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• Fun reigns at Petrolia Easter egg hunt

  18-04-2025 21:21 via theobserver.ca
  
  The rain held off Friday for the 37th Petrolia and District Lions Easter egg hunt. Members of the service club prepared for a typical crowd of about 350 youngsters and families at the Lions Hall in Greenwood Park. The park next to the hall was sectioned off with yellow caution tape to mark egg-hunting grounds for age groups, up to eight years old. As in past years, the youngest group of hunters gathered with families inside the hall, where they shared space this year with a federal election adv
  
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• Pathways open house planned as part of 50th anniversary celebrations

  04-05-2025 18:32 via theobserver.ca
  
  He didn’t realize it at the time, but Pathways Health Centre for Children had a profound impact on Kurtis Lush as a child. The incoming president of the Sarnia Rotary Club and process operator at CF Industries said he spent ages three to five with speech pathologists at the now 50-year-old agency that helps youngsters with physical, developmental and communication needs. He knows from what others have told him that he murmured as a child and was difficult to understand, he said. Now, he&r
  
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• Kinsmen craft show held to benefit Baxter Park in Sarnia - The Sarnia Observer

  03-05-2025 23:09 via news.google.com
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• Kinsmen craft show held to benefit Baxter Park in Sarnia

  03-05-2025 23:05 via theobserver.ca
  
  It was cool, but calm weather Saturday as dozens of makers set up in Baxter Park for an annual arts and crafts show in support of the Sarnia Kinsmen Club. That’s an improvement over 2024, when bad weather scuttled part of the club’s annual Spring into Summer event, said Pat MacGregor, one of the organizers. Typically up to 2,000 attend the showcase that last year raised $5,600 towards funding Baxter Park improvements, like additional pickleball courts and signs, she said. “Eve
  
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• UPDATE: Sarnia police locate missing man - cknxnewstoday.ca

  03-05-2025 02:56 via news.google.com
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• Sarnia police seek armed robbery suspect - sarnianewstoday.ca

  03-05-2025 00:55 via news.google.com
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• Trucker gets 10 years in prison for smuggling cocaine into Sarnia - The Sarnia Observer

  02-05-2025 22:27 via news.google.com
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• Trucker gets 10 years in prison for smuggling cocaine into Sarnia

  02-05-2025 22:23 via theobserver.ca
  
  A Toronto truck driver was sentenced this week in Sarnia to 10 years in prison for trying to smuggle 100 bricks of cocaine worth up to $10 million into Canada over the Blue Water Bridge. While imposing the decade-long sentence on Nick Shah, 65, Justice Mark Poland said he hopes it sends a message to other like-minded people. “By the time you dig yourself out of this sentence, Mr. Shah, the very best of your last days here on Earth will have passed you by and your life, your health and you
  
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• Sarnia police seek missing man - sarnianewstoday.ca

  02-05-2025 22:19 via news.google.com
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• Funeral set for Walpole Island boy, 6, who died in Sombra crash

  02-05-2025 22:16 via theobserver.ca
  
  Memorial services will be held Sunday and Monday for the six-year-old boy from Walpole Island who died in a single-vehicle crash in Sombra. Tyrus (Boot) Daniel, 6, died Wednesday, according to his obituary. “With the heaviest of hearts, we say goodbye to our dear Tyrus Jaxon-Rayvon Marquez Daniel whose sun set on April 30, 2025 at the tender age of six,” his obituary says. Cherished by his parents and one among seven siblings, Daniel will be missed by many family members and friends
  
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• Third planned pause to urgent general surgeries hopefully the last: Bluewater Health - The Sarnia Observer

  02-05-2025 20:44 via news.google.com
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• Third planned pause to urgent general surgeries hopefully the last: Bluewater Health

  02-05-2025 20:40 via theobserver.ca
  
  Bluewater Health is pausing some emergency and urgent surgeries in Sarnia again, amid a general surgeon shortage. People attending May 5 to 9 with urgent general surgery concerns such as appendicitis or a bowel blockage may need to be transferred to another nearby hospital for treatment, officials said in a news release Friday. Similar pauses happened in February and in late December to early January, after three of Bluewater Health’s five general surgeons left for other jobs or retired i
  
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• Age-Friendly Expo to help connect Sarnia-area residents to wellness - The Sarnia Observer

  02-05-2025 19:53 via news.google.com
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• Age-Friendly Expo to help connect Sarnia-area residents to wellness

  02-05-2025 19:52 via theobserver.ca
  
  Opportunities to connect with wellness and the community will fill the Point Edward Arena to overflowing Wednesday at this year’s Sarnia-Lambton Age-Friendly Expo. It will be the fourth year for the event by Lambton Elderly Outreach and the Sarnia-Lambton Ontario Health Team with 106 organizations exhibiting in the arena and community hall next to it, said Amy Weiler, one of the organizers. “For 2025 our theme is Explore the Path to Wellness” and the exhibitors will be “
  
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• Dragons and a new community theatre season land at Sarnia's Imperial Theatre - The Sarnia Observer

