Troy Shantz You can find Sarnia’s very own ‘Phrag Fighter’ each week at the Point Lands, hoe in hand. For the past two years Hal Regnier has made it his one-man mission to protect one beautiful piece of city parkland from phragmites, a choking reed so aggressive it’s regarded as Canada’s worst invasive species. And… Read more »
Cathy Dobson If you’re a fan of jazz or big band you may have heard from Paddy Roach recently. Roach is The Sarnia Community Foundation’s (SCF) special events chairman. Each year at this time he personally calls about 400 known music lovers and sells tickets the old-fashioned way. “We find it works very well to… Read more »
Troy Shantz It’s a new position and a new chapter for Kennedy Dietz. The 17-year-old Sarnia fastball prospect is headed to Shawnee State University in 2020 after verbally committing to play at the Ohio school. Her play on the field earned the Northern Collegiate student an 85% scholarship. “Everything is coming full circle… all these… Read more »
Cathy Dobson In the early days when she operated Kind Décor out of her home, Janet Hofstra frequently noticed customers admiring how she furnished and decorated her own house. At the time, she was refinishing furniture and selling it online. “When people came for pick up, most said they liked my furniture and the things… Read more »
An Ontario Provincial Police marine unit ferries a convoy of Port Huron Float Down participants back to Michigan after winds blew them off course to Sarnia’s shore on Aug. 19. Despite warnings from officials, thousands of Americans and Canadians took to the St. Clair River for the unsanctioned annual event. No injuries were reported, but… Read more »
Tara Jeffrey After 12 years of silence, the bell at Sarnia’s St. Joseph’s church is ringing again. “We thought we’d never see it back up,” parishioner Laura Hardy said of the historic Bell, which rang for the first time on Christmas Eve in 1928. The Knights of Columbus Sarnia Council purchased it that year for… Read more »
A guinea pig at the Canatara Park children’s animal farm eats cautiously while a cat snoozes in its enclosure on Aug. 13. Soon, several other guinea pigs sharing the same pen ventured out of their burroughs to go about their business, unbeknownst to Charlie, the cat who continued to sleep. Troy Shantz
Nadine Wark Music and summer just seem to go together. Just as today’s generation will retain music from the summer of 2019, the older crowd can look back and relate to the music of other times and places. I remember the dancers on the TV show American Bandstand having strict criteria for a hit… Read more »
Hassan Hussein, a worker aboard the freighter Algonorth, uses a roller to apply a fresh coat of paint to the ship’s hull. The 374-foot (144-metre) crude oil tanker was moored at the Sydney Smith Wharf for maintenance last month. Troy Shantz.
Phil Egan Seventy-seven years ago this week 4,963 courageous Canadians probed Hitler’s “Fortress of Europe” in a raid that presaged the massive assault on Normandy to come in 1944. It happened on Aug. 19, 1942 and was known as the Dieppe Raid. Among the Canadians troops that sailed from Sussex, England to France on the… Read more »
