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Wind protestors to block 402 at Forest today

October 19, 2013

  As the wind turbines roll into southwestern Ontario ready for construction, reality is starting to sink in. Ingrid Willemsen of the anti-industrial wind turbine group WAIT in Plympton-Wyoming says that is one of the reasons for Saturday’s planned blockade of Highway 402. The Middlesex Lambton Wind Concerns group has organized the 10 am protest calling on residents to bring

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Municipalities want Churchill to be a county road

October 18, 2013

The Independent Staff   Enniskillen and Plympton-Wyoming are hoping upgrades to Churchill Line will help entice Lambton County take over the road. The two municipalities are spending $1 million to upgrade the road between Oil Heritage Line to Forest Line. Enniskillen Mayor Kevin Marriott says $400,000 was spent last year preparing the base of the road. In the last few

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Construction planned at CEE Monday

October 18, 2013

If you’re heading to Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital in Petrolia next week, you’re likely to run into some construction. Starting Monday, there will be construction workers will be repairing the cement steps of the emergency department. Officials say there is no impact to ambulance access but everyone will have to use the ramp to get in. Bluewater Health is asking

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Health team building could get approval by end of the month

October 18, 2013

  Construction on the new building for the Central Lambton Family Health team could begin this fall. The team of seven family doctors and nine health professionals currently works out of Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital but the team and its board has been planning  new facility to be built at Englehart Park on Glenview Drive for over a year. Petrolia

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Canada Post cuts Oil Springs office hours

October 17, 2013

Canada Post is cutting hours at the Oil Springs post office. In a letter to Oil Springs Council, Canada Post local area manager, Tad Wolanski, says Canada Post conducted a review of customer traffic patterns in the village’s post office and “determined that we have a very small number of local customers on Saturdays and weekdays between the hours of

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McCharles would support “Not A Willing Host” designation for Lambton

October 17, 2013

Petrolia Mayor John McCharles says Lambton County should unite to stop industrial wind turbines from popping up all over the landscape. And that should include declaring the county not a willing host and lobbying the provincial government to return planning rights. The county is currently considering whether to join a Charter of Rights and Freedoms case by a Goderich couple.

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Florence Henderson wows Petrolia

October 16, 2013

“That girl is a singer. She knows how to perform.” David Hogan, co-artistic director of Victoria Playhouse Petrolia, is in awe of Florence Henderson. The woman many people know as Carol Brady from the classic TV Show The Brady Bunch is in Petrolia to perform her one woman show “All the Lives of Me” for the first time in Canada.

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Lancer pie pride

October 16, 2013

William Font and Kiana Parkes, both in Grade 10, work on some of the 225 pies made by LCCVI food classes just before Thanksgiving.   You could call it Lancer Pie Pride. Students from every grade in the family studies classes made 225 pumpkin pies from scratch just before Thanksgiving. They also created 125 apple crisps and 75 entries for

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Oil Springs woman faces $2,600 sewer problem

October 15, 2013

An Oil Springs woman is facing a large bill after trying to clear a sewage backup herself. In mid-August, there was a backup on Oil Springs Line due to a blockage in the pipe which town staff was likely caused by an excess of baby wipes. Town staff called in Smit Landscaping and Utility Contractor to clear the blockage. It

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Living life on the midway

October 12, 2013

For decades, the Brigden Fall Fair has for many marked the beginning of fall, but for Barry Ford, it is an ending. The Nanticoke man is a crew leader of World’s Finest Midways which makes its circuit around the Ontario providing rides for all the community fairs. Brigden is the last stop on the tour which starts in April. The

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Keeping people smiling for 50 years

October 11, 2013

Duncan MacRae just likes to keep people smiling. Of course, they likely wouldn’t know it’s MacRae; they would be smiling at his alter-ego, Windy the Clown. MacRae has been delighting the crowds at the Brigden Fair since 1963. It was that year that his new mother-in-law convinced him to don the clown suit to entertain the crowds at the fair

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Both Lancer Jr. teams playing in the soccer finals Tuesday

October 11, 2013

The Lancer Jr. Girls  will take on Northern in the Soccer final. The Lancers beat North Lambton Secondary School Thursday with an overtime 1-0 win. Natasha Curran had the lone goal and Marisa Mueller had the shutout. Northern defeated St. Pat’s 4-1 in the other semi-final. The final will be Tuesday at Northern starting at 4pm.   Meantime the Jr.

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