Arts network gets support via Chatham-Kent’s Hydro One fund

Chatham-Kent Arts and Culture Network has won municipal funding via the Hydro One Reserve to continue its community mission. The network, which works to expand the arts locally, will get $25,000 a year for three years at no cost to taxpayers. “We are grateful to Mayor Darrin Canniff and the municipality . . . for […]

More funding needed for child welfare

Protecting the region’s most vulnerable children has become increasingly more difficult in recent years due to inadequate funding to the child welfare sector, the local children’s aid society says. Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville says they are facing a series of challenges due to a lack of provincial funding in recent […]

Vehicle burns in parking lot off Lakeshore Road

Kelowna firefighters are mopping up after a car fire off Lakeshore Road.The vehicle burned in the parking lot of the old Mission Meats at Lakeshore Road and Lexington Drive.Crews were called to the fire at roughly 3 p.m. after a worker of a neighbouring office building looked out the window …