Wednesday, Feb. 11, is 211 Day across North America. To mark this occasion, staff with the United Way of Bruce Grey and the 211 Ontario helpline are asking residents to make the right call if they want or need help. Call 2-1-1 for information on your community, social and healt...
Revera Inc., owner of Trillium Court Seniors' Community in Kincardine, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Canadian Home Health division to Extendicare Inc. which operates a home health care division (ParaMed). The decision to divest the Home Health division follows a...
The Purple Grove Women's Institute held its February meeting at the home of Marilyn Reid Wednesday afternoon. Marilyn welcomed everyone, especially our four guests. The roll call was answered by: 'A product to remove stains'. There were some interesting an...
Q: What do you suggest I take for my cough that I have had for weeks? A: First of all, over-the-counter cough and cold remedies are not to be used in children, especially those under the age of five, due to lack of evidence of effectiveness and increased chance of harm. If...
More than 70 years after serving as members of the First Special Service Force in the Second World War, Charles Mann of Kincardine and his fellow Forcemen have been awarded the United States Congressional Gold Medal. Mann and 13 other Canadians were among 42 surviving members of the jo...
A hungry crowd turned out for the Goodtimers Hockey Club's pancake breakfast, Saturday morning, at the Whitney Crawford Community Centre in Tiverton. Players cooked and served the breakfast, part of Tiverton Winterfest which also included story time, sing song and a kids' movie...
Former Canadian prime minister Paul Martin, who served from 2003-06, will campaign with federal Liberal candidate Allan Thompson in the riding of Huron-Bruce, Wednesday, Feb. 25, making stops in Kincardine and Port Elgin before ending the day with a major rally in Goderich. &...
The TD Bank Group has donated $25,473 to the Kincardine and Community Health Care Foundation. The presentation was made Thursday afternoon at the Kincardine branch, with manager Michael Wright and several staff members, handing the cheque to foundation vice-president Becky Fair and direc...
Feb. 12 - Cash Bingo - doors open at 6 p.m. and Bingo starts at 7 p.m. More Bingo players means bigger cash prizes. Feb. 13 - Trivia Night at the Legion. Come out and test your knowledge. Everyone welcome. Starts at 7 p.m. Spectators welcome. Feb. 14 – Special Valentine's ...
CORRECTION! The wording at the top of the petition that was circulated in and around the Inverhuron area read, "Are you in favour of Victoria Street/Upper Lorne Beach Road gate opened to traffic 'ONLY' when #21 Highway is closed." The word ONLY is the key ...
The Alzheimer Society of Grey-Bruce raised more than $60,000 in its final Walk for Memories, held Jan. 31 in Kincardine, Hanover, Thornbury and Owen Sound. “We are grateful to everyone who participated in, who donated to, and who volunteered at, this year's event,&rdq...
Women’s House Serving Bruce and Grey is pleased to announce that Carrie Ann Kent will be the keynote speaker at the International Women’s Day celebration, Saturday, March 28, at the Lakeshore Recreation Centre in Port Elgin. "Some of you may know Carrie as sh...
GOOD SAMARITANS HELP RECOVER LOST MONEY (KINCARDINE TWP, ON) – Feb. 2, at 3 p.m., the South Bruce OPP received a quantity of cash that had been found near the Canadian Tire parking lot in Kincardine Township. Officers managed to locate the owner and the money was returned....
Huron-Kinloss Township is one of 11 communities still in the running to host a used-nuclear-fuel Deep Geologic Repository (DGR). To that end, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) spoke to council at its general committee meeting Monday afternoon (Feb. 2), outlining the next s...
The results are in for the 2014 Lucknow and Ripley Holiday Shopping Pass. Congratulations to the three lucky winners of $150 Huron-Kinloss shopping sprees: Bev Menary of Lucknow, Chad Silva of London, and Anita Rutledge of Ripley. In total, 1,299 completed passes were submitted to Hur...
Bruce Power president and chief executive officer Duncan Hawthorne and senior staff were in Ottawa Thursday morning, Feb. 5, for the first part of a Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) hearing into the five-year licence renewal for the Bruce Nuclear site in the Municipality of Kinca...
In a narrow, 5-4 recorded vote, Kincardine council has agreed to find out the current status of the proposed sale of Bruce Telecom to Bragg Communications (Eastlink). Announced last January, the deal was scuttled in August after the Competition Bureau refused to allow the sale,...
Warm greetings from the Tiverton Agricultural Society! Our heartfelt thanks go out to last year’s executive who faithfully served us so well. Our new executive took office in January. They are: president Tom Evans, 1st vice-president Anne Marie Gomes, 2nd vice-pr...
Residents of Huron-Kinloss Township are being urged to leave an inside faucet running during periods of extreme cold weather. Two incidents were reported in the Point Clark area Monday. If you have, or suspect you may have, a frozen waterline, contact Veolia Water Canada at 519-524-...
THREE-DAY SUSPENSION SERVED AT RIDE (KINCARDINE, ON) – Jan. 30, at 10:48 p.m., members of the South Bruce OPP were conducting a RIDE check on Russell Street in Kincardine, when a black Pontiac Torrent was stopped. Officers found that the driver had been drinking alcohol. A...
