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• Passed-out pair charged after Sarnia police seize fentanyl and cash

  11-04-2025 19:12 via theobserver.ca
  
  Two men were arrested and charged with trafficking after officers found 17 grams of fentanyl and nearly $12,000 in cash after waking up a pair of people in a suspicious vehicle, Sarnia police say. Officers were called around 10 a.m. Wednesday about the vehicle, a silver van with two men slumped over inside, in a parking lot on London Road east of Murphy Road, Sarnia police said Friday. It took several attempts to get them to wake up and speak with police. When they did become alert, officers le
  
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• Teen charged in grocery store assault

  14-05-2025 23:59 via theobserver.ca
  
  A 15-year-old girl is charged after a woman was assaulted at a Sarnia grocery store Tuesday. Officers responded to reports of a stabbing at the Real Canadian Superstore on Murphy Road around 7:45 p.m., police said. A 30-year-old woman with cuts to her head and neck was taken to hospital where she was treated and released. The teen is charged with assault with a weapon, possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose and disobeying a court order. She was arrested at the scene and held in custody.Moto
  
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• Newly renovated Bluewater Health cancer clinic making a difference

  14-05-2025 22:15 via theobserver.ca
  
  Patients and their families attending the oncology clinic at Bluewater Health used to have to go to different areas to register and pick up their medications. Now, everything is in one area, said Ray Meyer, the hospital group’s director of surgery. Rooms that are more private, where people can meet with physicians, washrooms within the space, “which we didn’t have before,” a new space for infusions, and a more welcoming feel has made an impact in the renovated space that
  
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• Walk to Remember pregnancies and babies lost returns to Sarnia

  14-05-2025 19:53 via theobserver.ca
  
  A morning walk at Sarnia’s Canatara Park June 1 will commemorate pregnancies and babies lost. It’s the second year A Walk to Remember, an initiative of the Sunnybrook Pregnancy and Infant Loss Network, will be held in Sarnia, said local volunteer Lo-Anne Chan. She founded The Valeria Fund in Sarnia in memory of her daughter who was born in April 2023 and died due to a pre-existing genetic condition.A Walk to Remember is held in communities across Ontario, including London and Windsor
  
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• Road work resumes in Point Edward

  14-05-2025 18:50 via theobserver.ca
  
  A now-$7.3-million St. Clair and Lite streets rebuild in Point Edward has resumed. Crews with Cope Construction, who took over the project after the village cut ties with contractor McNally last July, began work between Michigan and Alexandra avenues a month ago, and are pulverizing south to Bridge Street starting Thursday, Point Edward’s Jim Burns said. Hopes are, weather permitting, to have the section between Michigan and Alexandra rebuilt by the end of May, the village’s chief ad
  
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• Sarnia's Myles Vanni honoured with volunteer medal at Rideau Hall

  14-05-2025 18:37 via theobserver.ca
  
  Myles Vanni still doesn’t know who nominated him for the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers. The executive director of Sarnia’s Inn of the Good Shepherd and his family travelled to Ottawa in late April for Rideau Hall ceremony at which Gov. Gen. Mary Simon presented Vanni and 60 other recipients of the highest honour for volunteer service in Canada’s honours system.“It was quite a surprise,” Vanni said of the phone call from Rideau Hall official with news of the
  
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• Man wanted by Sarnia police jailed for drug-fuelled crime spree

  14-05-2025 18:34 via theobserver.ca
  
  A young Aamjiwnaang First Nation man who made the Sarnia police wanted list earlier this year has been jailed for a drug-fuelled crime spree. Corbin Williams, who police said on New Year’s Day was wanted for breaking and entering and mischief, recently pleaded guilty from a Sarnia courtroom’s prisoner’s box to mischief, being unlawfully in a dwelling house, resisting police and theft. For that, the first-time, 20-year-old Indigenous offender was given 90 days in jail. His lawye
  
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• Homeless addict jailed 90 days for crime spree

