by Kelly BabcockWednesday, November 11th, from 6PM to 8:30, at the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library, join Dave Hawkins of 8th St. Music Factory for Collaborative Hour & Open Mic - the Ukulele edition. No experience with the ukulele? No problem! The 8th Street Music Factory will be providing ukuleles for all to try. admission: free
Thursday, November 12th, at 8PM, at Heartwood Concert Hall, 939 Main St., come out and see Ian Sherwood and Coco Love Alcorn live at Heartwood Concert Hall. Ian and Coco; two ECMA nominated artists share the stage for an evening of original music and storytelling at it's best. admission: $15, doors at 7:30PM
Thursday, November 12th, at 9PM, at the Avalon Jazz Lounge & Patio, 229 9th Street E., It's Jazz Jam! Come out and jam on any kind of jazz you want. Bring an instrument or your voice and join Kaelin Murphy at the Avalon! admission: pay what you can
Friday, November 13th, at 9PM, at the Avalon Jazz Lounge & Patio, 229 9th Street E., Koopa Troop brings the nostalgic sounds of video games to life in a quirky 5-piece ensemble. Donning their Nintendo-themed costumes, 5 Toronto jazz musicians embrace their inner nerd and become a live, musical nostalgia machine. admission: pay what you can
Saturday, November 14th, at 12 Noon, at Frog Ponds Café, 209, 8th St. E., SHORE THING from ...
-by Curtis Healy
Out there on a strip of land created by the St. Lawrence, commonly called Grosse Isle, there are graves, names in a direct line, names of my grandfathers and grandmothers, of my mother and my father. They came here fleeing a natural disaster neglected by a government under an act of union that claimed they were citizen-subjects of the same country. The city of Montreal is about to pump untreated sewage into the waters that create this sacred ground, claiming that it will have dissipated before it can wash up and profane it. But from one section of the water to another, like the black rock screams, it is all connected; those who landed in Montreal, the 6000 dead the stone speaks for, buried their dead at the typhus quarantine on Grosse, before they made their way west, to join them in the pit.
Even if you don't take the page of ancestors or sacred, personal heritage grounds into the equation, have the people of this city, forgotten their own history, both local and national? Have they never heard of or simply forgotten ...
The City of Owen Sound's Winter Guide for 2015-2016 has hit the streets, highlighting the best of the season's offerings.
The guide includes a profile of our vibrant downtown, plus information about the Festival of Northern Lights, local music, outdoor activities, museums and galleries, Attack hockey, public skating, and a full list of events to enjoy in the Scenic City from now until Spring.
This is the sixth annual Winter Guide for Owen Sound, a four-season destination and cultural hub of Grey County. Special events for this winter include the award-winning Festival of Northern Lights, Festival in the Park, Festive First Friday in downtown Owen Sound, Moreston by Candlelight, Frisky First Friday, the Grey-Bruce Chinese New Year celebrations and...
The Hub asked Jake Doherty, former publisher of The Owen Sound Sun Times, Kingston Whig Standard and the Hamilton Spectator, about the changes in newspapers over his career. Find Part 1 of his reply here.
by John (Jake) Doherty
Leap ahead with me to my first jobs at The Spec as editorial page editor and, quite soon, to executive editor, a very exciting time as we were moving into a new plant with three large presses. Our newsroom was longer than a football field where we all learned to work on computers. Gone was the rapid fire clacking of dozens of typewriters as we approached deadlines and the visceral sense that we were literally pounding out our stories.
My boss, at that time, the late John Muir, also believed that the editor of the Spec should be seen as worldly wise against the competition from Toronto, only 40 kms down the QEW. Quite significantly, all sold their morning editions in Hamilton. Often I took a bus into work from Burlington where my family lived, and used the time to read the Globe before I reached the office.
Two important changes came quickly that had an huge impact, both on the paper and myself, changes and standards which no longer exist today as declining advertising and circulation revenue have dropped. The first one was that we began covering far more investigative stories
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