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There will be lights and music and treats as Petrolia residents kick off the Christmas season Friday and Saturday. Friday night, Victoria Park comes alive with a Chili Cook-off starting at 6 pm. A number of service clubs and community groups are vying for the Chili Pot and Silver Fork Awards. The town’s Christmas trees will be turned on by

Cathy Dobson /Special to The Independent Petrolia’s Erika and Sara will be rolling out their new tune as they hit Sarnia’s First Friday stage, tomorrow. The duo have a new single out, “Roulette Wheel” which was recorded at 1092 Studios in Nashville and released on Spotify and iTunes on Nov. 13. “It’s doing really well,” said Erika. “We’re really happy

People packed the Petrolia Legion Tuesday all to make sure everyone’s Christmas is merry and bright. The Petrolia Rotary hosted the annual Christmas for Everyone Soup Lunch and raised $2,100 to contribute to Christmas food and toy hampers for about 400 area families this Christmas. The Rotary also collected some toys, food and annual donations from local residents for the

An 11 year-old Petrolia actor will soon be making his screen debut. Ryan Godwin, a student at St. Philip’s, is one of four featured actors in a new short film called Elite Nerf Strike – the second of a five part short film series by Aaron Esser. The film was shot in Sarnia and Sombra area over a period of

When the Lambton Young Theatre Players take to the stage in The Magic Nutcracker this weekend – they’ll likely surprise a few people. Classic Christmas offering is often staged as a ballet – but Artistic Director Nancy Keys has studied the original traditional story by E.T.A. Hoffman and an adaptation by Alexandre Dumas to create the young theatre players version of

A Petrolia woman’s video has captured the imagination of UFO hunters. Caroline Connelly sent a number of videos she has taken over the summer from her backyard of lights in the sky – including one Oct. 1 around 10:30 am. “I had a premonition the day before, that I was going to see something,” she says. Connelly says three points of

Jennifer Walls is such an impressive musical impersonator,  Ben Vereen encouraged her to take her Liza Minnelli show to New York. But when she hits the Victoria Playhouse stage Nov. 24, she says you won’t see Liza or Celine Dion. “It will be pure me,” says the Toronto-based singer/producer/voice actor. This is Walls’ second season celebrating Christmas with Starbright. She

Cara Vosburg The Independent Lexi Hext didn’t feel the emotion of the moment until she saw the yellow roses. The LCCVI student was the final skater to take the ice Sunday evening in tribute to her mom, Tracy, in the I Skate for Mom figure skating showcase. Hext organized the event with help from her dad, Jim, to raise money

  After 21 years in the military, Sgt. Michael Lebrascuer has fulfilled a dream to march in the annual Remembrance Day parade in his hometown. And he says it was everything he hoped it would be. Lebrascuer grew up in Petrolia, going to St. Philips and then LCCVI for his education. Somewhere along the line he decided to join Canada’s

Warren Graham says it is difficult for community theatres to find plays incorporating a lot of characters so he’s written one just for Petrolia Community Theatre. Dear Santa Thanks…But That’s Not Our Grandma is being staged Nov. 12 to 15 at Victoria Playhouse Petrolia – the first of the theater’s Christmas offerings. Graham, who is a mainstay on the community

Two short films will focus on what happened in the autumn of 1944 to help commemorate the lives lost during war. Crisis on the Hill shows how Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s government introduced conscriptions after the battles for Normandy and the Channel Coast to Antwerp. V was for Victory looks at 1945, when the Allies were fighting for the Rhineland,

  Ben Skinner can’t put into words what it means to say he has an art show in Paris. The work of the Petrolia native will be shown in a small but prestigious gallery in Paris which has hosted the works of artists such as Banksy. It’s a region filled with some of the great galleries of Europe including the