DURHAM — The Business Advisory Centre Durham (BACD) is offering young Durham residents a free digital skills development program to help unemployed, underemployed and those who are looking to start their own business with social media and digital skills. The program named UpNext DURHAM will run out of BACD’s offices on Garden Street in Whitby…

OSHAWA — Hundreds of high school girls headed over to Bobby Orr Public School on April 26 for the fourth annual “Gowns for Girls” giveaway event. The occasion has become quite an affair on the pre-prom season calendar for senior girls looking for a dress to transform their look on prom night. Const. Joylene MacNeill,…

BOWMANVILLE — Mark Smigielski wheels his 13-year-old son, Ryan, into the living room of the family’s Bowmanville home. The boy’s eyes sparkle and he smiles in response to a greeting. But that is about as much as the Grade 8 student from Holy Family C.E.S. can manage. Ryan was not always confined to a wheelchair.…

BOWMANVILLE, ON — When Colton Sparkes was 18-months old he lost his words.  They came back but in 2013, at three-years of age. When he lost them a second time he was sent for a hearing assessment.  That is when the Bowmanville boy first had contact with Grandview Children’s Centre. Since then Colton, 7,  has…