Participation, Empathy, Advocacy, Community and Empowerment: these are the values the YMCA of Owen Sound Grey Bruce is looking for in the next recipient of the YMCA Peace Medal. Residents are invited to visit ymcaowensound.on.ca and nominate a deserving person for this award before Monday, October 16. Hard copies of the nomination package are available at our YMCA Health, Fitness & Aquatics facility.
YMCA Peace Week invites people of all ages to reflect on peace, to talk, and to take action,...
As part of its 2018-19 Funding Engagement Guide, the Ministry of Education has included questions about possible changes to the provincial Pupil Accommodation Review Guidelines. The proposed changes include longer timelines for the consultation/review process, as well as requirements that school boards provide more "accommodation options" and consider the impact of school closings on the community....
The 39th Annual Book Sale at the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library will take place from October 23 to the 30th, with a special preview sale for library members on October 22. This significant fundraiser has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the library, usually about $15,000 each year. It has also recycled close to a million books back into...
Around the turn of the era, ten lepers lived on the threshold between Galilee and Samaria near the road to Jerusalem. Because this road was travelled by pilgrims going to the temple, it was a good place to beg. People seeking God tended to be charitable even if they were not usually compassionate.
Although the disease called leprosy in that time was not the ...
Why does a young woman want to sing songs that were popular in World Wars I and II, decades before she was born? Kelda Mikalson says the songs are beautiful in melody and lyrics, and filled with feeling. "People wonder how a concert of wartime songs could be fun," Kelda laughs. "But the songs make you think about how people - at the front and back home - worked, joked and cried together and supported each other. That is how...
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