Our goal is to provide business owners with practical and actionable recommendations and common-sense solutions to propel your business objectives in this intensely competitive retail market.  We want to help you understand critical challenges and emerging opportunities to boost profits and increase your customer base.  We want to help you be better at retail!

At 8:00 a.m., from a makeshift studio in downtown Owen Sound, radio listeners in Grey and Bruce Counties were greeted with ” Good morning, I’m Norman Child and you’re listening to the voice of Grey and Bruce.” Owen Sound had come of age.

CFOS was the vision of Howard Fleming, publisher of the local daily newspaper, the Owen Sound Sun Times. CFOS gave him another method of delivering news, information and entertainment to residents in Grey and Bruce as well as providing local business a new and exciting advertising vehicle.

In 1984 CFOS was sold to Doug Caldwell who established the Bayshore Broadcasting Corporation. Ross Kentner, a member of the CFOS team since 1961was named General Manager.

Bayshore Broadcasting received approval in 1987 for a 100,000 watt FM station. Mix 106 soon became the dominant Radio Station catering to the Adult Contemporary format.

A second building makeover came in 2001 with the addition of Country 93 to the Bayshore Broadcasting family. The new service quickly carved out a large regional audience, an audience starved for their own Country music station.

Bayshore Broadcasting has continued to grow its business and has launched a 3 station brand. 98 the Beach was launched in Port Elgin to serve the Bruce County shoreline. 977 the Beach serves the Collingwood-Wasaga market and 104.9 the Beach serves Goderich and the Huron County Shoreline.

Norm Child had it right in 1940…70 years later Bayshore remains “the voice of Grey and Bruce” plus Wasaga-Collingwood and Huron County.

We offer in-office and in-home service to Grey & Bruce Counties.

• Hearing Tests
• Hearing Aid Recommendations
• Assistive Listening  Devices
• Service and Repairs to all makes & models
• Swim & noise protectors
• Battery Club
• Provider for ADP, VAC,  and WSIB

We offer support to entrepreneurs through the early stages of business development. The Centre’s staff is also there to offer advice as the business grows during those crucial first years. We offer no fee consultations, guidance, support through business training, workshops and much more!

We are one of the largest independently owned insurance organizations in our region, having served Grey and Bruce counties for over 50 years. Our offices are located in Owen Sound, Flesherton, Kincardine, Port Elgin and Wiarton.

We provide our clients with personal and commercial insurance solutions by partnering with many of the top Canadian insurers.

Our firm is registered as a licensed insurance broker with the Registered Insurance Brokers of Ontario (RIBO).

Desjardins Credit Union is part of a family of financial companies under the Desjardins Group, the sixth largest financial institution in Canada with assets of more than $110 billion.  Desjardins group has been serving Canadians’ banking, investing and insurance needs for more than 100 years.  We have the expertise tomeet your financial needs.

Desjardins Credit Union has all the productds and services you expect for a bank but, we are more thsan a bank.  We are a financial co-operative owned by members – the people who save, borrow and invest with us.

An attractive alternative to the traditional banking network.

It’s easy to begin banking with a financial institution that belongs to you.  A $5 membership deposit entitles you to all the benefits of membership.

Important facts about Desjardins Credit Union.

• $1.8 billion in assets
• 70,000 account holders
• 235 employees
• 30 locations

Member Services

• Savings and investments
• Visa Cards
• Internet and telephone banking
• Mortgages
• Loans and Lines of Credit
• RRSPs, RIFs, LIRAs, LIFs
• Great products and even better service

Discover the Desjardins Credit Union Difference.

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Serving the Owen Sound community since 1985, Mane Street Hair Salon has earned a reputation for service and expertise second to none.

Come in and see us … Shannon, Rhonda, Rachel, Candice, Edward, James, or Jeffrey will happy to meet and exceed all of your hairstyling needs.

At Main Street Hair Salon, your satisfaction is our mane concern.”