Reader issues an election challenge
To the Editor:
Councilors have often spoken of their support for the Train yet a deal could not be made.
Beware the incumbent who still blames the...
A Senior Moment – “TRAVELLIN’ BY THUMB”
An interesting article in last month’s MacLean’s Magazine reawakened some long-forgotten memories of my reckless youth. Peter Shawn Taylor (“Thumbs Down”, August, 2018), evoked...
Kudos … and Nots! by ‘The Stix Man’
Busy but relaxing time on Labor Day Sunday
In Saugeen Shores
A Great Place to celebrate it.
KUDOS ?
It is over a week past, but I thought...
Kudos … and Nots! by ‘The Stix Man’
“A GEM”
A Gem in the middle of the town
Fairy (Little) Lake in Beautiful Southampton, Saugeen Shores
KUDOS
It was a rainy, misty, humid morning but we...
A Senior Moment – “A Hand Out or a Hand Up?”
John was 14 years old, had lived all his young life in subsidized “Ontario Housing,” with the family’s basic needs provided since his birth...
Trump and … Bruce County
I met a resident on High Street in Southampton recently. He is a reader of the Saugeen Times. He asked me if I had...
Serendipity – a strange thing
Serendipity is a strange thing and the word itself has been deemed one of the 10 most difficult English words to translate.
It can mean...
A SENIOR MOMENT – “FAREWELL TO WELFARE?”
On July 31, the Ontario Government announced it would be scrapping the Guaranteed Basic Income program (G.B.I) which had been implemented on a trial...
Residents voice concerns and raise petition
To the Editor:
On August 20th, a second hearing will be held at Town Council to decide if the new Unifor parking lot will be...
A Senior Moment – “LOOK AT ME!”
“Grandpa, Look at me put my head under water.”
“Grandma, watch what I can do on my rope swing”
“Grandpa, come and see me hit the...
Procedural By-law against Charter of Rights says reader
Council has successfully preserved its destruction of Democracy in Saugeen Shores.
Procedural rule 14.11 provides:
“A delegation, once heard, shall not be entitled to be...
Education Minister praises Indigenous students’ presentation on Residential Schools then axes new curriculum
On Sunday last (July 8th), my partner and I were attending a Truth and Reconciliation Dinner at a church in Southampton. We found ourselves...
“You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”
Dear Editor:
What a shame! In the name of progress, we are losing a bit more of our green space and natural ecological habitat! This...
A Senior Moment: ‘Us and Them’
“---we have a national identity, we are proud of it, you come into this country you have to integrate, you have to learn our...
