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• Sarnia man gets 1 year for ‘cowardly, gutless attack’

  02-04-2025 22:36 via theobserver.ca
  
  A storm arrived at the Sarnia courthouse just as a judge started sentencing a man for his role in the ambush group beating of a local Walmart employee skateboarding home through Germain Park.
  
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• Sarnia man sentenced for fighting roommate after leaving strip club

  21-04-2025 21:36 via theobserver.ca
  
  Anthony Hendley, charged three years ago after Sarnia police said a man was stabbed as two roommates returned home from a bar, was looking forward to pleading guilty to the 2022 charges, his lawyer told a judge. “He’s here and quite excited to be arraigned and to move forward with the process, finally,” defence lawyer James Guggisberg said last week in a Sarnia courtroom. “I’ve never heard of anybody being excited to be arraigned, but we’ll go with that, Mr.
  
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• Sarnia police looking east for new headquarters

  21-04-2025 20:36 via theobserver.ca
  
  Sarnia police are suggesting the city’s east end for a new police headquarters. Either Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park lands, or space south of the park and Wellington Street, beside Modeland Road, would be best, police board chair Paul Wiersma said. Other options identified by city staff include by Sarnia’s airport, at the 402 Business Park, or at Veterans Field at Lottie Neely Park, he said. Limits on communication tower heights near the airport, and not wanting to oust Lotti
  
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• Cereal a sought-after food bank item: Inn of the Good Shepherd

  21-04-2025 18:47 via theobserver.ca
  
  Boxes of cereal are in demand at the Inn of the Good Shepherd’s food bank in Sarnia, and a school-based fundraiser has been helping keep shelves stocked, the charity’s executive director says. “It’s huge for us in terms of getting that one breakfast item in,” Myles Vanni said about the Cereal Dom-INN-Os challenge. The drive, in its fourth year, asks elementary schools to collect cereal boxes for donation and arrange them in a dominoes course, then watch them tumble
  
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• Sarnia man zapped with stun gun was just released from jail

  21-04-2025 16:49 via theobserver.ca
  
  David Kaczmarek, the man who was zapped with a stun gun and arrested last weekend after Sarnia police said he was acting erratically and combatively, was just released from jail for three similar offences. The first was around 10 p.m. on New Year’s Day, when Kaczmarek, 39, knocked on the front door of a Maxwell Street home and tried the handle. The person living there opened the door, but then slammed it shut. Kaczmarek was arrested in the area soon after.On January 12, 2025, at 2:30 pm S
  
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• Erratic, combative Sarnia man zapped with stun gun just got out of jail

  21-04-2025 16:49 via theobserver.ca
  
  David Kaczmarek, the man who was zapped with a stun gun and arrested last weekend after Sarnia police said he was acting erratically and combatively, just got out of jail last week for three other similar offences. The first was around 10 p.m. on New Year’s Day, when Kaczmarek, 39, walked up to the front door of a Maxwell Street home, knocked on the door and tried the handle, a Sarnia courtroom heard last week. The person living there opened the door, but then became frightened and slamme
  
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• Coronation medal honours Sarnia man's five-decades as a volunteer - The Sarnia Observer

  20-04-2025 19:38 via news.google.com
  Coronation medal honours Sarnia man's five-decades as a volunteer  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Medals honour five-decade Sarnia volunteer, IODE leaders

  20-04-2025 19:34 via theobserver.ca
  A long-serving Kidney Foundation of Canada volunteer and four local IODE leaders are the latest Sarnia-area recipients of King Charles III Coronation Medals. The medals, commemorating the monarch’s May 2023 coronation, honour individuals who have made a significant contribution to Canada or their local community. Greg Robbins, nominated by the Kidney Foundation, began volunteering with the organization in 1973. “It was a nice surprise,” he said. “You don’t do volun
  
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• Coronation medal honours Sarnia man's five-decades as a volunteer

