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Glasgow Times
11-06-2025
- Business
- Glasgow Times
Lanark pupils' designs shortlisted for Royal Highland Show
Pupils from Bent Primary, Robert Owen Memorial Primary, and Lanark Grammar have been shortlisted for the Royal Highland Show's school competition, which launched last month. The contest, part of Scotland's largest outdoor and agricultural event, aims to highlight the Show's 2025 theme of Education and Learning and RHET's Year of Dairy. Schools across the country were invited to participate in the competition categories based on participants' level of schooling. Primary pupils were asked to design unique rosettes, with the winning entry set to be produced by Hazelden Rosettes and presented to the Dairy Champion from each section of the dairy classes at the Royal Highland Show. Read more: Award-winning restaurant takes centre stage in free Glasgow tour Amy Marshall from Robert Owen Memorial Primary's rosette was shortlisted in the primary school category (Image: Supplied) Meanwhile, secondary school pupils from S1-S4 were challenged to create milk bottle brand designs. The best milk bottle brand design will be printed on a one-litre glass bottle by Seaways Services (UK) Ltd and exhibited at the 2025 Scottish Milk Championships during the show. Out of the 32 rosette designs and 47 milk bottle designs submitted, three entries from Lanark made it into the top ten entries, which will be showcased during the four-day event. Aimee Doig, from Bent Primary, and Amy Marshall, from Robert Owen Memorial Primary, were selected for their unique rosettes, while Alan Marshal,l from Lanark Grammar High School, stood out with his interesting milk bottle design. Read more: Glasgow business founder shortlisted for 'Grammys of entrepreneurship' Alan Marshall from Lanark Grammar High School's milk bottle design was shortlisted in the secondary school category (Image: Supplied) David Tennant, head of the Royal Highland Show, said: "There are some truly talented pupils in Scotland. "We have been so impressed by the entries we have received, from the bright colours used to detailed responses pupils have written up about their designs. "The chosen shortlisted designs really stood out from the crowd, and we hope the pupil artists who designed them can take great pride in knowing that their work will feature at this year's show, playing a part in a historically significant event for the agricultural and rural sector." Overall winners for both categories are set to be announced next week, the week of the show. The Royal Highland Show will run from June 19 to June 22 at the Royal Highland Centre in Ingliston, Edinburgh. Winning pupils from each category will be awarded commemorative keepsakes of their designs, as well as free tickets for family and friends to attend the show on June 22. Free entry to the event is granted for children aged 15 and under.
CTV News
15-05-2025
- Health
- CTV News
HART Hub expected to launch in Barrie by July
It will be two months until the Ford government's newest way to help those battling addictions will fully be operational within Barrie. On Wednesday, city council received an update from the County of Simcoe, detailing its homelessness strategies to date, including what stage the Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) hub will be ready in the city. The County was approved to set up a HART hub in Barrie this past winter, alongside 26 other locations across the province. The hubs will also replace outgoing consumption and treatment service sites scattered across cities in Ontario. On Wednesday, the County told city council it was making major progress towards finally opening the services to the region's most vulnerable. The County said it is currently in what it calls a 'soft launch' phase of a four-phase process with the new treatment option. 'We're scheduling some wellness clinics between May and June to get out there in the community, meet folks who may be eligible for heart hub services, and get started right away with some specific services,' said Amy Marshall, Community Support and Wellbeing director at the County of Simcoe. 'Not the full launch, but some services that are more available immediately.' The County said the hub would include a wide range of mental health and addictions services, including treatment, recovery, supportive housing, primary healthcare and social and human services. The HART hub will also work in tandem with existing services throughout the county, to look at expanding the services throughout the region. 'That integrated approach is really what's going to be useful for folks,' Marshall added. The county also updated city council on other measures it is taking to tackle homelessness in the city, including the controversial clearing of an encampment at Berczy Park last summer. According to the county, since crews moved in to help offer support, 75 per cent of those living in the encampment have now transitioned into permanent housing. 'Of those who are in and out of shelter, they're still being supported with our traditional supports,' said Mina Fayez-Bahgat, the County's Social and Community Services Manager. 'it's a very good pilot of what a 'Streets to Homes' model looks like, where you take someone literally from outside, consistently work with them to ultimately result in housing, permanent housing.' Councillor Jim Harris asked how the County's work on tackling homelessness relates to ongoing affordable housing projects, such as on Rose Street. Fayez-Bahgat told council that while the two are not directly tied together, supportive housing can provide an avenue for those going through the HART hub system to find housing that's more appropriate to their needs. 'The idea is by creating net new housing, you can start to move around your properties to create openings so that you can dedicate it for more specific health-based service,' he said. 'We knew that we need to end homelessness using these units, but we want to do it in a strategic way that allows people to come with supports – we create it through the creation of more housing.' The County said its next steps are to look at creating more transitional and supportive units, such as modular rapid-rehousing programs that it has currently set up across the region. Over the next decade, it will look to create at least 1000 affordable county-owned units across Simcoe County, as part of its affordable housing master plan.
