Helps, Leitch add to their medal totals at OFSAA Track and Field Championships
Outbreak at Meadowview over – more COVID-19 cases and another death at Vision
June 3, 2020
Lambton Meadowview Villa is again COVID-19 free but another outbreak in Sarnia continues to claim lives.
Lambton Public Health declared an outbreak at the Petrolia home after a staff member was sent home May 19with a headache and later tested positive for COVID-19.
No one else in the home has had symptoms of the virus since then.
But at Vision Nursing Home in Sarnia, another resident and another staff member have now tested positive for COVID-19. And there has been another resident die. Nine of the Vision residents who were COVID-19 positive were moved to the hospital last week. Two have since passed away.
In all, Lambton Public Health statistics show 266 people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus – 210 have recovered. Twenty-four people have died.
In all as of June 1, 7,091 tests have been done in Lambton.
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Helps, Leitch add to their medal totals at OFSAA Track and Field Championships
June 6, 2026
John Wright/The Independent LCCVI’s Jaylen Helps and Mooretown’s Camryn Leitch both secured their second medal of the OFSAA Track and Field Championships on Saturday in St. Catharines. Helps claimed a bronze medal in Novice Girls discus with a season’s best throw. It was the second consecutive day she won bronze after taking home that medal in Novice Girls javelin on
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Elliott wins gold, five other Lambton athletes medal at OFSAA Track and Field Championships
June 5, 2026
John Wright/The Independent On a sizzling day in St. Catharines, Kallee Elliott leapt a personal best 1.61 meters to claim the gold medal in Novice Girls high jump at the OFSAA Track and Field Championships. Elliott cleared her first three jumps of the day with ease. That brought her to 1.55 meters where she had to work for it. The
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LCCVI Rugby finishes in the top eight at OFSAA
June 5, 2026
The Independent For the third year in a row, LCCVI’s Girls’ Rugby team made it into the top eight of the provincial A/AA championship. The first game of the tournament, the 11th-seeded Lancers upset sixth-ranked Bowmanville-Clarington Central, 17-12. Trailing 12-0 at the half, LCCVI fought back with second half tries from Mya Beaudoin, Miley Anderson and Abbi White along with
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Public health warns of more ticks in southeast Lambton
June 5, 2026
Heather Wright/The Independent If you’re picking more ticks off your dogs when you go for a walk in southern Lambton County, don’t be surprised. Lambton Public Health says the southeastern part of the county, including Dawn-Euphemia and parts of Brooke-Alvinston, have been identified as Established Risk Areas for the Blacklegged Ticks responsible for Lyme Disease. Over the past few years,
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