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 »
Kristen Rodrigues The Journal published two stories last week about Sarnia council eyeing a major investment to save the Bright’s Grove shoreline from Lake Huron’s encroachment. I have read a lot of stories lately regarding taxpayer money being spent to make regular emergency repairs on the city’s lakeshore properties. These stories get more and more… Read more »
Marg Johnson One of the rules of parenting you don’t actually learn until you ARE a parent goes like this: What works for one of your children will not likely work for the other. This is in spite of those wonderful books that began with Dr. Spock and have continued ever since; the ones that… Read more »
Housing Minister says level of homeless funding hasn’t changed Sir: I want to address concerns raised in “Sarnia’s growing homeless population faces a bleak winter ahead” published in the Sarnia Journal on October 22, 2019. Statements made in the article suggest that there will be a decline in available homelessness services due to funding provided… Read more »
It was a time of peace, growth and prosperity; but also one of rumour, fear and paranoia. And they combined to produce one of the most frightening incidents in Sarnia’s history. The era before the ‘Cold War’ had had its own moniker– the ‘Red Scare.’ From the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, communists, known as… Read more »
Phil Egan As an old travel and tourism guy who spent 39 years in the industry I was attracted to an item contained in the recently opened time capsules from Sarnia General Hospital. It was a 36-page Sarnia tourism brochure about 8.5 by 5.5 inches in size. Though undated, the contents suggest it was printed… Read more »
Wonderful people on both sides got me through bridge calamity Sir: On Oct. 21, I had an appointment in the U.S. and was returning via the Blue Water Bridge to Sarnia. I live 45 minutes from Sarnia, and my Chevy van had acted up when I started to drive, so while in the U.S. I… Read more »
Bob Boulton I’ll wager two cups of coffee that if this is Halloween night then it’s raining. And despite my repeated endorsement of the Mediterranean paleo high-veg low-carb diet, I will eat way more candy than is good for me. On Halloween night we’re surrounded by the smoky breath of demons, black cats yowling, and… Read more »
Several hundred people recently gathered in the central atrium of Bluewater Health to witness the opening of a series of time capsules that were embedded in the brickwork of the recently levelled Sarnia General Hospital. That included a time capsule from the original hospital in 1895, and another from a new wing added in 1929…. Read more »
