The SPCA was given enough food for more than a million pets — but there’s nowhere to store it/news/the-spca-was-given-enough-food-for-more-than-a-million-pets-but-theres-nowhere/article_32b7b260-b36e-5822-8954-5671fbe1cfc3.html?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign&utm_content=ap_0vfghzvi6d
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Side hustle: How a Hamilton teen made $10,000 in a month cleaning BBQs
Jacob Shaidle, an 18-year-old entrepreneur from Ancaster operates a barbecue cleaning business. In one month this summer, he made $10,000. Shaidle says he’s working to pay his own way through his engineering program at the University of British Columbia.
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Tiny Home Show in Ancaster draws a crowd
In its second year, the event featured more than 20 tiny home models, with information on sustainable living and increasing housing density through secondary dwelling units.
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“It felt like it was another Woodstock in our own city."
It’s hard to believe it happened at all: that Pink Floyd, one of the most famous bands in the world, legendary for its live show featuring cutting-edge surround sound and special effects, played outdoors to an audience of 52,000 on June 28, 1975 at Ivor Wynne Stadium.
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Hamilton police are investigating after two people were shot and killed in Stoney Creek Saturday evening in what investigators are describing as a “landlord-tenant dispute.”
Speaking to reporters Sunday morning, Det. Sgt. Steve Bereziuk said officers responded to reports of a shooting at 322 Jones Rd., just north of Barton Street at around 5:40 p.m. Saturday.
Bereziuk said officers arriving at the scene found two people fatally shot outside of the two-storey residence, nestled between Barton and Cornell Avenue.
✍ By Fallon Hewitt, Spectator Reporter
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—He told his children he was coming to save them. He never made it. ‘I know they were scared to death’
Trevor McIsaac screamed for his kids.
“We’re here,” they cried from across the hall. Their mother was silent.
“I told them to get down and try to get your mom up; that I was coming to get them,” he said. “I know they were scared to death.”
The two-storey house on Hamilton’s east Mountain was ablaze. The heat was unbearable. Smoke was everywhere.
Trevor McIsaac’s children, their mother and a roommate died during a Hamilton townhouse fire he managed to escape. He tells The Spectator about those final moments and his family’s struggles.
✍ By Kate McCullough, Spectator Reporter
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At a central Hamilton elementary school, just under three per cent of Grade 6 students met the provincial standard in math on the most recent standardized test.
That means out of 38 kids in the class who wrote the test, just one made the mark.
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—One in 38 students in Grade 6 meet math mark at Cathy Wever
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✍ Kate McCullough, Spectator Reporter
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A section of the failing Claremont Access retaining wall has collapsed, causing rock and debris to tumble down the face of the escarpment.
This is what the city feared when it temporarily closed the downbound lanes of the Claremont Access in early March after a new “high-risk” bulge in the wall appeared.
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—Claremont Access retaining wall collapses
Kate McCullough reporting
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She can buy herself flowers. But will she?
Moms everywhere buy flowers on a daily basis, gifted flowers mean just a little more.
How do you show someone how much they mean to you, not just every day but on Mother’s Day?
We’ve come up with a survey for moms everywhere in hopes to find the magic answer to the question everyone is asking this week.
What do you want for Mother’s Day?
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If watching an egg sizzle as it hits a flat-top griddle is your favourite morning pastime, you might already have a go-to Hamilton-area breakfast spot or two. Though, there are so many out there, it is hard to pick.
Here are eight local diners to grease your spoon.
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—These Hamilton-area bacon and egg spots are flipping great
By Jeremy Kemeny, The Hamilton Spectator
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Every weekend, Gore Park transforms into an open-air, one-stop grocer.
There’s your food corner with hot, ready-made meals like rice, beans, potatoes and meat loaf, all packed to go in portable containers; a deli with wrapped sandwiches; produce and dairy sections with fruits and veggies, yogurt and milk; a snack corridor with crackers, cereals, granola bars, Pop Tarts and chocolates; and a miscellaneous aisle with toiletries, dog treats and the like.
Jeffrey Ng and about 100 volunteers spend their weekdays picking up donations and cooking meals ahead of each Saturday afternoon, when they host people in need at the downtown park.
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—He used to have a corporate job. Now, he helps give free food to hundreds of Hamiltonians every weekend
✍ Story by Sebastian Bron, Spectator Reporter
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