Troy Shantz Bluewater Health is seeing one-fifth its normal patient caseload and is currently treating just a handful of COVID-19 cases, but it still won’t be resuming normal operations anytime soon. Having the resources are in place in case a second wave of the disease sweeps through Sarnia-Lambton is the hospital’s chief priority, said CEO… Read more »
Cathy Dobson It’s been seven weeks since Kaitlyn Hill decided to make some noise for Sarnia’s front-line workers. “I’m thinking of the nurses at the hospitals, the clerks in the grocery stores — everyone who has to work during the pandemic,” said Hill, a 27-year-old Bright’s Grove resident. Hill heard about the worldwide phenomenon of… Read more »
Tom St. Amand The land wedged between the abandoned Holmes Foundry buildings and Highway 402 is currently being cleared of trees and scrub for future development. But nearly a century ago a street, known as Berkley Row, bisected it. History might have completely bypassed Berkley Row if not for the controversial race riot of March… Read more »
Troy Shantz One Sarnia family’s experience with COVID-19 has come to a bittersweet conclusion. Ella Metcalfe, 88, was discharged from Bluewater Health on Friday after a month-long battle with the novel coronavirus. She was admitted to hospital the same day as her husband. But Gordon Metcalfe’s health continued to decline and he died on April… Read more »
Journal Staff COVID-19 has claimed the life of another Sarnia resident, infected five more people, and spread to a third seniors’ home, Lambton Public Health said this morning. The latest victim was a resident of Sarnia’s Vision Nursing Home, where three more staff members have also been infected. The long-term care home on Wellington Street… Read more »
Journal Staff Sarnia-Lambton has four new cases of COVID-19 this morning, one more death, and a new outbreak at a long-term care home in Sarnia. A resident of Marshall Gowland Manor tested positive for the virus and was placed in isolation as soon as they started experiencing symptoms, said Jane Joris, general manager of Lambton… Read more »
Journal Staff Sarnia-Lambton has eight new cases of COVID-19 today, Lambton Public Health reported this morning. Seven of the eight new cases are at Sarnia’s Vision Nursing Home, where an outbreak of the disease has been ongoing since April 23. Twelve residents of the 146-bed long-term care home have now been infected, up from eight… Read more »
Journal Staff Three new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Sarnia-Lambton, and three additional people have recovered, Lambton Public Health said this morning. Some 203 people have now been confirmed with SARSCoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and 145 have recovered. The dead toll is unchanged at 17, and one senior home continues to… Read more »
Cathy Dobson The Sarnia woman who spearheaded a successful food drive to feed the hungry at the start of the pandemic is now organizing a bottle drive. Like the food drive, bottles donated by the community will support the food bank, soup kitchen and homeless shelter operated by the Inn of the Good Shepherd, Melanie… Read more »
Troy Shantz A Sarnia councillor wants more money spend on roads and the new asphalt laid down equitably across the city. “It became a matter of fairness,” Mike Stark said. “If a person sees a particular street that’s being done in one area of the city the automatic question is, ‘What about my area?’” Council… Read more »
