. ...
Bruce Power’s Unit 7 returned to service Monday morning after workers safely completed thousands of tasks during a 94-day, planned maintenance outage. The maintenance program sets the unit up to provide low-cost power to Ontario families and businesses for another long run. Unit ...
St. Anthony's Parish Hall, Kincardine, had more than 40 volunteers ready to take on the incredible amount of donations brought in by the Kincardine District Secondary School Christmas Knights during their 20th annual food and toy drive, Saturday morning. Heather Finnie, co-ordinato...
Kincardine council has deferred a proposal to put $15,000 toward three annual festivals, until budget talks tomorrow night (Dec. 12). At the council meeting Wednesday night (Dec. 7), deputy mayor Jacqueline Faubert's motion, put forward at the Nov. 16 meeting, stated that the munic...
After almost 20 years of pressuring the Ontario government to make changes to the Children's Law Reform Act, a new law now recognizes the relationship between a grandchild and grandparent. Since 1997, six bill attempts were made to amend the Act, allowing grandparents access to the...
Hope everyone is in the Christmas spirit with all this snow we’ve been getting. What a wake-up call in our driving skills recently. Hope none of you went on unexpected scenic tours in ditches. Please drive carefully, folks, we want to see you at the Purple Grove concert, Saturday ev...
Cancer Care Ontario releases Ontario Cancer Screening Performance Report 2016 The number of people newly diagnosed with cancer in Ontario has increased over the last two decades and will continue to rise, largely due to an aging population. In the South West region, it is estimated ...
A great crowd of students filled the atrium at Trillium Court Seniors' Community, Kincardine, Friday afternoon, as members of the band and choir at Huron Heights Public School, Kincardine, performed under the direction of Shelley Van Veghel. The band includes Grades 6-8 students, w...
Well, I guess the Bruce County winters are finally here. We have been spoiled by the nice weather, to date, but are we really ready for winter? Because Bruce County winters can be so bad, we should all have the necessary supplies in our vehicles, such as extra clothes, candles, shovels, c...
Lions Club International, the largest service organization in the world with clubs in 208 countries, will be celebrating its centennial in 2017. To celebrate, clubs have been asked to perform a new service project for their communities. The Tiverton and District Lions Club chose to ...
Huron-Bruce MP Ben Lobb is encouraging employers to apply for funding through the Canada Summer Jobs program to help create student jobs. Canada Summer Jobs helps students gain the skills and experience they need to be successful, while earning money for the upcoming school year. The p...
At the request of the Municipality of Kincardine, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has announced $50,000 in funding for the Lake Huron Learning Centre in Kincardine, to help ensure its continued operation in 2017. “Skills training at the Lake Huron Learning Centre helps to develop ...
IMPAIRED DRIVER INVOLVED IN CRASH (KINCARDINE TWP, ON) – Dec. 7, at 6:13 p.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a two-vehicle crash on Bruce County Road 23 in Kincardine Township. Officers arrived to find that a red GMC Sierra pick-up and a green Dodge Caravan ...
Q: I understand there will be a new type of shingles vaccine coming out soon. What can you tell me about it and should I hold off getting the current one (Zostavax ll) in order to wait for it? A: The new shingles vaccine, which is expected to be available to the public sometime in late...
(SOUTH HURON, ON) – A recent theft of Christmas presents could have made for just another sad story that we sometimes here about this time of year; however, this story has a different ending - a much nicer one! The story began last Friday evening, Dec. 2, when a kind and generous...
Fire has destroyed a $300,000 home on the 12th Concession of Bruce Township in the Municipality of Kincardine. Kincardine fire chief Kent Padfield said firefighters were called to the scene Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 5:20 p.m. “The first arriving fire crews found the home fully inv...
After an unbelievably mild and sunny autumn, the Kincardine area got its first dose of winter Thursday morning as snow and high wind made for some treacherous driving conditions, and the bitter cold woke people up to the change in season. The blowing and drifting snow, and snow squalls...
Jamie Richardson of Gulfport, Mississippi, formerly of the Kincardine area, became a world record holder after 150 hours of ringing the bell for the Salvation Army kettle. Richardson grew up in Purple Grove, went to school in Ripley and Kincardine and worked at the Davidson Centre befo...
DRIVER CHARGED AT TWO-VEHICLE CRASH (KINCARDINE, ON) – Dec. 6, at 8:31 a.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Durham Street and River Lane in Kincardine. Officers attended and learned that a white Toyota Venza and an o...
The Kincardine Theatre Guild brought a song of Christmas cheer to open the Kincardine council meeting last night (Dec. 7). The Sing-O-Gram, commissioned by councillor Laura Haight, touched on several major issues from the council table over the past year, from budget time and Bruce Tel...
The December Mega Meat Draw will be held Dec. 17 in the hall. Tickets go on sale at 2:30 p.m., with the first draw at 3 p.m. There will be our eight regular meat draws plus eight draws for turkeys, a raffle for a $50 LCBO gift card and another draw for a $50 Beef Way gift certificate. The...
Students hoping to spend a week this summer at the Bruce-Grey (Walkerton) MedLINCS camp (formerly MedQUEST), will be disappointed to hear that the program has been discontinued. As a community partner with the Distributed Education Network of Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, ...
Christmas traditions was the theme for the Bervie Women’s Institute meeting, held Wednesday, Dec. 7, at the Bervie United Church at 10 a.m. Ten members and three guests answered the Roll Call with a Christmas tradition and a stamped Christmas card for shut-ins. Most of the tradit...
(HURON EAST, ON) - Investigators with the West Region OPP Technical Traffic Collision Investigation Team continue to investigate a two-vehicle crash that killed a Clinton teen late Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 6. Just after 4:35 p.m., the Huron County OPP, Central Huron Fi...