Mon Feb 12: What Happens When Large Investors & Corporate Landlords Go Under?

Plus: What is sustainability all about, anyway? Community contributor Nicole Egan shares an interview with a local changemaker.

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Receding ice in the Owen Sound harbour, pictured on an unseasonably warm February 10, 2024. Photo credit: David Strutt

There’s a City of Owen Sound Council meeting tonight, so we sent out the agenda breakdown for you to check out over the weekend.

Council will hear from the Community Safety & Well-Being Steering Committee, consider staff recommendations on a number of issues, and receive minutes from the Owen Sound Police Services Board, Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library, and Strategic Planning Ad Hoc Committee – each with info and recommendations for council inside.

In case you missed it:

Owen Sound Council Agenda: Monday Feb 12, 2024

And if you want to tune in tonight, you can view the meeting via Rogers TV or on the City’s Council and Committees webpage.

Community Contribution

“Sustainability is a big word. A term with many interpretations and applications, it gets thrown around all over the place. It might refer to efforts to protect the environment, strategies to promote social and economic well-being, or principles to guide ethical and responsible actions.

And hey, let’s be honest, sometimes ‘sustainability’ is just about brand building, obscuring meaning with vague usage.”

Thankfully, as Nicole Egan writes in her most recent community column, sustainability is not only achievable but doesn’t have to be that complicated.

Here’s what contributor Nicole learned in her recent sustainability conversation with Megan Myles.

Leading the Charge for a Sustainable Future

Full subscribers, there’s plenty more for you below, including:

• Original reporting: News that an investment group with several downtown properties is in default on City taxes raises a lot of questions

• A notice from the City about upcoming interim tax bill deadlines

• Details about an Olympian, activist and author’s upcoming visit to Owen Sound

• A report from Year of the Dragon events at Grey Roots

• Good news from a local business owner on a sizeable donation to a children’s charity

• A local potter is featured in a national show

• Local concerts, a gameshow, pancake supper and Valentine’s activities all happening this week

~ Miranda

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