The City of Owen Sound is one of half a dozen communities taking part in an initiative known as the Great Lakes Coastal Cleanup.

The city will be joined by Thunder Bay, Chatham-Kent, Collingwood, Cobourg and Kingston for the Sept. 28 cleanup, which is a project of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative. An $85,000 grant has been received for the initiative from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks through Ontario’s Great Lakes Local Action Fund.

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“Owen Sound is proud to join the first ever Great Lakes Coastal Cleanup. As a Georgian Bay community we know how vital these waters are to our environment and economy,” Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy said in a news release. “This collaborative effort with five other municipalities shows what

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