  20-04-2025 19:34 via theobserver.ca
  
  A long-serving volunteer with the Kidney Foundation of Canada, along with four local IODE leaders, are the latest Sarnia-area residents to receive King Charles III Coronation Medals. The medals commemorating the coronation of King Charles III are given to individuals who have made a significant contribution to Canada or their local community. Greg Robbins, nominated by the Kidney Foundation, began his volunteer work with the organization in 1973. “It was a nice surprise,” he said. &
  
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• Astronaut and sketch duo from Sarnia team up at Canada's Got Talent - The Sarnia Observer

  20-04-2025 17:44 via news.google.com
  Astronaut and sketch duo from Sarnia team up at Canada's Got Talent  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Astronaut and sketch duo from Sarnia team up at Canada's Got Talent

  20-04-2025 17:37 via theobserver.ca
  
  An episode of the new season of Canada’s Got Talent has an out-of-this-world amount of Sarnia talent. Carson Pinch and Taylor Davis, a comedy sketch duo tracing its history back to a Sarnia Little Theatre youth group, made their second appearance on the television talent show in April and Katherine Ryan, a Sarnia-born comedian, actor and TV personality in Great Britain, was one of the celebrity judges. Plus, Sarnia-born retired astronaut Chris Hadfield was a surprise guest called on stage
  
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• Sarnia intersection closes after crash for traffic light repairs - sarnianewstoday.ca

  20-04-2025 17:28 via news.google.com
  Sarnia intersection closes after crash for traffic light repairs  sarnianewstoday.ca
  
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• Cyclist with knives and break-in tools arrested: Sarnia police - The Sarnia Observer

  20-04-2025 14:38 via news.google.com
  Cyclist with knives and break-in tools arrested: Sarnia police  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Person charged with possession of break-in tools

  20-04-2025 14:32 via theobserver.ca
  A 28-year-old Sarnia resident is charged with possession of prohibited weapons and break-in tools. Police stopped a person on a bicycle around 10:20 p.m. on Coben Street near Mitton Street Friday. The person was found to be violating release conditions and a search uncovered two prohibited flick knives, a pry bar, binoculars, cable cutters, a file, a multi-tool, and pliers, police said.Man found violating home arrest facing new chargesSarnia police say an officer had to quickly brake Friday mor
  
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• Cyclist with knives and break-in tools arrested: Sarnia police

  20-04-2025 14:32 via theobserver.ca
  
  Weapons and break-in tools were found Friday night during a search of a cyclist arrested in Sarnia for violating release conditions, say city police. It happened at 10:20 p.m. on Coben Street near Mitton Street, police said in a news release. The cyclist was found to be violating release conditions, including a curfew, and a search uncovered two prohibited flick knives as well as a pry bar, binoculars, cable cutters, a file, multi-tool, and pliers, police said. A 28-year-old Sarnia resident fac
  
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• Crash under investigation in Sarnia - Sydenham Current

  20-04-2025 07:45 via news.google.com
  Crash under investigation in Sarnia  Sydenham Current
  
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• Visiting Liberal candidate says Bright's Grove library grant approved - The Sarnia Observer

  19-04-2025 21:18 via news.google.com
  Visiting Liberal candidate says Bright's Grove library grant approved  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Visiting Liberal candidate says Bright's Grove library grant approved

  19-04-2025 21:11 via theobserver.ca
  
  Supporters of plans for a Bright’s Grove library hub project received unexpected good news Friday when Nate Erskine-Smith, a cabinet minister when the federal election was called, dropped by the Liberal campaign office in Sarnia. Erkine-Smith, who was Liberal minister of housing, infrastructure and communities when the writ dropped for the election, shared news at the Sarnia visit that the library hub project’s application to a Green and Inclusive Community Buildings program has bee
  
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• $4.5M Bright's Grove library hub grant OK'd: visiting Liberal minister

  19-04-2025 21:11 via theobserver.ca
  There was unexpected good news for a planned Bright’s Grove library hub project from the campaign trail over the long weekend. The project’s bid for a $4.5-million Green and Inclusive Community Buildings program grant has been has been approved, Toronto-area Liberal candidate and housing minister Nate Erskine-Smith said during an impromptu visit to the Liberal campaign office in Sarnia Friday. “It’s quite amazing,” said Mark Moran, who chairs the hub project commit
  
