Huron-Bruce MP Ben Lobb is encouraging employers to apply for funding through the Canada Summer Jobs program to help create student jobs. Canada Summer Jobs helps students gain the skills and experience they need to be successful, while earning money for the upcoming school year. The p...
At the request of the Municipality of Kincardine, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has announced $50,000 in funding for the Lake Huron Learning Centre in Kincardine, to help ensure its continued operation in 2017. “Skills training at the Lake Huron Learning Centre helps to develop ...
IMPAIRED DRIVER INVOLVED IN CRASH (KINCARDINE TWP, ON) – Dec. 7, at 6:13 p.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a two-vehicle crash on Bruce County Road 23 in Kincardine Township. Officers arrived to find that a red GMC Sierra pick-up and a green Dodge Caravan ...
Q: I understand there will be a new type of shingles vaccine coming out soon. What can you tell me about it and should I hold off getting the current one (Zostavax ll) in order to wait for it? A: The new shingles vaccine, which is expected to be available to the public sometime in late...
(SOUTH HURON, ON) – A recent theft of Christmas presents could have made for just another sad story that we sometimes here about this time of year; however, this story has a different ending - a much nicer one! The story began last Friday evening, Dec. 2, when a kind and generous...
Fire has destroyed a $300,000 home on the 12th Concession of Bruce Township in the Municipality of Kincardine. Kincardine fire chief Kent Padfield said firefighters were called to the scene Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 5:20 p.m. “The first arriving fire crews found the home fully inv...
After an unbelievably mild and sunny autumn, the Kincardine area got its first dose of winter Thursday morning as snow and high wind made for some treacherous driving conditions, and the bitter cold woke people up to the change in season. The blowing and drifting snow, and snow squalls...
Jamie Richardson of Gulfport, Mississippi, formerly of the Kincardine area, became a world record holder after 150 hours of ringing the bell for the Salvation Army kettle. Richardson grew up in Purple Grove, went to school in Ripley and Kincardine and worked at the Davidson Centre befo...
DRIVER CHARGED AT TWO-VEHICLE CRASH (KINCARDINE, ON) – Dec. 6, at 8:31 a.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Durham Street and River Lane in Kincardine. Officers attended and learned that a white Toyota Venza and an o...
The Kincardine Theatre Guild brought a song of Christmas cheer to open the Kincardine council meeting last night (Dec. 7). The Sing-O-Gram, commissioned by councillor Laura Haight, touched on several major issues from the council table over the past year, from budget time and Bruce Tel...
The December Mega Meat Draw will be held Dec. 17 in the hall. Tickets go on sale at 2:30 p.m., with the first draw at 3 p.m. There will be our eight regular meat draws plus eight draws for turkeys, a raffle for a $50 LCBO gift card and another draw for a $50 Beef Way gift certificate. The...
Students hoping to spend a week this summer at the Bruce-Grey (Walkerton) MedLINCS camp (formerly MedQUEST), will be disappointed to hear that the program has been discontinued. As a community partner with the Distributed Education Network of Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, ...
Christmas traditions was the theme for the Bervie Women’s Institute meeting, held Wednesday, Dec. 7, at the Bervie United Church at 10 a.m. Ten members and three guests answered the Roll Call with a Christmas tradition and a stamped Christmas card for shut-ins. Most of the tradit...
(HURON EAST, ON) - Investigators with the West Region OPP Technical Traffic Collision Investigation Team continue to investigate a two-vehicle crash that killed a Clinton teen late Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 6. Just after 4:35 p.m., the Huron County OPP, Central Huron Fi...
The Kincardine Celebration Singers spared no expense to bring their special guests, four stylishly-dressed Hawaiian dancers, to the performance of their Christmas concert, Monday afternoon at Trillium Court Seniors' Community, Kincardine. It added some humour to a wonderful program...
The Ripley Ravens girls volleyball team won the Owen Sound District Secondary School elementary tournament, held Saturday in Owen Sound. Ripley defeated its first opponents, Bruce Peninsula School, 25-22, 25-8, and Bayview of Owen Sound, 25-18, 25-8, in straight sets. The girls then...
SOUTH BRUCE OPP AUXILIARY FILLING A CRUISER FOR FOOD BANK (KINCARDINE, ON) – Members of the South Bruce OPP Auxiliary Unit will be at area grocery stores Saturday, Dec. 10, collecting donations to “fill-a-cruiser” for the Kincardine Food Bank. 10 a.m. to N...
If you haven't purchased tickets for the Kincardine Community Singers Christmas concert, slated for this weekend at Knox Presbyterian Church, Kincardine, your choice has now narrowed to just the Sunday night. The Saturday afternoon performance is sold out; and it's certainly a ...
Huron-Kinloss mayor Mitch Twolan has made history as the first mayor in 134 years to hold the post of Bruce County warden for three consecutive one-year terms. Twolan was acclaimed to the position Thursday (Dec. 1). When he announced in July that he was running for a third term as w...
Tracey Howe of Kincardine has won the third annual "Where's Liz?" contest. Heather (left, in photo at right) and Sam Finnie make the draw This year, more than 20 photos were submitted by 16 photographers. Thanks to the following for sendi...
