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As soon as Manon Adams saw colour pencil drawing she knew it was for her. The Wyoming artist was living in Wallaceburg at the time. She had dabbled in painting when her children were small but decided she wanted to learn to draw. She was at Artist Bev Fish’s home when she saw a book with the coloured pencil work.

The sale of the Shiloh Community Centre garnered over $8,000 for Enniskillen Township. The township decided to hold a public auction for the building after the furnace was condemned. Council determined with members of the community that there were not enough rentals to cover the cost of a new furnace. Enniskillen Mayor Kevin Marriott ended up buying the property at

Family and friends packed the LCCVI auditorium Saturday for graduation. Nearly 200 young people celebrated completing high school at LCCVI. Much-loved former teacher Roger Sparks addressed the students urging them to find a career they love. “What you do with your life matters,” he says. “You can make a global difference.” And he says they’ll always carry a bit of

The Shiloh School has been a part of Irwin Syer’s life for as long as he can remember. Syer, who lived just “a mile down the road” from SS No. 12, started going to school there when the building was just four years old in 1938. Syer was one of about 40 people who were on hand as the former

Talk about a $100,000 smile. Kathy Raes could hardly keep from smiling after winning $100,000 while playing her favourite lottery. “Instant Money Multiplier is one of my favourite games,” Raes says in a news release issued by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission. “When I realized I won, I thought it was a mistake – I thought that I had

Petrolia elementary school students want to know what town councilors do, why the house on the hill isn’t fixed up and if the town is going to do anything about their bikes and skateboards being caught in the sewer grates. About 200 students filled the Victoria Playhouse theatre Monday as council held its regular meeting during the day on the

A child selects a book while the politicians open the newly renovated Inwood Library   Marie Shilson and Nola Tait can remember the “little wee white house” which was once the Inwood Library. As they sat in the new expanded Inwood Library, they could hardly believe the difference. Brooke Alvinston and the federal government spent about $225,000 to renovate the

The shelves at the Petrolia Food Bank are low this fall, even after the traditional Thanksgiving donation bump. Food bank manager, Sandra Hartman, says throughout the summer and into the fall there has not been enough donated food to meet the needs of the community. “We’ve had to purchase a lot more than we normally do,” she says as she

  The production of It Had to Be You has been a fantastic learning experience for Michael Vanhevel. The crooner from Grand Bend has been honing his craft in bars and one-man shows and spent the last two summers working in theaters in Ontario with Victoria Playhouse Petrolia’s David Hogan and David Rogers. So when D2 Entertainment approached him with

The reconstruction of Princess Street in Petrolia is on schedule. That’s according to Joe Adams, director of operations for the town. The $1.3 million project began in September. Construction workers have now installed the watermains and all services from Nelson Street through the intersection at Dufferin and Princess and are installing new catch basins and leads. The second crew is

  Jean Windover is hopeful a new stained glass window in the Petrolia Library reflects a little of her long-time friend. Friends, family and members of the Margaret Stokes IODE in Petrolia donated money to purchase the window to honour the life of Pat Moloney who died recently after a long battle with cancer. The flowering dogwood window is a

  The oil history of Oil Springs is making headlines at Western University in London. A number of students taking their masters in public history recently visited Oil Springs, touring Fairbank Oil Properties and the Oil Museum of Canada, including the oldest oil fields in North America. Charles Fairbank gave the group a firsthand look at the jerker line system