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1 week ago | 
shorelinebeacon.com | Frances Learment
Advertisement 1Grey Bruce breast cancer survivors row with hope with the official launch of Bernie's Boat in Southampton. • Article contentChristened with pink sparkling wine, Bernie’s Boat, a dragon boat powered by Grey Bruce breast cancer survivors, was officially launched with a June 18 ceremony on the Saugeen River in Southampton.
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1 week ago | 
shorelinebeacon.com | Frances Learment
Advertisement 1The Society of United Professionals 'Canada United' t-shirt campaign shows pride in the country and its workers. • Article contentThe Canada United t-shirts delivered to Town councillors by local Society of United Professionals (SUP) executives not only upped their sartorial look, wearing them sends a message of municipal support for CANDU nuclear technology.
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1 week ago | 
shorelinebeacon.com | Frances Learment
Advertisement 1While the cardboard boat races is the marquee event at the annual Marine Heritage Festival on the Southampton waterfront, it’s just part of the work done by Marine Heritage Society-Propeller Club volunteers to preserve and enhance the marine history of the Lake Huron shoreline.
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2 weeks ago | 
shorelinebeacon.com | Frances Learment
Advertisement 1It will be weeks before 10 people displaced from their Port Elgin apartments by a $500,000 fire of undetermined origin can return home. • • Article contentIt could be weeks before 10 Port Elgin residents can return to their Johnston Ave. apartments following a $500,000 fire early June 11 that burned a 20-foot hole in the roof of an unoccupied unit in the building that includes eight apartments and offices.
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2 weeks ago | 
shorelinebeacon.com | Frances Learment
Saugeen Shores Special Olympians and local police participated, along with approximately 80 other Grey Bruce athletes and police in the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run that kicked off in Southampton June 11. • Article contentSaugeen Shores Special Olympics athletes joined with 80 other Grey Bruce athletes and police in Owen Sound, Hanover, West Grey June 11 in annual aw Enforcement Torch Runs runs across the region.
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2 weeks ago | 
shorelinebeacon.com | Frances Learment
Advertisement 1Concerns the Strong Mayor Powers legislation could result in one person with too much power prompted Saugeen Shores Mayor Luke Charbonneau to delegate decision making authority back to the Chief Administrative Officer and Council. • • Article contentCollaborative governance is working well in Saugeen Shores and Mayor Luke Charbonneau would like to keep it that way.
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2 weeks ago | 
shorelinebeacon.com | Frances Learment
Advertisement 1Members of the Saugeen District Senior School Law Club team a, their teachers and coaches were honoured with Certificates of Recognition for winning the first Grey Bruce Mock Trial Competition. • • Article contentAs a defendant in a mock criminal harassment trial, Saugeen District Senior School Law Club member Abhayveer Singh, earned an acquittal and got rave reviews from a sitting judge at the first Grey-Bruce Mock Trial Competition at the Owen Sound Courthouse May 22.
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3 weeks ago | 
shorelinebeacon.com | Frances Learment
Advertisement 1Neglected butterfly gardens in Saugeen Shores will be rejuvenated as part of the Butterflyway Project to improve habitat for pollinators. • • Article contentTown Saugeen Shores councillors were very receptive – two offered their property and seed/plant stock – to a request from resident Terry Wilson for support for a Butterflyway Project in Saugeen Shores.
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3 weeks ago | 
shorelinebeacon.com | Frances Learment
Advertisement 1With music, food, flowers and glam, local seniors and graduating high school students partied at the Southampton Care Centre annual prom. • • Article contentMicky Majury, 81, didn’t go to her Paisley high school prom – no steady beau and no ride – but she made up for it June 3 at the Southampton Care Centre (SCC) when she escorted into the 1950’s-themed prom by Adam, 18, a Grade 12 graduating class student at Saugeen District Senior School (SDSS).
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4 weeks ago | 
shorelinebeacon.com | Frances Learment
• • Article contentThe multi-hued PRIDE flag – the universal symbol of inclusion and acceptance – was temporarily raised on the Town flagpole in Port Elgin at a May 30 ceremony to mark PRIDE Month and acknowledge and celebrate the local SLGBTQIA+ community and allies. The flag was then returned to half-staff to honour the four Walkerton students and a teacher killed in a traffic collision near London May 23.
