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  Petrolia’s minor hockey players will be front and center this weekend as the local association celebrated 51 years of the game. Friday night, minor hockey players from every age group will parade through Petrolia’s downtown starting at 6 pm. Then many of them will end up at the Greenwood Recreation Center for the Petrolia Squires game against Tillsonburg. The

An Enniskillen Township teacher is the Lambton County Warden’s Citizen of the Month. Cathy Johnson has been a coach at North Lambton Secondary School for 29 years leading the volleyball, soccer, girls’ hockey, cross country and track and field teams. Johnson has also coached three adult and two student dragon boat teams. She’s also been active in minor hockey with

He shoots! He falls! The littlest players in Petrolia Minor Hockey, the Timbits, took to the ice at the Greenwood Recreation Centre Saturday. Minor Hockey is offering incentives to encourage more Timbits to come out to learn to play the game.   There aren’t as many little people lacing up for hockey on Saturday morning. Charlotte Wright Boyd of the

Aidan Vasey and his cousin, Nate Hussin, head for the finish line at the Petrolia Optimist Cross Country meet.   Aidan Vasey just wanted to be part of the team and his cousin knew just how to make it happen. Vasey is a St. Phillip’s Catholic School student who, according to his father, Joel, has special needs.  He likes to

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.

An LCCVI Grade 11 student is one of the first championship winners of the school year. Marlee Darrach, 15, took the women’s LSSAA Golf Championship at Sawmill Creek recently. It was Darrach’s first appearance in a championship event. ‘I was nervous, very nervous at first,” she says noting she wasn’t alone since all but one of the competitors were in

Petrolia Mayor John McCharles says as long as they’re not causing damage, skateboarders should be able to use the Farmers’ Market at night. Council recently heard from a resident who voiced concern about skateboarders using the area to play. Sharon Livingston told council she felt some of the skateboarders were displaying “bullying” behaviour and frightened her dogs as they walked.

Nicky Beatty and Chris Burdett will go just about anywhere to find a BMX bike park to try, but the Wyoming teens would rather stay at home. The pair, who travel to Sarnia, Watford and as far away as Toronto to bike, was among the crowd of 18 teens and pre-teens – and a handful of adults – who came

The Wyoming to Reece’s Corners Trail is not quite done yet, but their throwing a party to celebrate. A community group has been raising funds for a couple of years to build a trail for walking and cycling from the village to Reece’s Corners. Recently, Plympton-Wyoming Council gave the go-ahead to construct the $233,000 trail as the committee continued to

LCCVI will field both a senior and junior football team in the 2013 season. Last year, the Petrolia high school could only field a junior team because there were simply not enough seniors to form a team. But Rick Tremblay, coach of the junior Lancers, says this year the seniors will field an eight-man team in a rearranged league. “The

There are all kinds of things to do at the Plympton-Wyoming Fair, including wrestling.   Lesley Brumwell admits she’s not a farm girl but the president of the Plympton & Wyoming Agricultural Society says she loves the fall fair. “It brings the town together,” says Brumwell of the annual event, which begins Friday night. “Everybody gets to socialize…when you go

Brendan Trottier has a better idea of what it will take to make it to the Ontario Hockey League. The Petrolia hockey player was among a select group invited to the Sarnia Sting training camp recently. Trottier earned the spot after being drafted by the Sting in April. At just 16, Trottier knew going in it was a long shot