Community initiative helps children overseas
Edna McAvoy, left, and Robin Potter at the Oshawa Senior Citizens Centre share a laugh as they work to transform hundreds of milk bags into sleeping mats for people in [...]
COMMUNITY
Trio splits lottery winnings
Oshawa’s Augusto Eiras, left, is sharing a $2.5 million jackpot with his Whitby friends John Meikle and Augusto Sbarzella. An Oshawa man has a nicer looking chequing [...]
“She was frightened of being abandoned”
Eva Saether sits with a picture of her mother, Emily Ann Mulder at ExtendiCare in Oshawa. By Joel Wittnebel/The Oshawa Express A local family has been left scrambling to find [...]
Recognizing a deadly disease
Durham’s health department is raising awareness for World Tuberculosis Day. The disease killed 1.5 million in 2013. The region’s health department recognized World [...]
Fire department adds EpiPens to rescue arsenal
Oshawa firefighters Josh Doyle and Greg Petrie hold the EpiPens that all frontline response vehicles will be carrying By Joel Wittnebel/The Oshawa Express Oshawa Fire [...]
Public art to be inventoried, mapped under new policy
As part of the new public art policy all of Oshawa’s public art will be inventoried and mapped, including this Clement Meadmore piece, titled Upstart II, outside of [...]
The gift of a better life
Sue Mason, patient care manager at ambulatory hemodialysis, and Bob Baker, CEO of the Lakeridge Foundation, stand with one of the 87 kidney dialysis machines to be purchased [...]
Scrubbed down and suited up
Chris Scott, left, a nurse from Peterborough Health Centre, sprays down Robert McDougall, a physician assistant from Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay, during an emergency [...]
Another chance to learn abroad
Şenay Yalçın, left, president of Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, shakes hands with Tim McTiernan, president of UOIT. The two schools have signed an exchange [...]