  02-05-2025 18:49 via news.google.com
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• Dragons and a new community theatre season land at Sarnia's Imperial Theatre

  02-05-2025 18:43 via theobserver.ca
  
  A truckload of dragons arrives next week in Sarnia’s downtown. Dragons and Mythical Beasts, a family-friendly touring show that originated in Britain, will be staged Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., at Sarnia’s Imperial Theatre. “Last year, we did a show called Dinosaur World, and it’s the same company,” said theatre executive director Brian Austin Jr. “They bring through these massive articulated puppets that look real,” he said. “I know how they work, and
  
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• Sarnia transit workers ratify three-year deal - The Sarnia Observer

  02-05-2025 17:50 via news.google.com
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• Sarnia transit workers ratify three-year deal

  02-05-2025 17:45 via theobserver.ca
  
  Sarnia’s transit workers have a new three-year deal. The City of Sarnia and Unifor Local 914, representing 51 Sarnia Transit staff recently ratified a three-year agreement with 3.1 per cent wage increases in 2025 and 2026, and a 3.2 per cent increase in 2027. The deal also includes $500 in mental health coverage per year, increased from $200 per year, said Sarnia human resources manager Tammy Broer. “I think we ended up with a deal that was fair,” she said, calling it reflecti
  
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• Local roundup: Pacers lose; Konecny on Team Canada; Vikings, Irish runners win - The Sarnia Observer

  02-05-2025 14:22 via news.google.com
  Local roundup: Pacers lose; Konecny on Team Canada; Vikings, Irish runners win  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Sarnia police search for missing woman - windsornewstoday.ca

  02-05-2025 03:02 via news.google.com
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• UPDATE: Missing Sarnia woman located - cknewstoday.ca

  02-05-2025 00:52 via news.google.com
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• Sarnia man receives Empowered Kids Ontario award - The Sarnia Observer

  02-05-2025 00:15 via news.google.com
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• Sarnia man receives Empowered Kids Ontario award

  02-05-2025 00:10 via theobserver.ca
  For Sarnia’s Dave Schaller, helping youngsters with disabilities stay active means doing so with them as part of the broader community. “I really believe our community is stronger when everyone belongs,” said the power lifter, recently retired recreation specialist with Pathways Health Centre for Children, and now, an Empowered Kids Ontario (EKO) service tribute award recipient. Schaller, who recently was honoured with the award for his work through Pathways – helping to
  
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• Lambton Film and Food Festival set to return to Forest this month

  01-05-2025 23:00 via theobserver.ca
  The 12th Lambton Film and Food Festival in Forest will be celebrated Saturday with a sold-out gala, ahead of the festival screenings and special events running May 22 to 25 at the Kineto Theatre and on King Street downtown. Along with screenings of award-winning films during three days later this month, this year’s festival includes a “street fiesta,” and other events on King Street, which will be closed to traffic Friday to Sunday morning. “Each year we’ve been tr
  
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• Canadian symbolism in local artifacts up for discussion at next Heritage Hour lecture - The Sarnia Observer

  01-05-2025 21:22 via news.google.com
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• Canadian symbolism in local artifacts up for discussion at next Heritage Hour lecture

  01-05-2025 21:20 via theobserver.ca
  Sarnia-Lambton museums are delving into Canadian symbolism among local artifacts as part of the next Heritage Hour virtual talk. The latest in the five-year-old series that’s included talks about shipwrecks, crime, recreation, and war, among other subjects and how they relate to local museum collections, is responding to the current climate of nationalism, in response to annexation threats from U.S. President Donald Trump, said Lambton Heritage Museum curator and supervisor Dana Thorne. &
  
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• Lambton Shores set to keep hotel tax income close to home

  01-05-2025 21:00 via theobserver.ca
  Lambton Shores is taking steps to set up a non-profit tourism marketing agency to spend half of the proceeds of an accommodation tax overnight visitors to the Lambton County municipality could begin paying in January 2026. Point Edward and Sarnia have a four per cent municipal accommodation tax added to hotel and other short-term lodging bills with proceeds split between the municipalities and Tourism Sarnia-Lambton, a county-funded tourism marketing agency. Lambton Shores, which includes the L
  
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• The holders of the last three per cent in the Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong election - Petrolia Lambton Independent

  01-05-2025 19:47 via news.google.com
  The holders of the last three per cent in the Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong election  Petrolia Lambton Independent
  
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• Public alerted of potential measles exposure Monday at Petrolia ER

  01-05-2025 18:30 via theobserver.ca
  Lambton Public Health issued an alert of a potential measles exposure Monday at the hospital emergency department in Petrolia. Possible exposure times at the Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital of Bluewater Health ER on Blanche Street were from 2 a.m. to 5:20 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. on April 18, the health unit said. People who may have been exposed should contact Lambton Public Health at 519-383-8331 if they have a severely weakened immune system or are pregnant and not protected aga
  
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• Man arrested following sexual assault in downtown Sarnia: police - The Sarnia Observer

  01-05-2025 18:08 via news.google.com
  Man arrested following sexual assault in downtown Sarnia: police  The Sarnia Observer
  
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