Q: I seem to be steadily gaining weight despite eating the same amount and exercising no less than usual. Could it be the medication that I am taking? A: While there are many causes of unexplained weight gain (fluid retention, low thyroid, Cushing’s syndrome, polycystic o...
You don't have to come from a small town to enjoy HAWK Theatre's production of "Small Town Homecoming," but it helps. Mainly because you will recognize every single character on stage as someone you know or have encountered, from the cranky oldtimer to the coffee shop...
Muriel Isabelle (née Quinn) Newton of Kincardine, a Second World War veteran, died at the South Bruce Grey Health Centre, Kincardine, Saturday, April 25, 2015, in her 94th year. Beloved wife of the late Robert Dunlop (1965) and the late Gordon Newton (1998). Dear mother of Shir...
The Kincardine Tartan Twirlers modern square-dance club welcomed clubs from Clinton, Lucknow, Owen Sound and Hanover, to celebrate Kincardine's 40th anniversary at the annual Tart 'n' Cheesecake dance, Friday night at the St. Anthony's School gymnasium. The forerunner o...
The Kincardine Guides and Pathfinders became designers when they made new things out of recycled items. The girls presented a fashion show for their parents, Wednesday night, April 22. Candied treats represented eye shadow, lipstick, rouge, and mascara. High-heeled shoes made from c...
The Lake Huron shoreline, at Kincardine, was covered in ice, while the water further out was a pristine blue, Friday afternoon. While temperatures are warming up again, following a blast of winter early last week, the breeze continues to be chilly despite the sunshine. Meanwhile, Je...
A new bar and grill is set to open in Kincardine next month. Chuck's Roadhouse has moved into the former Crabby Joe's location on Sutton Street, across from the Sutton Park Plaza. Manager Steven Gould welcomes people to drop in with their resumes, as he plans to hire about 4...
The second annual Kincardine Health and Wellness Fair drew a crowd to the Kincardine Hall at the Davidson Centre, Sunday, April 19. A wide variety of vendors promoted everything from ways to keep your body and mind healthy, to products for a healthy home. There were demonstrations o...
Cash Bingo is held every Thursday at the Legion Hall. Doors open at 6 p.m. and Bingo starts at 7 p.m. Friday, May 1, at 7 p.m., is the Kitchen Party in the Clubroom. If you can play piano, guitar, violin, banjo, bass, etc., we need your talents. Spectators are also welcome Friday,...
Members of the South Bruce branch of the Retired Women Teachers of Ontario (RWTO/OERO) met at Chalmers Community Church, Thursday, April 23. Following registration, they introduced themselves and gave an interesting remembrance of their teaching years. Sharron Coulter, Area 1 director,...
A Grade 10 student at Kincardine District Secondary School has qualified for the provincial Skills Ontario competition, May 5, in Waterloo. Declan Mowle, son of Kevin and Joan Mowle of Kincardine, competed in the small engine performance division at the regional Ontario Skills contest ...
After a relaxing and sunny vacation south, I’m back to keep everyone informed of what’s happening in our community. Tiverton Knox Presbyterian Church News Women's Missionary Society (WMS) Mission Awareness Sunday will be held April 26 at 10 a.m. Lunc...
As of 9 p.m. Thursday, April 23, tickets and camping for the 2015 Lucknow's Music in the Fields are sold-out. The Lucknow and District Kinsmen Club, which organizes the two-day country music festival, is thrilled that the event is a sell-out four months in advance. Last y...
The Kincardine and Community Health Care Foundation has received a total of $5,000 in donations from the Clothes Hamper and the Bruce County Conservationists. Sue Young was on hand Thursday afternoon, to present a cheque for $4,000 from the Clothes Hamper Foundation. Located in downtow...
The Ontario Liberal government's budget, released Thursday, is not a substantive plan to get Ontario back on a firm economic footing and eliminate the deficit by 2017-18, says Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson. "My colleagues and I can't support this budget," she ...
IMPAIRED DRIVER FACING DAY IN COURT (HURON TWP, ON) – April 22, at 1:43 a.m., a South Bruce OPP officer on patrol along Highway 21 in Huron Township, stopped a blue Dodge Durango. The officer found that the driver had been drinking alcohol. Fifty-eight-year-old G...
(HURON COUNTY, ON) - The Huron County OPP administrative team is informing the public of an important change to the Criminal Record Check/Police Information Check procedure. Effective May 1, 2015 anyone seeking a Police Criminal Record Check (PCRC), Police Informati...
Tickets are almost sold-out for the 2015 Lucknow's Music in the Fields. The two-day country music festival, organized by the Lucknow and District Kinsmen Club, runs Aug. 28-29 at the Lucknow Soccer Fields. Headliner for Friday night is Dallas Smith, who performed at this e...
Bruce Power has donated $15,000 toward the cost for the Kinetic Knights Robotics Team 781 of Kincardine to attend the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) world championships in St. Louis, Missouri, this weekend. The team left Tuesday night and arrived in S...
The Kincardine District Secondary School Clothing Drive was a great success, generating more than 40 large bags full of clothes which were shared within the school, the Clothes Hamper downtown, throughout the Bluewater District School Board, and donated to a large community exchange....
