Nicole Hancock
Indigenous community hosts full moon ceremony ...

Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.

Indigenous community hosts full moon ceremony to heal Chedoke Creek

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Residents torn on proposed water system for Stanhope peninsula

Residents torn on proposed water system for Stanhope peninsula

Stanhope residents are split on the rural municipality of North Shore's plan to replace its aging, individualized water system with a well field for the Stanhope peninsula. Local council and about 80 residents met Tuesday evening at the North Shore Community Centre for a public meeting about replacing the current system — consisting of hundreds of private freshwater wells — with one that would have roughly 20 kilometres of piping throughout the peninsula, with water drawn from a well-field site to be constructed nearby.

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