  14-05-2025 18:34 via theobserver.ca
  
  A young Aamjiwnaang First Nation man was sentenced to 90 days in jail for a series of petty crimes. Corbin Williams, who police said on New Year’s Day was wanted for breaking and entering and mischief, recently pleaded guilty from a Sarnia courtroom’s prisoner’s box to mischief, being unlawfully in a dwelling house, resisting police and theft. For that, the first-time, 20-year-old Indigenous offender was given 90 days in jail. His lawyer, Joseph Stoesser, said his client, who b
  
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• Man who made Sarnia police wanted list jailed 6 months

  14-05-2025 18:10 via theobserver.ca
  
  A man arrested after making the Sarnia police wanted list a year ago has been jailed nearly six months for stealing and breaching probation. While being sentenced this time, Tyson Wilde told a judge he wanted to apologize. Justice Mark Poland told Wilde it’s easy to say that, but it’s hard to do something about it. “What’s really meaningful is when people take action and do something about the problems that they have in their lives that are causing them to be in court,&rd
  
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• Trucker changes plea to guilty in Sarnia $12 million cocaine smuggling trial

  13-05-2025 23:35 via theobserver.ca
  
  A Toronto-area truck driver’s week-long trial in Sarnia into drug smuggling charges laid three years ago at the Blue Water Bridge came to an abrupt end on Day 2 after he changed his pleas to guilty. Chander Sidhar, 55, of Caledon was charged with importing cocaine and possessing cocaine for the purpose of trafficking after 84 one-kilogram bricks of suspected cocaine were seized in a truck on Dec. 14, 2022, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and RCMP officials said at the time. Sidhar ple
  
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• Sarnia Community Foundation seeks impact grant applications

  13-05-2025 22:31 via theobserver.ca
  
  The Sarnia Community Foundation is inviting applications for its annual community impact grants. In 2024, the long-running program provided about $160,000 to 16 recipients, said foundation executive director Mike Barron. About the same sum will be available in 2025 grants, likely to be announced at an event in October, he said. Deadline to apply is June 6. When looking at applications, committee officials consider what will have the greatest impact in the community, Barron said. “That&rsqu
  
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• Unitarian fellowship sponsors Death Cafe event in Sarnia

  13-05-2025 20:53 via theobserver.ca
  
  Officiating about 500 funerals and memorial services since 2003 has helped Allan McKeown appreciate the importance of people coming to peace with mortality. “If you’re afraid of dying, if you have that hanging over your head all the time, it really detracts from your ability to live your life well,” said the former lay chaplain with the Unitarian Fellowship of Sarnia and Port Huron. McKeown has retired from that role, but said he still conducts services for people who ask. &ldq
  
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• Toronto trucker pleads not guilty to smuggling $4M cocaine in Sarnia

  13-05-2025 16:18 via theobserver.ca
  A Toronto-area truck driver pleaded not guilty to cocaine smuggling charges Monday in a Sarnia courtroom as a weeklong trial into an alleged $4 million cocaine bust at the Blue Water Bridge three years ago gets underway. Eighty-four, one-kilogram bricks of suspected cocaine were seized on Dec. 14, 2022 after a commercial truck crossing the border from Michigan to the Sarnia area was sent for a secondary examination, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and RCMP officials said at the time. An RCM
  
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• Steady opioid-poisoning death rate concerning: Lambton public health

  12-05-2025 21:11 via theobserver.ca
  There were 35 deaths linked to opioid poisoning in Sarnia-Lambton last year, public health data show. That’s almost on par with the 36 such deaths in Lambton in 2023, and roughly midway between the 31 in 2022, and 38 in 2021, amid the fentanyl-fuelled public health scourge that’s affecting all parts of Canada. Lambton’s death rate per 100,000 people – it was 25.04 in 2024 – has been above the provincial average – 13.91 in 2024 – since 2019. The numbers,
  
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• Sarnia-Lambton launches newcomer hub for permanent residents

