Community News

Meaford resident Chuck Gouett will begin the fulfillment of a 'Bucket List Journey' from St. John's, Nfld. to Victoria, BC, in early June. He will be shipping his car to St. John's in late May to be ready for the journey when he arrives. Chuck, now 86,was a former member of the RCMP, and he intends to visit his retired colleagues along the way as he crosses Canada. After arriving in Victoria at the end of June he plans to travel...

Submitted By Cameron Halfpenny, Chair, Leadhills Reading Society, Leadhills Miners’ Library, Scotland An air force pilot from Meaford, whose fighter plane crashed in Scotland during WW2, was honoured in the town this week. A propeller blade rescued from Sgt George Stevenson’s Hawker Hurricane was gifted by Leadhills Miners’ Library in Scotland to his family in Ontario, to join a war memorial in the Meaford church he left to go to war in Europe. Sgt Stevenson - known as Geordie - joined...