Troy Shantz A pair of elite Bluewater Gymnastics athletes took the podium and many others won medals and qualified for provincials with a strong showing at the International Gymnix meet. Rachael Riley, 14, Amy Bladon, 17, each earned bronze in their respective categories in Montreal on March 10. Competing as a member of Team Canada… Read more »
Troy Shantz Many a Sarnian driving home at night on that final, lonely stretch of Highway 402 have wondered about the irregular spacing of the five lights illuminating the “Sarnia” sign just east of the airport. The alignment of the lights strikes the eye as odd, so much so it recently touched off a hot… Read more »
Troy Shantz A Sarnia resident is at odds with the city over the cause of a failed seawall at his lakefront property, a potential hint of things to come if Lake Huron continues to rise. Sections of John McNeill’s seawall collapsed last fall, a problem he says is linked to shoreline repairs the city did… Read more »
Journal Staff It’s been a good winter for nature photographer Ronny D’Haene. Readers may remember an image he shared last month of a coyote and bald eagles scrapping over food on the St. Clair River ice. Or a shot he took of a confused row of pigeons, and another of water rolling like quicksilver from… Read more »
Troy Shantz The growing shortage of personal support workers and their difficult working conditions will be discussed at a Town Hall meeting Saturday, officials say. “The word is out. People are leaving the profession of PSW and they’re not enrolling in PSW courses at community colleges,” said Shirley Roebuck, chair of the Sarnia-Lambton Health Coalition…. Read more »
Troy Shantz Emergency funding that helped house the homeless at motels this winter has run out, forcing Sarnia’s two at-capacity homeless shelters to turn people away once again. After the situation became dire last fall, the Erie-St. Clair Local Health Integration Network gave $45,000 in emergency cash to help shelter 100 individuals on 881 nights… Read more »
Phil Egan In the early 1950s, before I started school, I would watch out the window for the coal man. If he delivered anywhere on my street it was fun, and if he came right to our house, it was extra great. Kids from up and down the street would race to the truck to… Read more »
Troy Shantz Opponents have to think twice about fouling Lillian Bernard on the basketball court — she’s one of the best free throwers in the province. For three straight years now the St. Francois Xavier student has finished first in her age group at the Knights of Columbus Regional Free Throw Championship. On March 2,… Read more »
Ice stretches across the surface of Lake Huron as far as the eye can see from this vantage point in Bright’s Grove. About 85% of Huron was ice covered on March 8, compared to 20% on the same date last year and 17% in 2017, according to the Great Lakes Coastal Forecasting System. Glenn Ogilvie
Cathy Dobson Brendan D’Arcy remembers a time when virtually no one played Irish music in Sarnia. How times have changed. “When I first moved here in the ‘70s I met two other Irish musicians, but they lived in Forest,” he said. “John Ross and Ed Bobington became good friends. We met in our living rooms… Read more »
