Phil Egan & Barb Swanson In the cold, overnight hours of April 14-15 in the year 1912, James McCrie of Sarnia was dying of hypothermia. He was one of the 1,500-plus passengers and crew who perished when the massive ocean liner RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic. What McCrie might have noted with dimming… Read more »
MP Gladu clarifies position on conversion therapy bill Sir: There has been a lot of misinformation circulating regarding the conversion therapy bill, Bill C-6. Let me be clear: I am strongly opposed to conversion therapy, as is every single person who has contacted my office. That is not the problem with this Bill. The issue… Read more »
Marg Johnson In so many ways, the Lambton County that I know now as a retired person is not so very different from the Lambton County that formed me. Back then, Arthur Street in Point Edward was a sheltered place. Our story-and-a-half home was the base for many neighbourhood games of hide & seek, kick-the-can… Read more »
Bob Boulton Some days, I wonder if what I learned at school had much value. I still struggle with long division. Then I remember Mr. Davis. Before they replaced Johnson Memorial, my old school, Mr. Davis was our crossing guard at Russell near Talfourd. My world then was in apple-pie order. My mother walked me… Read more »
Reader saddened to see another woodlot targetted Sir: While curiously reading the Nov. 26 article entitled “Point Spread,” I was disappointed and saddened to see yet another stand of trees is falling victim to development. The Venetian Boulevard woodlot is home to the Butler’s garter snake – an endangered species in Ontario – and many… Read more »
For me, the letdown was like ordering a bestselling book and getting just the first chapter in the mail. A good start, but nothing close to what I wanted. Local mental health workers probably felt the same after the Ontario government announced last week Sarnia is getting a temporary, 12-bed residential facility for residents to… Read more »
Tom St. Amand The area of north Sarnia today, home to Tyrie Drive, looked vastly different in the 1940s, says Illa Bullock, 85. “It was just a large grassy field then, dotted with some oak trees, and at the east end near what is now St. Giles Church property were large bushes,” she recalled. “And… Read more »
Marg Johnson Christmas can mean different things. It can be the worst day of the year, full of gift disappointment, unfulfilled dreams, loneliness, anger, sibling rivalry, and any combination of the above. Or it can be a day filled with such joy and amazement you can’t hold it all. When I was a child,… Read more »
Carrier’s kind act will help widower get through Christmas Sir: On Oct. 17 I lost my wife to COPD after a long battle. We loved to sit together on our front porch and watch people going by, and one of the things we enjoyed was a grandfather and his granddaughter delivering the Sarnia Journal. They… Read more »
Knock knock. “Why, hello Jimmy.” “Hi, Mr. Jackson. Here’s your OxyContin. Mrs. Jackson’s Percodan is in the bag too.” Though hard to imagine such a scene today, boys all over Sarnia delivered prescription medications for drug stores when the 1960s began. We did it after school, on our bikes. My buddy Doug Dunn and I… Read more »
