Lord knows, I’m no scientist. While I loved history, English and other languages at school, physics, chemistry and science weren’t for me. But I know something revolutionary when I see it – especially when it’s something the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is pouring money into. An international company called Butterfly Network has found a… Read more »
Troy Shantz Bob Barnes says the best way to make someone an atheist is to let them read the Bible. “Where did the Bible come from? Most people don’t know, they haven’t got a clue,” said the organizer of Bluewater Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics (BAHA). “And most people never read the Bible. I know the… Read more »
The Northern Collegiate senior girl’s AAA basketball team. back: Coach John Thraser, Coach Mark Woodhouse, Emma Cowan, Hannah Elliott, Jamilah Dent, Fiona Elliott, Laneigh Shirley, Coach Kendel Ross, and Coach Andrew Westlake; front row: Jessica Milne, Rebecca King, Emma Wells, Cassidy Hirtle, Claire Arthurs and Lauren Harding. Bruce Smith, Special to The Journal
Darius Canty goes up for two points against St. Clair College in a Lambton Lions home game on Nov. 5. Canty was the team’s top shooter with 20 points, but it wasn’t enough as the Lions lost 91-85 to fall to 3-3 on the season. The Sarnia campus and its 1,200-seat athletic complex are preparing… Read more »
1 – Alphabetically, what is the last of Canada’s three territories? 2 – John Leaver, former owner of what family-run stationery store, scored the winning goal when Point Edward won the 1957-58 provincial juvenile hockey championship? 3 – Which is hotter: lightning or lava? 4 – Sarnia-Lambton Rebound recently celebrated its a) 25th,… Read more »
Troy Shantz If he could, the late Tom Wright would have played lacrosse “seven days a week, 365 days a year,” a long-time friend says. The Sarnia man who played and coached for more than 50 years died on Oct. 29, after impacting thousands in the sport to which he dedicated his life. Wright was… Read more »
Troy Shantz You don’t need to look beyond the city limits of Sarnia to find great original music. So says Harold Collins, a Sarnia musician who’s packed the halls of Theatre 42 with dozens of bands over the past year for a homegrown concert series, Sarnia Indie Nights. “These bands are really good. The bands… Read more »
Troy Shantz A Cuban national who risked his life by entering Canada illegally through the St. Clair Tunnel two years ago remains in legal limbo. Miguel Padron, 59, was living in Detroit when he decided to leave his rented home, a job and all his possessions to slip across the border from Port Huron, Michigan… Read more »
Excluding hymn disrespectful to soldiers, past and present Sir: My wife and I recently returned from a trip to Europe that included a visit to a Canadian War cemetery located near Holten, The Netherlands. The beauty of the cemetery, in terms of how well it was maintained, reflected the respect and thankfulness the Dutch… Read more »
Five years ago, retired high school teacher Tom Slater joined the ranks of Sarnia’s pre-eminent historians, joining Charlotte Vidal Nisbet, Norman Gurd, George Smith and others whose work has enriched our knowledge of the community’s past. He did so with the “completion” of his brilliant War Remembrance Project. Three years in the researching and writing,… Read more »