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• Sarnia's 55th Easter in the Park held Saturday at Canatara Park - The Sarnia Observer

  19-04-2025 19:28 via news.google.com
  Sarnia's 55th Easter in the Park held Saturday at Canatara Park  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Sarnia's 55th Easter in the Park held Saturday at Canatara Park

  19-04-2025 19:26 via theobserver.ca
  
  Dave Satram with the Seaway Kiwanis Club knows the impact Sarnia’s Easter in the Park has across generations. Families poured into the park near the Children’s Animal Farm Saturday morning for the 55th annual egg hunt event, that also included face painting, a magic show, inflatables, photos with the Easter Bunny, balloon animals, crafts and snacks the service club sold at the Carriage House. “I was a kid coming to this event and now I’m a volunteer,” Satram said.
  
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• 'It's a great tradition': Families throng Sarnia's 55th Easter in the Park

  19-04-2025 19:26 via theobserver.ca
  Dave Satram with the Seaway Kiwanis Club knows the impact Sarnia’s Easter in the Park has across generations. Families poured into the park near the Children’s Animal Farm Saturday morning for the 55th egg hunt event, which featured face painting, a magic show, inflatables, photos with the Easter Bunny, balloon animals, crafts and snacks the service club sold at the Carriage House. “I was a kid coming to this event and now I’m a volunteer,” Satram said. “Once
  
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• Lambton College launches AI for Advanced Manufacturing Development Site - CTV News

  19-04-2025 18:35 via news.google.com
  Lambton College launches AI for Advanced Manufacturing Development Site  CTV News
  
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• Labour Council endorses Lo-Anne Chan for Member of Parliament - The Sarnia Journal

  18-04-2025 21:58 via news.google.com
  Labour Council endorses Lo-Anne Chan for Member of Parliament  The Sarnia Journal
  
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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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• Man jailed for incidents in Corunna, outside Sarnia Arena - The Sarnia Observer

  18-04-2025 19:17 via news.google.com
  Man jailed for incidents in Corunna, outside Sarnia Arena  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Sarnia man jailed for incident in stolen car outside Pat Stapleton Arena

  18-04-2025 19:08 via theobserver.ca
  While sentencing Kayleb Traquair to more than eight months in jail for offences in Corunna and outside a Sarnia arena, a judge asked him how old he was. Traquair, standing in the Sarnia courtroom’s prisoner’s box, said 23. “You’re going to blink your eyes and you’re going to realize you spent your entire 20s in jail. That’ll be a pretty depressing moment when you come to that realization,” Justice Mark Poland replied. “It’s time to get it to
  
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• Man jailed for incidents in Corunna, outside Sarnia Arena

  18-04-2025 19:08 via theobserver.ca
  
  While sentencing Kayleb Traquair to more than eight months in jail, for offences in Corunna and outside a Sarnia arena, a judge asked him how old he was. Traquair, standing in the Sarnia courtroom’s prisoner’s box, said 23. “You’re going to blink your eyes and you’re going to realize you spent your entire 20s in jail. That’ll be a pretty depressing moment when you come to that realization,” Justice Mark Poland replied. “It’s time to get it t
  
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• Donation funds ER and equipment upgrades at Sarnia hospital - The Sarnia Observer

  18-04-2025 18:02 via news.google.com
  Donation funds ER and equipment upgrades at Sarnia hospital  The Sarnia Observer
  
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• Donation funds ER and equipment upgrades at Sarnia hospital

  18-04-2025 18:01 via theobserver.ca
  
  A $125,000 donation from the Gordon Foundation and Kel-Gor Limited will fund enhancement of the emergency department triage assessment area and the purchase of a new ultrasound system at Bluewater Health in Sarnia. The donation was announced this week by the Bluewater Health Foundation. “We are proud to make this donation to Bluewater Health, not only to support the hospital’s continued excellence but also to recognize a few exceptional individuals whose dedication and care truly st
  
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