The South Bruce Grey Health Centre’s board of directors has extended operation of the Restorative Care Unit in Chesley until June 27, to allow study of a recently-completed restorative care capacity assessment for the Grey-Bruce region. A press release from the health centre stat...
Despite opposition to its policy to disconnect hydro service year-round, Westario Power chief executive officer Lisa Milne maintains that this is a last resort after every avenue has been considered. Milne and Randy Hughes, Kincardine's representative on the Westario Power ...
Bruce Power is teaming up with the Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority (SVCA) to restore fish habitat in the North Saugeen River. The SVCA’s Lockerby Dam Decommissioning initiative will see the dam structure removed and the area, including the pond, rehabilitated to i...
POLICE INVESTIGATING THEFT OF TOOLS (KINCARDINE TWP, ON) – April 20, at 9:28 a.m., the South Bruce OPP received the report of a theft from a work site in the 900 block of Bervie Sideroad in Kincardine Township. Sometime between 3 p.m. April 17, and 8:30 a.m. Apri...
DRIVER FACING SEVERAL CHARGES (GODERICH, ON) – A 68-year-old Goderich man is facing several charges including an Over 80 charge after he was stopped by police April 16. At approximately 3 p.m., Huron County OPP officers received information about a possible impai...
Huron-Kinloss council welcomes the construction of a 4-H livestock shelter east of the Ripley-Huron Community Complex, but not near the new Ripley well. At the council meeting last night (April 20), Mike Gallant, spokesman for the project, said the interested parties would prefer to bu...
The Kincardine District Secondary School gymnastics team travelled to Owen Sound Friday (April 17), to the Satellites Gym for the OFSAA (Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations) qualifying meet. Seven athletes qualified for the OFSAA competition in Sudbury in early May. T...
Kincardine is losing two of its newest doctors this summer. Gerry Glover, chief executive officer of the Kincardine Family Health Team, announced Monday that Dr. Rejean Duwyn and Dr. Steven Poirier (R) are closing their medical practices at the Kincardine Community Medical Clinic, effe...
The April meeting of the Purple Grove Women's Institute was held at the home of Wilma Sutton. The gathering began with the recipients of the Ontario Volunteer Awards from 2014 and 2015 sharing memories.It also included the presentation of the certificates to Maureen Collins, Joyce Far...
Christine Elliott, Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) health critic and leadership candidate, had a first-hand look at the desperate infrastructure needs at the Kincardine hospital, Saturday morning. Travelling through the riding with Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson, Elliott was welco...
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) spent three-and-a-half days at the Davidson Centre in Kincardine last week, hearing almost 60 oral submissions regarding Bruce Power's five-year licence renewal application to operate the Bruce A and B generating stations at the Bruce Nucl...
The Kinetic Knights Robotics Team 781 was busy Saturday morning, canvassing the Kincardine area for empty beer and alcohol bottles and cans to raise money for the team's trip to the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) world championships in St. Louis, Mis...
Q: The following are a couple of short paragraphs from medical articles/breakthroughs that have caught our attention in the past few months. If anyone would like the full article with references, contact us at Gordon Pharmasave and we will be happy to pass them along. A: In w...
Kincardine Township-Tiverton Public School raised almost $400 at the "Paint it Yellow for the Cancer Society" walk, Friday afternoon at the school. Students and staff were decked out in yellow clothing, and waved their daffodil pinwheels in the air, as they walked around the ...
Huron Heights Public School and St. Anthony's School in Kincardine held a number of environmental awareness activities Friday, in honour of Earth Day which is April 22. An assembly was held at Huron Heights Friday morning, with lots of student participation. Winners of the Earth Da...
The 16th annual Kincardine Scottish Festival will feature Ashley MacIsaac and The Barra MacNeils in an East Coast Celtic Music Night, Saturday, July 4. Also performing Friday night and Sunday afternoon at the festival, which runs July 3-5 in Victoria Park, are The Mudmen, The Thogs, Th...
The International Women's Day event, held last month, was attended by 90 people and raised $9,400 for Women's House Serving Bruce and Grey. This year, there were a few new things that were enjoyed by all - the trivia game, live auction and One Billion Rising Movement. Peo...
HAWK Theatre's spring production is the premiere of another original play by local playwright Harold Menary. "A Small Town Homecoming," opens April 23 at 7:30 p.m., at the Lucknow Town Hall Theatre. In true small-town fashion, it relates the goings-on during preparatio...
Cash Bingo is held every Thursday at the Legion Hall. Doors open at 6 p.m. and Bingo starts at 7 p.m. Friday, April 24, at 7 p.m., is Trivia Night in the Legion Clubhouse. Test your knowledge. Everyone welcome. The weekly Meat Draw and 50/50 draw will be held Saturday, April 25,...
Organizers of the 2015 Bruce Telecom Lighthouse Blues Festival have announced the line-up for the July 10-12 event, and it is the best yet. Again this year, the ticketed Friday and Saturday night main stage will be hosted in the rear parking lot of the Bruce Steakhouse, overlooking the...