A joint letter from Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson and Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker is calling on Ontario health minister Eric Hoskins to stop the closure of the Restorative Care Unit (RCU) program in Chesley. The two local MPPs have also invited the minister to visit the Chesl...
Bruce Power and a coalition of agencies and municipalities with an interest in public safety, have launched a new website to provide residents of Grey, Bruce and Huron counties with the information they need to prepare for emergencies. The website, www.bepreparedgreybrucehuron.com, is an...
Kincardine council has given initial approval to the 2015 budget for Bruce Telecom. In committee-of-the-whole during the special council meeting last night (Feb. 2), Steve Soychak, chief financial officer of the telephone company, presented the budget and stressed that it represents the ...
<p><strong>Q: I am told I have an Upper Respiratory Infection (URI), but I wasn’t given an antibiotic despite being very sick. What can I do? </strong></p> <p> </p> <p>A: A respiratory infection can leav...
<p>The Ripley and District Agricultural Society held its meeting Jan. 19 with a good attendance. Everyone enjoyed the special speakers, Sheila (Osborne) and Garry Smart of Meaford. They talked about their trip to Argentina last fall.</p> <p> </p> <...
IMPAIRED DRIVER FACING DAY IN COURT (CARRICK TWP, ON) – Jan. 31, at 6:55 p.m., a South Bruce OPP officer on patrol along the Huron-Bruce Road in Carrick Township, stopped a red Ford F150 pick-up truck. The officer found that the driver had been drinking alcohol. Sixty-year...
A total of 23 walkers raised about $6,000 at the Walk For Memories held Saturday morning at Huron Heights Public School, Kincardine. People attended from the Kincardine and Saugeen Shores area, walking in memory of a loved one or in honour of someone who is still battling Alzheimer Dis...
The three actors on stage may be Kincardine Theatre Guild veterans, but behind-the-scenes, there are youthful, new faces helping out with the production of "Ten Times Two," which opens Thursday, Feb. 12, at the Kincardine Arts Centre. Director Rob Millar of Kincardine has his...
A "Classroom of the Future" will be built at the Bruce Power Training Centre, located in the former W.E. Thompson School, at the corner of Princes and Russell Streets, near downtown Kincardine. John Peevers, manager of investor and media relations at Bruce Power, says the cla...
If you want to be elected mayor of Kincardine, you have to work hard, and once you get the job, you have to work even harder. That's the word from Kincardine mayor Anne Eadie as she spoke to the Grade 3 students at Kincardine Township-Tiverton Public School, Thursday afternoon. A ...
The Community Living of Kincardine and District board of directors is engaging its stakeholders in collecting information to develop strategic directions for the next three years. It is important to collectively look ahead to map out how the agency can best address the opportunitie...
The Ripley and District Horticultural Society held its first meeting of the new year, Jan. 21. The group installed its new executive which includes president Ann Finlayson, vice-president Sandra MacDonald, and directors Shirley Galloway, Valerie Gibson, Joan Barr, Janet Nixon, Helen Va...
(GODERICH, ON) – The Huron County OPP has charged a 53-year-old male driver of North Huron, following a traffic stop Jan. 13. At approximately 11:45 p.m., a Huron OPP officer spotted a Pontiac Sunfire turn off of Courthouse Square onto Kingston Street. The officer stopped the...
A Valentine's Day Tea will be held Saturday, Feb. 14, from 1:30-3:30 p.m., at the Tiverton Knox Presbyterian Church, hosted by the Knox Youth Group. Cost is by donation. Annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper is Tuesday, Feb. 17, from 5-6:30 p.m., at the Tiverton Knox Presbyte...
Kincardine Township-Tiverton Public School celebrated Family Literacy Day, Jan. 27, to help raise awareness of the importance of reading and engaging in other literacy-related activities. Many of the staff and students wore pajamas to school to help mark this special day. Students in ...
More than 50 adults and children turned out for the first annual Community Snowshoe Walk at Stoney Island Sunday (Jan. 25). Sunshine and snowy trails greeted excited faces, including first-timers to snowshoeing. This free community event was hosted by the Kincardine Cross-Country Ski Cl...
More than 17,000 people in Bruce, Grey and Huron counties listened in as Bruce Power president and chief executive officer Duncan Hawthorne addressed questions on a variety of topics, during the second annual Telephone Town Hall, Tuesday night. The open forum featured about 20 question...
To the Editor: RE: "Kincardine scraps proposed 8.7-per-cent tax-rate increase" Today our OAP came in. The increase over last year? ZIP! NADA! ZILCH! Does that mean there is no inflation? Apparently not, as CPP went up a few dollars. Again, tha...
TRAFFIC STOP LEADS TO DRUG CHARGE (WALKERTON, ON) – Jan. 25, at 11:48 a.m., a South Bruce OPP officer on patrol along Durham Street West in Walkerton, stopped a beige Nissan S18. The officer found a quantity of illegal drugs in the vehicle. The driver, an 18-year-old Walke...
Five years ago, Kincardine council decided not to allow public traffic through a gate between Upper Lorne Beach Road and Victoria Street in Inverhuron, when Highway 21 and Bruce County Road 23 (B-line) were closed because of a snowstorm. At that time, discussion centred on a 2007 polic...