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• Waste not, want not: Surplus Rotaryfest food finds home with Harvest Algoma

  21-07-2026 22:43 via saultstar.com
  
  Grub did not wind up in the garbage as the “significant” amount of surplus food from this year’s Rotaryfest found a home at Harvest Algoma. The Rotary food court, officials say, was one of the festival areas most impacted by the elevated wildfire smoke levels across the region, resulting in fewer sales and a “large amount” of unsold food and an approaching Sunday grounds take-down deadline. Food court co-chair David Saunders gathered Rotarians and volunteers Sunday
  
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• Victim punched and kicked, police allege

  21-07-2026 20:48 via saultstar.com
  
  Police laid charges Saturday in connection with an April incident that allegedly saw a person kicked and punched. Around 6 p.m. on April 10, police received a report of an assault at a unit within a multi-unit residential building in the 100 block of Allard Street.Officers say the accused — along with two others who were arrested and charged on April 11— knocked on the victim’s door, forced their way inside and assaulted the victim by punching and kicking them.The victim susta
  
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• When help means losing choice: The reality of rural mental health care

  21-07-2026 20:03 via saultstar.com
  
  Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare ’s two cottage-country hospitals are not built for mental health care. Yet hundreds of people come to them every year in need of it. And the hospitals’ emergency departments must somehow meet that need.Partly as a result, about 99 per cent of the psychiatric admissions at these two hospitals in 2024-25 were involuntary: 291 out of 295.Many of Ontario’s smaller or rural hospitals are in similar straits. They may not have psychiatrists or psychiatric
  
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• High hopes for data-driven program to help stem youth substance use

  21-07-2026 18:52 via saultstar.com
  
  Proponents hail it an effective way to nip a profound problem plaguing Algoma District directly in the bud.Over the coming months, regional youth will be part of a community-wide prevention program geared to stem substance use and improve health outcomes.Algoma Public Health , along with several regional groups, have launched Planet Youth , based on the Icelandic Prevention Model (IPM), an evidence-based approach that “successfully” reduced youth substance use in Iceland and has sin
  
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• Data-driven program to stem district's dire youth substance use problem kicks off

  21-07-2026 18:52 via saultstar.com
  
  Proponents hail it an effective way to nip a profound problem plaguing Algoma District directly in the bud.Over the coming months, regional youth will be part of a community-wide prevention program geared to stem substance use and improve health outcomes.Algoma Public Health , along with several regional groups, have launched Planet Youth , based on the Icelandic Prevention Model (IPM), an evidence-based approach that “successfully” reduced youth substance use in Iceland and has sin
  
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• Marshall oversees Community Night parade in 1926: IN OTHER YEARS

  21-07-2026 06:01 via saultstar.com
  
  July 21, 2001Nearly 1,100 men have sought help from Ken Brown Recovery Home since its opening in October 1976. July 21, 1976The Viking I robot spacecraft on Mars has detected nitrogen and argon gases in the atmosphere of the Red Planet in significant abundance to make scientists more optimistic that life might flourish there, the project’s directors said today. Instructor Jill Grant showed Jennifer Stephen, 3, Timothy Kearns, 5, and Kelly Harrison, 3, how to colour on opening day of the S
  
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