POLICE INVESTIGATING BREAK-IN (KINCARDINE, ON) – Dec. 4, at 7:56 p.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a break-in at a residence in the 600 block of Scott Street in Kincardine. Sometime between Nov. 24 at Noon, and Dec. at 6 p.m., the residence was forcibly en...
We are so thankful to all the folks who have put up lovely Christmas light displays on their homes. What fun to drive around our villages and countryside and enjoy everyone’s hard work. The driving snow Sunday evening made us more conscious that it is December. Congratul...
DRIVER CAUGHT IN AFTERNOON RIDE CHECKPOINT (CENTRAL HURON, ON) – A 39-year-old Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh man is facing an Over-80 charge, following a traffic stop that took place this past weekend. At 3:25 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 3, a Dodge Ram pick-up truck entered a Redu...
It was a cold and breezy night for the Kincardine Santa Claus Parade, but that didn't stop the huge crowd that turned out for the event Saturday evening. More than 40 floats, featuring bands, groups, organizations, schools and businesses, wended their way from the Sutton Park Mall ...
A great crowd rushed into the basement of Knox Presbyterian Church, Tiverton, Saturday morning, to fill containers full of cookies, squares and treats, at the annual Cookie Walk. Volunteers were refilling trays as fast as they were being cleared, while people selected from a tremendous...
The Kincardine Community Singers are perfectly in tune for their Christmas concert, "Christmas on Broadway," which runs Dec. 10-11, at Knox Presbyterian Church, Kincardine. If Wednesday night's dress rehearsal is any indication, this is going to be a stellar show, with th...
The gymnasium at St. Anthony's School, Kincardine, was a busy place Saturday morning, as people gathered to check out the delightful artwork and crafts available for sale at the annual Artisan Fair. The event featured a great variety of Christmas decorations, as well as treats and ...
The Tiverton Lions Club served almost 200 people at the 38th annual seniors Christmas dinner held Friday at the Whitney Crawford Community Centre in Tiverton. Hank Van Moorsel welcomed everyone and noted that a number of the primary students at Kincardine Township-Tiverton Public Schoo...
Two local FIRST Lego League (FLL) teams have advanced to the provincial finals in Waterloo, after winning awards at the qualifying regional held Nov. 26 at Kincardine District Secondary School. The Port Elgin Harambe Lovers won the Robot Performance award and the Champion award, while ...
Eighty per cent of the support needed by people with health issues is provided by family or by friends and neighbours. Kylie Pyke, guest of the Reid’s Corners Women’s Institute, announced this startling fact at the November meeting. Through her franchise, Retire-at- Home...
The Walker House in Kincardine is awash in a colourful display of nativity scenes from all over the world. A fund-raiser in support of Kincardine's oldest building and the Paddy Walker Heritage Society, the Nativities Display is a remarkable sight, featuring the familiar grouping o...
A cookie walk is being held at the Ripley-Huron Community Centre tomorrow (Saturday, Dec. 3), from 10 a.m. to Noon, in support of the Lyme Aid for Dave campaign. Dave Underwood of Kincardine suffers from Lyme Disease and has undergone costly treatment in the United States. As he contin...
Bruce Power has been named the 2016 recipient of the Ontario Business Achievement Award for Sustainability. The award, presented at a gala event Tuesday in Toronto, goes to ‘a business that has demonstrated that being a leader in sustainability makes good business sense.’ ...
IMPAIRED DRIVER LOSES CONTROL (KINCARDINE, ON) – Dec. 2, at 12:30 a.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a single-vehicle crash on Andrew Malcolm Drive in Kincardine. Officers arrived to find a grey Pontiac G5 had struck a light pole. The driver was found to ha...
The Kincardine Community Concert Band performed its Christmas concert at Trillium Court Seniors' Community, Kincardine, Wednesday night. The beautiful Christmas music soared throughout the atrium, as the 25-member band played a variety of songs, from traditional Christmas carols to...
It was rainy weather, Saturday, but that didn’t stop the crowd from coming to Tiverton Park Manor’s seventh annual Christmas Bazaar and open house. Shoppers enjoyed checking out the wares of the 16 vendors at the show, hoping to find that perfect gift for someone. Amo...
Rather than address the financial problems with the Cap-and-Trade scheme, as identified Wednesday by Ontario's Auditor General (AG), provincial environment minister Glen Murray continues to deny the impact this misguided scheme will have on the budgets of families and businesses, says...
(SOUTHERN BRUCE COUNTY, ON) – The South Bruce OPP recommends that vehicle owners and operators follow the Auto Theft Protection Tips of the Lock-it or Lose-it program. This becomes especially important during the holidays which are hectic enough without becoming a victim of theft. ...
A new company is moving to Kincardine and leasing the office space where AREVA was located (the former Canadian Agra building) on Highway 21. But AREVA is not leaving Kincardine. Tom Uzzell, conventional service and product line manager with AREVA, said Wednesday that the main building...
One date to mark on your calendar, with all those other Christmas events, is our December Mega Meat Draw which will be held Dec. 17 in the hall. Tickets go on sale at 2:30 p.m. with first draw at 3 p.m. There will be our eight regular meat draws plus eight draws for turkeys and a raffle f...