The Kincardine Fire Department is ready to defend its title and keep the Bronze Nozzle at the fire hall, as it takes on the South Bruce OPP in the third annual Guns 'n' Hoses charity hockey game this Sunday, April 12, at the Davidson Centre in Kincardine. Besides the excitement...
Bruce Power has entered into a wide-ranging Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the South Bruce Grey Health Centre which includes hospitals in Kincardine, Walkerton, Durham and Chesley; and with Grey Bruce Health Services which includes hospitals in Owen Sound, Southampton, Markda...
All four Kincardine Minor Hockey rep. girls teams are are participating in the All-Ontario provincial playdown championships in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) this weekend (April 10-12). These teams include: the Canadian Tire Atom “C” girls, Sobeys Peewee “B” gi...
TRAILER FULL OF TOOLS STOLEN (HURON TWP, ON) – April 8, at 9:45 a.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a theft from a residence in the 1200 block of Concession 10 in Huron Township. Sometime between 4:30 p.m. April 7, and 9 a.m. April 8, a white Pace enclosed...
Grant Hopcroft and Paul Axman are urging Kincardine council to move ahead as quickly as possible with the Inverhuron water and sewer project. Both are residents of Inverhuron and were members of the steering committee that met from 2009-10 to discuss the project. And both made delegati...
Officials estimate the loss of a barn at 549 Northline, in Kincardine, at $400,000. Firefighters were called to the blaze Friday, April 3, at 5:40 p.m., where the barn was totally engulfed in flames, says Kincardine fire chief Kent Padfield. Crews from Kincardine and Tiverton stations ...
POWER TOOLS TAKEN IN EARLY MORNING BREAK-IN (KINLOSS TWP, ON) – April 6, at 11:08 a.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a break-in along the 400 block of Karishea Avenue in Kinloss Township. Sometime between 7-11 a.m., April 5, outbuildings on the prop...
SUSPENDED DRIVER FOUND OVER THE LEGAL LIMIT (HOWICK, ON) – A Mildmay man is facing an Over-80 charge and a Drive Under Suspension charge after he was stopped by police April 4. Just after 9:30 p.m., a Huron County OPP officer observed a Pontiac Montana mini-van t...
The snow on Easter Sunday sure was a surprise! An Easter gathering of the family was held on Sunday with Largaret McInnes. Last week visitor with Largaret and Karen, was Linda McInnes of Oakville. Sheena Houghton of Sanford, Michigan, and her children, William, A...
It was a close shave for Huron-Kinloss mayor Mitch Twolan. At the general committee meeting Monday night (April 6), the Ripley Reunion committee brought an update about the event, slated for July 30 to Aug. 3 this year. Sean Johnson, of the committee, pointed out that, aside from de...
After 34 years of service to the Ripley-Huron Fire Department, fire chief Doug Martyn is retiring, effective July 1. Martyn made his announcement to Huron-Kinloss council, in closed session, at the general committee meeting Monday night (April 6). In a statement Tuesday (April 7), c...
Q: My child is struggling with a psychiatric condition. All the pills and counselling really don’t seem to be helping as much as I had hoped. Are there viable alternative treatments available either now or in the near future? A: In a word, yes. Whether it is depression, obsess...
Huron-Kinloss council has listened to both sides, but ultimately, cannot enforce a proposed hunting ban in residential areas, particularly along the lakeshore in Point Clark. At the general committee meeting last night (April 6), council heard from two proponents of a ban based on safe...
The Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band has been invited by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch in the Netherlands to participate in celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Liberation of Holland. The band's participation will greatly enhance celebrations, and increase awarenes...
Second World War veteran Richard "Dick" Patrick Colwell of Kincardine died Sunday, April 5, 2015, at the South Bruce Grey Health Centre, Kincardine hospital. He was 94. Beloved husband of Mary “Lil” Colwell (née Brannon). Dear father of Terry (Bonnie) Colwe...
Hundreds of children, along with their parents and grandparents, turned out for the Kincardine Rotary Club's eighth annual Easter Egg Hunt, Saturday morning, at Victoria Park in Kincardine. Lots of colourful Easter eggs were hidden in a roped-off pile of straw, and children in sepa...
Local developer David Brown was surprised and honoured to be named the recipient of the 2014 Bruce County YIMBY (Yes, In My Back Yard) Team Housing Award. The award was presented by YIMBY Team chairman Rev. Herb Klaehn, Thursday afternoon, at the county's social services and housin...
Nadia Crisante Rochon tries to answer the question, "What makes a good dog, good?" with her new show, featured at the Victoria Park Gallery in downtown Kincardine, through the month of April. Titled "good.dog." the exhibit is a series of drawings of a dog, but the a...
The Kincardine Theatre Guild is in rehearsals for the mystery-comedy, "Murder by the Book," which opens May 22 at the Kincardine Arts Centre in downtown Kincardine. Directed by Shirley Bieman, the play tells the tale of what happens when an all-woman, mystery-writers' clu...
