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Coinciding with the first day of summer, June 21, the Longest Day of PLAY is a community-based campaign to encourage Grey Bruce residents to get more active. Visit the PLAY in Bruce Grey website at www.playbrucegrey.com for activity suggestions and events in your community. PLAY in Bruce Grey aims to get residents more physically active through regular play.

The Grey Bruce Roots of Empathy program celebrated a dozen one-year-olds for their part in teaching some very important life lessons to nearly 400 students from across Grey Bruce over the past school year.

A STOP workshop will be held in Owen Sound on Monday, June 25. The Grey Bruce Health Unit is partnering with the STOP Program to offer this local workshop. The STOP (Smoking Treatment for Ontario Patients) Program workshop offers eligible participants in Grey and Bruce Counties five weeks of cost-free nicotine replacement therapy and smoking cessation information to help them in their quit attempt.

The Grey Bruce Health Unit is seeking assistance from the public in finding the owner of a dog involved in a biting incident that occurred on the Bruce Trail, south of the Little Cove parking lot area on June 10, 2018, at approximately 12:00 noon.

The 16th annual Turn Off The Screens challenge is now complete. During the week-long challenge, running April 30 – May 6, students were encouraged to be more active by turning off the television, video games and computers and playing outside. Many students accumulated more than 30 hours of physical activity during the week while others managed to remain screen-free the entire time.