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The LCCVI Lancers Boys’ Hockey team plays for the Lambton-Kent Championship this afternoon. The team punched its ticket with a 10-1 win over Wallaceburg. They take on North Lambton out of Forest Wednesday afternoon at 2pm at the Greenwood Recreation Centre.

  The Petrolia Oilers will play for an OMHA Atom “B” championship in the days to come. They punched their ticket to the final round winning three straight games against Ingersoll in the semi-finals. The series clincher was a 4-0 win in Ingersoll on Sunday following a 4-3 victory at home last Friday night. The Oilers have now won four

FROM LAMBTON PUBLIC HEALTH Lambton’s Medical Officer of Health has issued a COLD WEATHER ALERT for Lambton County based on the latest forecast from Environment Canada that predicts the temperature to drop to -15°C tonight. The alert will remain in effect overnight only. The Medical Officer of Health will not issue a Cold Weather Alert termination. Lambton Public Health advises

You may notice some of Lambton County’s paramedics sporting blue epaulets. Paramedic Grant Purdy says they are hoping to raise awareness of prostate cancer. “Cancer affects everybody,” says Purdy. “We want to make cancer and prostate cancer more visible.” Purdy adds prostate cancer is very treatable so the paramedics hope to make the people they see think twice about getting

Enniskillen Township has a new set of wheels and they’re big. The township bought the new Cat 140M grader for just over $400,000. It has a carbide blade which helps chip the ice along the roads. The grader doesn’t have a steering wheel – it is pilot controlled similar to a joystick on a plane or video game. The new

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Photos by Sarah Barry

Two Alvinston ball players have been named top players at this summers Ontario Summer Games. Sydney Redick was named MVP at the Ontario Summer Games Softball Tournament pitching 21 innings in playoff rounds, three games back to back. In three playoff games, she struck out 41 batters, gave up three walks and had five earned runs against her. Redick also

St. Clair Township has another champion to claim. While the world watched the Olympics, a local motocross star lit up the track to claim another race. Brigden’s Cole Thompson was named national motocross champion, Aug. 7. Thompson dominated the final event on the Rock Star Energy Drink Motocross Nationals tour in Barrie. The Brigden racer won the event for his

There was a lot of good baseball and $4,395 raised to help Sick Kids Hospital during the event. At the top, Brady McCrae dives back to third as his coach hollers instruction; left, Colin Haskins takes a big cut at a pitch right over the plate; above, Cam Major adds tickets to the raffle prizes and right, Archer Weed throws

The Independent Staff There was a whole new group of recruits learning the ropes at the Petrolia/North Enniskillen Fire Department this week. The department hosted its second Junior Firefighter camp of the year. Earlier this month, the department hosted an all-girls camp. But this time around it was a co-ed camp. The teens learn everything from rolling hoses to auto

Petrolia tennis booster Matt Mueller has found another way to promote tennis. He’s designed a program and a website called Play It Forward to encourage people to get out and play the game. “It’s pretty much exactly the same thing as paying it forward except you play tennis with someone. Then they have to play with someone else and then