A barn on the Northline, east of the Bervie Sideroad, in Kincardine, was destroyed by fire Friday night. Smoke continued to billow from the site Saturday morning, where a tractor and a high-hoe were clearing debris as the fire continued to smoulder. There are reports that two horses...
If you get the feeling you're in the aftermath of a vampire apocalypse in Kincardine next month, you are. However, it isn't real. It's the cast and crew filming a movie, "Red Spring." Led by Kincardine native Tonya Dodds, producer, filming of the show will begi...
Kincardine council is urging residents to keep faucets running in their homes for another two weeks to help keep waterlines from freezing. At the meeting Wednesday night (April 1), councillor Laura Haight, policy chairperson for water and wastewater systems, told council that the work ...
Tiverton Knox Presbyterian Church News – April 12 - Services will be held at 10 a.m. as of Sunday, April 12 April 18 - Faith Family Team will be hosting a Family Movie Night, Friday, April 17, at 7 p.m., and Adult Games Night, Saturday, April 18, at 7 p.m. April 1...
The Kincardine Fire Department's new rescue vehicle was on display in the parking lot of the Municipal Administrative Centre, Wednesday night, just prior to the Kincardine council meeting. The shiny new red truck, which arrived last Friday from Surrey, British Columbia, will be ope...
Bluewater District School Board staff are encouraged by this week’s release of the board’s 2013-14 graduation rate which stands at 82 per cent. The provincial graduation rate is currently 84 per cent. Spring, 2015, marks the first time that the province has released provinc...
Each year, the Ontario government offers a number of programs to provide summer job opportunities to high school, college or university students looking for work. Last year, more than 100,000 students were able to find jobs or receive help through the summer job programs that t...
The Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority (SVCA) is advising the public to stay well away from local rivers and streams, for safety reasons, particularly over the Easter holiday weekend. River banks at this time of year can be very slippery and unstable. In addition, children can be un...
The South Bruce Grey Health Centre’s Family Birthing Centre, located at the Walkerton hospital, welcomed more than 400 babies in 2014‐2015 (April 1, 2014, to March 31, 2015), setting a new record for the number of births at the facility. The previous year, a record-setting ...
The Kinetic Knights Robotics Team 781 of Kincardine brought home the Engineering Inspiration award from the North Bay Regional last weekend, March 27-28. This FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) award celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and...
(SOUTHERN BRUCE COUNTY, ON) – The South Bruce OPP is starting to receive reports of vehicle collisions with deer across the detachment area. Drivers are offered the following safe driving tips to help reduce the chances of hitting a deer: Be especially attent...
The Bervie Women’s Institute met at the Bervie United Church, April 1, with nine members giving a joke and paying their membership fees. Elsie and Sylvia will attend the membership workshop in Chesley, April 30. Roots of Bruce is April 9-10 in Walkerton with Elsie and San...
OPP looking for 100-per-cent seatbelt compliance over Easter long weekend (ORILLIA, ON) – Seeing seatbelt-related deaths on OPP-patrolled roads shrink to 50 last year (2014) from 120 in 2005, has the OPP optimistic about the growing importance road-users are placing on&...
In an effort to better prepare Kincardine residents, businesses and institutions located around the Bruce Nuclear site, distribution of potassium iodide (KI) tablets will get under way later this year. In committee-of-the-whole last night (April 1), community emergency prepared...
The 20th annual Heart and Stroke Pool Tournament, held March 20-22 at the Sutton Park Inn, has raised $2,774.50 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. This brings the grand total of funds raised over the 20 years, to $115,000. Tournament winners were: "A" Division...
Congratulations to Kate Leppington (L) and Madison Beishuizen for both finishing in first place at the Ripley Legion competition and then AGAIN in Goderich. The next level of competition was in Mount Forest where Kate finished second in the Junior division and Madison was first in the ...
The Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Caucus has asked the provincial government to commit to not levying another misguided tax on the people of Ontario, specifically a carbon tax. This is the second in a series of commitments the PC Caucus is asking of the government in advance...
(ASHFIELD-COLBORNE-WAWANOSH, ON) – A traffic stop near Dungannon Tuesday afternoon, March 31, has led to several charges being laid against a young female driver from Exeter. At approximately 4:15 p.m., a Huron County OPP officer stopped a Suzuki Vitara on Lucknow Line just...
It was a practical exercise in career-related experiential learning for local students at the area’s signature skilled trades event of the year. Georgian College, Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute, and St. Mary’s High School in Owen Sound were competition sites...
The Bruce Grey MedLINCS (Medical Learning in Community Settings, formerly MedQUEST) committee is looking for all former program participants in order to invite them to the 10th Anniversary Celebration, July 11. If you were a participant or are a family member or friend of a par...
POLICE INVESTIGATING PROPERTY DAMAGE (TEESWATER, ON) – March 26, at 2 p.m., the South Bruce OPP received a report of property damage to the soccer field at Sacred Heart School along Gordon Street in Teeswater. Sometime between 4 p.m. March 24, and 6 a.m. March 26...