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Walkerton
Walkerton Lawn Bowling Club tournament
On Thursday, July 23, the Walkerton Lawn Bowling Club held another successful tournament – weather was perfect and volunteers did a great job organizing the day.
Tori Hopcraft crowned 2026 Walkerton Homecoming Ambassador
WALKERTON – Walkerton’s 2016 Homecoming Ambassador, Jessica Westman, crowned her successor, 2026 Ambassador Tori Hopcraft, in a gala event at the Knights of Columbus Hall on July 26.
Craig named chair of new health board
GREY BRUCE – Almost a year after Ontario’s chief medical officer of health (MOH), Dr. Kieran Moore, assumed the powers of the Grey Bruce board of health, local governance has been restored.
SVCA’s 2027 draft budget calls for 2.5 per cent increase
FORMOSA – Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority (SVCA) is working on its 2027 budget, as the province has directed. Conservation authorities (CAs) have been instructed to have their budgets completed, including invoices sent out to municipalities, by the end of this calendar year.
Smoke gets in your eyes – and lungs
The song, “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” was written by composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harback for the 1933 musical comedy Roberta, and has been performed and recorded numerous times, by many famous musicians and singers.
Local Lions Clubs working together for a great cause
Six local Lions Clubs - Neustadt and District, Formosa and District, West Grey/Durham, Chepstow and District, Mildmay and District, and Pike Lake Minto - have united to make a transformative contribution to community hospice care.
Walkerton Herald-Times July 30 Turnbacks
From July 30, 1996.
‘Window of opportunity’ closing for Pinkerton dam repair
PINKERTON – Time is running out to get the Pinkerton dam repaired this year.
Community newspaper need fair rates, quality service from Canada Post
TORONTO – Community newspaper publishers are asking the Honourable Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement and Québec Lieutenant, to direct Canada Post to offer publishers the same rate it offers to the country’s dominant flyer printer.
