Kincardine chief administrative officer Murray Clarke will be strapping on a pair of ladies' red high-heeled shoes for a good cause, Sunday, in Port Elgin. He is one of a group of brave men who are participating in the Bruce County "Walk A Mile In Her Shoes" event in supp...
The Tiverton and District Lions will be holding a Walk for Dog Guides, Sunday, May 31, at 1 p.m. at the Lions Hall. Pledge sheets are available in local businesses. There will be a “Decoration Day” at the Port Bruce Cemetery, Sunday, May 31, at 2 p.m. Everyone is ...
Team It's All Gone To Shitz has almost doubled its original fund-raising goal for the Gutsy Walk, slated for Sunday, June 7, in Walkerton. The team held a yard sale, part of the Ripley village-wide event Saturday, May 16, and raised $705 for the cause, thanks to the generosity of e...
First Student school buses in the Kincardine area were on the road, as normal, Thursday, as a possible strike was averted late Wednesday night. In an update at 10:38 p.m., May 20, the Student Transportation Service Consortium of Grey-Bruce stated that First Student (Kincardine) and Uni...
Twenty-one members and guests, including ladies from Purple Grove Women's Institute and Kinloss Kairshea W.I., met at the Pine River United Church, Wednesday morning, for the May meeting of the Reid’s Corners W.I. After coffee and goodies and a brief business meeting,...
(HURON COUNTY, ON) - It’s nearly five complete months into the 2015 calendar year and the Huron County OPP has charged 34 drivers with Impaired Driving and/or Over-80 Milligrams offences. By comparison, at this point in 2014, Huron OPP had laid 18 charges. This signif...
The South Bruce OPP joined forces with Special Olympians for the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run, Wednesday morning, through downtown Kincardine. Jackie McDonald carried the torch high as she and constable Andrew Werle led the way from Quinn Plaza to Victoria Park. Donations were acce...
The South Bruce natural gas initiative is moving into the next phase as the three municipalities - Kincardine, Huron-Kinloss and Arran-Elderslie - have announced they could be in a position to select a distribution service partner by the end of the summer. Tuesday (May 19), the three m...
The Kincardine and District Lions Club is upset that, during the Victoria Day holiday weekend, someone knocked over and damaged the construction fence at the site of the Splash Pad, beside the Davidson Centre in Kincardine. Public relations chairman, George Ling, says the club has been...
DRIVER CHARGED AFTER OFFICER AVOIDS COLLISION (KINCARDINE TWP, ON) – May 18, at 4:12 p.m., a South Bruce OPP officer on patrol along Highway 21 in Kincardine Township, was forced to brake hard to avoid an oncoming Nissan Versa that was passing a line of vehicles. ...
Mark Ozorio, former teacher and vice-principal at Kincardine District Secondary School, is returning this fall as the school's principal. Current principal at John Diefenbaker Senior School in Hanover, Ozorio swaps places with Randall DeKraker who has been at KDSS since 2011. Sh...
Educators and parents could be in for a struggle to get their children to school tomorrow (May 21) if school bus drivers go on strike. A message from the Student Transportation Service Consortium of Grey-Bruce, states that First Student Canada has indicated the potential for a strike T...
The South Bruce Grey Health Centre - Kincardine hospital auxiliary sold almost 2,300 plants at its annual geranium sale this year - a new record. Last year, there were 2,200 geraniums sold. The flowers are pre-ordered, and organizer Nicole Whitwell said there were 2,264 sold, with abou...
A great crowd flocked to the equipment bays at the Lake Huron Learning Centre, looking for a bargain at the annual Kincardine Lions Club giant yard sale on the weekend. There was a wide assortment of items available, including furniture, books, household goods, Christmas decorations, a...
The Bluewater Summer Playhouse has announced its 2015 season, full of music and comedy, with three plays and four spectacular musical performances. Ralph Small returns as artistic director, and Bruce Power is the season sponsor. Other major sponsors include the Municipality of Kincardi...
The Bruce County Blues brought its popular ‘Blues in the Schools' program to Kincardine and area, presenting national touring artists Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley to six local schools at the end of April. Diana Braithwaite is a descendant of the Wellington C...
Get out and vote, and vote for Allan Thompson as your next MP for Huron-Bruce. That's the word from retired general and former senator Roméo Dallaire who drew a sold-out crowd for "An Evening With Roméo Dallaire" at the Kincardine Legion, Friday night, ...
About 20 fiddlers and a dozen dancers drew a great crowd to the corner of Huron Terrace and Harbour Street, beside the Walker House, Kincardine, for World Fiddle Day, Saturday afternoon. The fiddlers were from Kincardine and area, with special guests Randy Morrison and Devon Ballagh. ...
It took a little coaxing, but the hot, sunny weather finally hit the Kincardine area by Saturday afternoon of the Victoria Day holiday weekend. Saturday morning was foggy, damp and cold. But the sun broke through by late afternoon, and by Sunday, it was gorgeous weather for walking the...
The Kincardine Sunset Quilters' Guild hosted about 150 quilters at the second annual Gathering of the Guilds, held Tuesday afternoon at the Kincardine Pavilion. Organizers hope this event will become an annual gathering. The first one was organized by the Georgian Quilters' Gui...
