Readers across the Great Lakes states and Canada this year will participate in a basin-wide book club hosted by the Library of the Great Lakes.
From now until September 2025 participants will read Michigan author Sally Cole-Misch’s The Best Part of Us and Ontario author Joanne Robertson’s children’s book, The Water Walker.
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The St. Thomas-Elgin Children’s Water Festival returned to Pinafore Park in St. Thomas on Thursday. Read the full story
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But determining what prevention and cleanup practices are most effective remains difficult.
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