The City of Owen Sound Council has approved a new 2015 Strategic Plan: 2020 Making Our Vision Clear.
Lura Consulting was selected last November to assist the City in the development of a strategic plan, and for the past eight months, City representatives have been asking community members 'what you love about Owen Sound', 'what your vision is for Owen Sound', and to prioritize the City's future.
On July 20, 2015, Council approved the final draft of the City of Owen Sound's 2015 Strategic Plan. "This Strategic Plan is a blueprint that will help guide Owen Sound's decision-making on programs, policies and community investments over the next five years," said Mayor Ian Boddy. "It embodies the long-term vision, mission, and goals of Owen Sound's residents and businesses, which are important to the future development of the City. I am proud of the fact that close to 800 people provided input to this Plan."
The Strategic Plan identifies four primary focus areas
The Owen Sound Attack is announcing that Head Coach Greg Ireland has resigned to pursue a professional coaching opportunity. Ireland informed Attack General Manager Dale DeGray of his decision on Saturday.
“We’re losing a good coach, a good friend and a good person in Greg Ireland”, stated Attack General Manager Dale DeGray. “Greg has done a wonderful job for us the last four season and we cannot thank him enough. We wish Greg, his wife Erin and two boys Jake and Brennan the absolute best in their new venture.”
By Frank Dabbs
Go Set A Watchman. By Harper Lee. Harper. 278 pp. US$27.99, Canada $34
Surely to say that Harper Lee ought not to have published Go Set A Watchman or it should not be read is the censorship of political and literary correctness.
Perhaps it should be withdrawn from circulation altogether and burned?
The backstory is that book editor Therese von Hohoff Torrey read this manuscript in 1957 and used it as the starting point to coach an uncertain and insecure Harper Lee in a rewrite that became known as To Kill A Mockingbird.
In 1960, J. B. Lippincott Company published the 40-million copy best seller and Tay Hohoff persuaded Lee to file the original manuscript in her underwear drawer, or some such place.
The Owen Sound City Band is 95 years old this year, and they are holding their annual family picnic at Harrison Park Picnic Shelter, Monday July 20, 2015. Current and former Band members - of whom there must be quite a few after 95 years - and their families are invited to gather to reminisce from 2:30PM on, with a potluck dinner and barbecue starting at 5PM.
RSVP to i[email protected]
This year the family picnic is also being shared with the MS Society, Bruce Grey Chapter, welcoming volunteers, friends and family of those living with Multiple Sclerosis.
RSVP to [email protected] 519-373-3696
Also on hand will be face painting and mini-reflexology treatments available..... fun and caring for the entire family. In respect of the environment, people are encouraged to bring their own dishes, utensils, etc., however, there will be some on hand as well.
Even if you are not a member of one of these groups you should still come down to the park on Monday for the regular Monday City Band Concert starting at 7:30PM at the Harrison Park Bandshell.
-by Cathy Hird
Walking down the street in Owen Sound, I have to be careful about weeding other people's gardens. At home, I will pull ragweed or lambs quarters even when I'm just going for a walk. In town, people might appreciate it if I pulled these weeds out of their garden, but I noticed that several people left golden rod to bloom by their house as if they consider it a flower. It is possible that the homeowner likes the silver-grey colour of the lambs-quarters and let it grow on purpose.
I used to consider mullein a weed--that tall plant with velvety leaves and a spike of yellow flower. I knew a soy bean farmer who called the plant velvet leaf and studiously removed it from their fields. But a few years ago, I visited the garden of a friend, and I realized...
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