Tiverton Fall Fair Ambassador Kerri Rice is off on a new adventure this summer. The 18-year-old, Grade 12 student at Kincardine District Secondary School, has been selected by the local Lions Clubs to go to Hawaii as a Canadian ambassador with the Lions youth exchange program. Kerri...
The Victoria Park Gallery in downtown Kincardine is offering a double-bill for the month of May. The Kincardine Sunset Quilters' Guild has the entries for its Past-President's Challenge 2015 displayed; and local artist Andrea Zimmer has her work hanging in the guest gallery as ...
Twenty young people with the Ripley Horticultural Society's youth club learned about birds and frogs at the home of Allard and Tryntje Eisen, Saturday, May 16. Once they had completed the course, each member received an "I Know My Backyard Birds" Certificate of Reco...
Q: I plan to become pregnant soon; what vitamins and minerals are important for me to take? A: There are a number of important vitamins and minerals to take and for some, it is important to begin taking them two to three months before you do get pregnant. The amounts listed here are no...
Four new faces have joined the cast in the Kincardine Theatre Guild's production of "Murder by the Book," which opens May 22 at the Kincardine Arts Centre. Dylan Trahan plays a detective; Deb Tripp plays Pam; Jennifer Neil plays Nathaniel; and Jackie Simoes plays Sasha th...
PCS ELECT BROWN AS NEW LEADER OF THE PARTY May 13, 2015 The Ontario Progressive Conservatives (PCs) have elected their new leader, the MP for Barrie, Patrick Brown. "It was a long, well-fought leadership race," says Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson,...
The Kincardine Guiding units welcomed their special guests to the annual Mother's Day Tea, held Tuesday, May 12, for Sparks and Brownies at Kincardine Baptist Church, and Wednesday, May 13, for Guides and Pathfinders at Kincardine United Church. The mothers, grandmothers, aunts and...
A crane was brought in for the seasonal boat lift at the Kincardine Harbour, Saturday, May 9. Members of the Kincardine Yacht Club assisted by guiding the boats as they were removed from the stands, where they sat all winter, and were lowered into the water. Come the fall, the boats...
May is Community Living Month and there have been numerous activities going on to increase awareness of this organization in Kincardine and area. Representatives attended council meetings in Kincardine and Huron-Kinloss, bringing treats and requesting the municipalities fly the Communi...
You may have noticed the Hydrangea trees have been placed around the village. That’s a sure sign that summer is on the way! Tiverton Bloomers will be looking for volunteers to help plant flowers in the village. Planting day will be June 6. Watch for details. Anyone wanting to hel...
The Ripley-Huron Community Centre has a new sound system, thanks to the support of the Ripley Lions Club, Ripley Minor Hockey, and the Ripley-Huron Figure Skating Club, in partnership with the Society of Energy Professionals Bruce Power Local. The sound system was recently installed by...
Blair Chaput has tied the Ainsdale Golf Course record with an incredible 67. He was shooting minus-five on the back nine from the blue tees, with 10 total putts on the back nine and a bogey on his only two-putt. Witness to this great round were club pro Joey Rettinger, Rick Ki...
Mary Ritter of Kincardine took the following photos of a beautiful rainbow, Tuesday night, May 12, behind the Kincardine Baptist Church on Queen Street, Kincardine.
Wednesday, hundreds gathered outside Queen's Park to express their frustration with the Liberal government's unaffordable hydro rates. "People came from across the province, including Huron-Bruce, to tell the government that enough is enough," says H...
POLICE LOOKING FOR STOLEN UTILITY TRAILER (WALKERTON, ON) – May 12, at 3:10 p.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a theft from a produce business located along Ontario Road in Walkerton. Sometime between April 28 and May 12, a silver 2012 Stor 712 util...
With time running out and few options, Kincardine council is attempting to salvage at least part of the proposed Inverhuron water and sewer project. In a unanimous recorded vote last night (May 13), council agreed to request a two-year extension for the Building Canada Fund gra...
The crowd was antsy as it gathered at the entrance door to the Tiverton Lions Garage Sale which began Friday night and ran through Saturday morning, at the Tiverton Community Centre Annex. Prior to the sale opening Friday night, people enjoyed a barbecue, served by the Lions Club. A...
Four teams of enthusiastic participants took their turn onboard the Big Bike for Heart and Stroke, as it toured through downtown Kincardine, Monday, May 4. The team of Sun Life Financial and Kincardine Realtors rode the 30-seater bike through the pouring rain Monday morning, as did the...
POLICE LOOKING FOR DRIVER INVOLVED IN PEDESTRIAN CRASH (WALKERTON, ON) – May 8, at 12:46 p.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a crash involving a pedestrian along Yonge Street South in Walkerton. Officers arrived to find that a 15-year-old Brockton te...
(GODERICH, ON) – Tuesday, May 12, the OPP Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau – Drug Enforcement Unit, West Region Emergency Response Team and Huron County OPP executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrant at a residence located on Blake Street in the Town of Go...