Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Scouting is the “whole package” when it comes to helping boys and girls grow and learn outside of school. “We like to think it offers a bit of everything,” says Craig Armstrong 1st Gravenhurst assistant group commissioner. “Fun, education, sports, outdoors, camping and good citizenship. “Other groups have their […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A new dedicated MAHC website puts its case to the public for two distinctly different hospitals and includes its latest spring offering. The site created by Algonquin Digital, which operated the IT portion of their recent community meetings, provides all of the information shown on screens in those often […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Mary Jane Reid has grown up with hundreds of Cubs, Beavers, Scouts and Venturers who are today leading productive lives and in many cases now are leading members of this community. In more than half a century of scouting, the Group Commissioner has learned as much about life and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — With the first carbon rebate cheques being cashed in rural Canada, Ontario Greens are offering free “simple choices” on how to reduce your carbon footprints Saturday at the Active Living Centre in Huntsville. The free, public climate conference is on from 1 to 4:30 p.m. and is presented by […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Amy Dodington “loves Bach.” But the soprano songstress is delighted to solo on Myroslav Skoryk’s “Melodia” April 28 when the Muskoka Concert Association presents the Elmer Iseler Singers at the Opera House in a Sunday night return engagement. Skoryk was a Ukrainian composer and teacher whose contemporary music style […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Keeping tabs on Rotary community projects (all thanks to donors like you) is a like predicting the weather. It’s always changing. Last month in Bracebridge they raised $29,000 for Ukrainians and to bring another Syrian family to the Heart of Muskoka. Here in Gateway to Muskoka the big news […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com QUEEN’S PARK — A petition “to disregard” MAHC directors has officially been presented to the province. It only took half a minute yesterday for MPP Ric Bresee, member for Hasting-Lennox and Addington, to stand in the legislature yesterday during petitions period to present the signatures of more than 4,000 people in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — “Transparency, clarity and inclusiveness” are this week’s catchwords for Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare as they admit to trying to convince a skeptical public — notably those in south Muskoka — of what’s being proposed of late (this week) as it works toward a late 2024 twin-hospitals proposal to the province. […]