  12-05-2025 18:35 via theobserver.ca
  Richa Joshi says she’s experienced some of the challenges new permanent residents face in Canada. Among them are lack of Canadian experience when it comes to job applications, and foreign credentials not being recognized locally, said the former architect from India, who’s been in Sarnia since 2018. Newcomers are “probably one of the most flexible, adaptable people” as they work to assimilate into the local environment and labour market, she said. “They’re her
  
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• Sarnia Concert Association series turns 90 in 2025-2026

  11-05-2025 17:54 via theobserver.ca
  
  The Sarnia Concert Association  regularly accomplishes a goal set when its annual seasons began nine decades ago. Volunteers who organize and host the annual concert series at the Imperial Theatre have announced the association’s 90th season for 2025-2026. Its mandate is to “bring world class music to Sarnia,” said David Nichols, who leads a committee selecting the season lineups. “Back at the inception,” when the association’s charter was written, &ldquo
  
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• Sarnia Concert Association announces its 90th season

  11-05-2025 17:54 via theobserver.ca
  The Sarnia Concert Association regularly accomplishes a goal set when its annual seasons began nine decades ago. Volunteers who organize and host the annual concert series at the Imperial Theatre have announced the association’s 90th season for 2025-26. Its mandate is to “bring world-class music to Sarnia,” said David Nichols, who leads a committee selecting season lineups. “Back at the inception,” when the association’s charter was written, “the bo
  
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• Stars 21-plus cast feeling confident ahead of Sarnia shows

  11-05-2025 15:57 via theobserver.ca
  
  A Sarnia musical theatre group’s third annual show is taking shape. Confidence is Cool, by Stars 21-plus, is set to be staged June 20 and 21 at the Sarnia Library Theatre where director Holly Wenning has been leading 18 young adults in twice-weekly rehearsals since the end of March. “We say ‘exceptionalities,'” Wenning said about the cast of the productions sponsored by the Down Syndrome Association of Lambton County. It began as a retirement project for the community the
  
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• Teen sought after stabbing: Sarnia police

  10-05-2025 22:25 via theobserver.ca
  An arrest warrant has been issued for a Sarnia teen after a stabbing during a Friday evening brawl, city police say. Officers responding to multiple 911 reports of a large brawl at East South and Ross streets found a “chaotic scene,” a police release said. Officers heard screaming and went to a nearby backyard, where a 17-year-old said he’d been stabbed in the arm and struck with a “baton-type weapon” during a fight that escalated to involve others, police said. Ano
  
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• Arrest warrant issued following stabbing: Sarnia police

  10-05-2025 22:25 via theobserver.ca
  
  An arrest warrant has been issued for an 18-your-old Sarnia man in connection with a stabbing during a brawl in the city Friday evening, say Sarnia police. Police arrived and found what was described as a “chaotic scene” after multiple 911 calls were received at approximately 9:30 p.m. reporting a large brawl at the corner of East Street South and Ross Street, police said in a news release. Officers heard screaming at the scene and went to a nearby backyard where a 17-year-old said h
  
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• Lambton Shrine Club onion sale set to roll into Point Edward

  10-05-2025 19:54 via theobserver.ca
  
  A truck load of onions is expected to arrive midweek at the south parking lot next to the Blue Water Bridge in Point Edward. Continuing a more than three-decade tradition, the Lambton Shrine Club will be selling bags of Vidalia onions as a fundraiser to help purchase medical equipment for children’s hospitals. Club member Rob Donald said the sale of 1,000 bags of onions is expected to begin Wednesday or Thursday next to the bridge, depending on when the shipment arrives, and run from 8 a.m
  
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• Emergency Preparedness Day stresses planning, preparation

  10-05-2025 19:45 via theobserver.ca
  Don’t forget the pets when disaster strikes. That was one message shared Saturday during an Emergency Preparedness Day for families organized by local emergency response groups at Lambton College. Some 35 exhibitors provided information on local emergency response organizations and steps residents can take to keep themselves and their families safe in an emergency. Pets are something people may not think about ahead of emergencies, said Nicole King, operations manager for the Sarnia and Di
  
