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PHOTOS BY SYDNEY GOODREAU AND HEATHER WRIGHT Eight LCCVI Lancer track and field athletes are heading to the provincial championships. Jack Helps led the team at the West Region Championship in Windsor Friday and Saturday, winning Gold in the Men’s Senior Javelin. He beat the field with a throw of 55.94m to earn his place at the championships in London

PHOTOS BY SYDNEY GOODREAU/THE INDEPENDENT Jack Helps of LCCVI is one of several Lancers advancing to the provincial track and field championships in Day One of the West Regionals in Windsor. Helps earned gold in Javelin with a throw of 55.94m. James Grant of LCCVI won Silver in the Junior Men’s 1500m race at the West Regionals earning his berth

The main street of Forest is full of colour. Students from the area were invited by the Lambton Film and Food Festival to create chalk art drawings on the street in front of the Kineto Theatre where the festival is taking place this weekend. Here’s a few scenes from the day.

Lambton-Kent-Middlesex MP Liane Rood and Warwick Township Mayor Todd Case look out over the ice at the East Lambton Community Complex from an accessible viewing area Friday. Rood was in Watford to formally acknowledge the $100,000 grant provided by the federal government to make the ELCC accessible. The viewing ramp, a new accessible change room and accessible doors are among

Kaitlyn Ellwod and Sarah Land of LCCVI’s Earth Heroes club were out in Victoria Park Friday cleaning up garbage. Ten of the club’s 26 members cleared debris from the school grounds, at the club’s community garden on Glenview Drive and in Victoria Park as part of its Community Service Day. Next week, the club will be doing the first pickup

Goalie Nolan DeKoning was recognized as the most valuable player by the Alvinston Killer Bees as the team held its end of the season banquet Saturday. He was given the award by General Manager Brett Case, and Head Coach Joe Rombouts. The Killer Bees placed seventh in the nine team Western Ontario Super Hockey League with six wins, 17 losses

Heather Wright PhotoPetrolia’s Acting Mayor, Joel Field, was talking to one of Petrolia’s youngest soon-to-be voters during a Town Hall meeting April 26. Town council members spread out around Victoria Hall to listen to concern from about 75 taxpayers who came to raise issues ranging from development charges to taxes. Field was talking to members of the Petrolia Child Care

From Environment Canada: Special weather statement in effect for: Freezing rain and strong winds Monday and Monday night. A messy mix of wintry precipitation is forecast to develop Monday. Precipitation may begin as a brief period of snow or ice pellets before transitioning to freezing rain and then rain showers or drizzle as temperatures rise above zero. A few millimetres

As Lambton prepares for freezing rain, Lambton Public Health has issued a cold alert. Environment Canada has a freezing rain warning in effect for the county with snow and ice beginning to fall this afternoon. Officials say there will be a prolonged period of freezing rain leading to significant ice build up in some areas of up to 20 millimeters.

Daniel Gibson’s first career PJHL hat trick led the Petrolia Flyers to a 6-3 win over Exeter Thursday night at Greenwood.   It was Petrolia’s largest offensive output of the season, eclipsing the previous high of five goals  in a game. Gibson, from Wyoming, is now on a three-game goal scoring streak with five tallies in his last three contests.

Blake Ellis/Local Journalism Initiative Photos When you need to celebrate, what is the best way? A parade of course. The Petrolia Lions Club had a good reason to hold a parade as it marked its 90th anniversary. Community groups such as Parents for Parks, Lambton Young Theatre Players and the neighbouring Wyoming Lions came out to celebrate Saturday. The club

Instead of vehicles, employees of MacFarlane Chevrolet Buick GMC in Petrolia were selling lemonade, hamburgers and hotdogs as part of the second-annual Big Squeeze on Aug. 3 to raise money for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Sarnia-Lambton. MacFarlane’s staff, from left, Paul Galizia, his daughter Sophia Galizia, Ronnie Sheppard, and Amy McKichan, along with Jenny MacFarlane from M&M Meats