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• Emergency Preparedness Day returned Saturday to Sarnia

  10-05-2025 19:45 via theobserver.ca
  
  Don’t forget the pets when disaster strikes. That was one of the messages shared Saturday during an Emergency Preparedness Day for families organized by local emergency response groups and hosted at Lambton College. Some 35 exhibitors provided information on local emergency response organizations and steps residents can take to keep themselves and their families safe in an emergency. Pets are something people may not be thinking about ahead of emergencies, said Nicole King, operations mana
  
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• Sarnia man kicking fentanyl addiction charged with drug trafficking

  09-05-2025 21:11 via theobserver.ca
  
  A Sarnia-area man who turned a corner from a serious fentanyl addiction was arrested by Lambton OPP and charged with trafficking the drug. Police pulled over a vehicle on Deacon Street in Thedford around 9 p.m. April 30 and found suspected fentanyl, methamphetamine and cash. “The combined estimated value of the items seized is over $6,500,” Lambton OPP said Thursday . Deshawn Williams, 25, of Ajax and Karl Pilz, 31, from Thedford were arrested and charged with trafficking fentanyl. P
  
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• Driver gets 6 months for role in Sarnia woman's kidnapping

  09-05-2025 20:49 via theobserver.ca
  
  While Lillian Delben was being sentenced to jail earlier this year for stealing once again, she told the judge she’d been having a hard time as some crazy stuff went down. “This big thing happened and it kind of set me off my rocker,” she said. “It scared me.” Delben, it turns out, is the 22-year-old woman Sarnia police said was kidnapped on Stuart Street in January. Police were called around 1 p.m. Jan. 10 to Confederation and Stuart streets where a young woma
  
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• Sarnia-area home sales climb in April

  09-05-2025 20:47 via theobserver.ca
  
  Home sales in the Sarnia area bounced back in April, an area realtors group says. The Sarnia-Lambton Association of Realtors reported 173 home sales in April, compared to 120 in March. “The stats were very promising that things may be turning around or stabilizing, at the very least,” said association president Jeremy Guerette. April sales were up nearly five per cent over the same month in 2024, and last month’s $94.2 million in total dollar volume was also up.Both categories
  
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• Rainbow Park cleanup continues in Sarnia

  09-05-2025 19:08 via theobserver.ca
  
  More cleanup work is planned in Sarnia’s Rainbow Park. The former site of a homeless camp that ended in February remains fenced off with security as Sarnia city staff work to clean it up. So far, that’s included raking and cleaning the grass, disinfecting playground equipment and removing garbage and debris, even using a magnet, from the playground area, city officials said in a recent report to council. “We’re just working to bring that park back up to the same standards
  
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• Sarnia resumes in-person city council meetings

  09-05-2025 18:32 via theobserver.ca
  
  Sarnia will resume in-person council meetings May 26, more than a year since the last time open meetings were held in council chambers. “We’ve been talking about it for quite a while,” said Coun. Terry Burrell, after council voted Friday in a special meeting in favour of Burrell’s motion to resume face to face meetings. Burrell said resuming face to face interactions helps in a number of ways. “One is obviously the personal interaction of the individuals on council,
  
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• Free pre-apprenticeship program for women offered in Sarnia

  09-05-2025 17:45 via theobserver.ca
  
  A free pre-apprenticeship program will introduce eight women in the Sarnia area to careers as automotive service and heavy-duty equipment technicians. It’s a partnership between Women Building Futures, an Alberta non-profit organization that set up a Southwestern Ontario office in Sarnia last year, and Employment Ontario. Applications will be accepted until May 25 at womenbuildingfutures.ca for the program, which begins in August. It includes eight weeks in the classroom and four-week paid
  
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• Sarnia man guilty of underage sex charges planning appeal - The Sarnia Observer

  08-05-2025 23:47 via news.google.com
  Sarnia man guilty of underage sex charges planning appeal  The Sarnia Observer
  
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