Lambton OPP are investigating a break-in at the Watford Legion.
Police say when Legion members arrived at the Nauvoo Road building April 13, they called police reporting a break-in.
Police have found someone kicked in a window and entered the building early that morning. He took four cash boxes with an undisclosed amount of money.
Police describe the suspect as a white man, 20 to 30-years old, medium build wearing black and white running shoes, dark pants and a dark hoody with “Burnard Builders Inc” written down each arm.
Police are asking anyone in the area with surveillance video around the Legion to contact them.
Tips can also be left by calling CrimeStoppers.
Officials with the Watford Legion did not want to comment, however, the building has been closed since the break in. It’s scheduled to reopen Tuesday.
Some of the youngest members of the Bees Mafia get into the game Friday, April 19.
On an April Friday night, it seems everyone in Alvinston is at the arena.
But no one was there earlier than Lynn Mazurik. She wanted to make sure she had a front-row seat for the Game Four of the Western Ontario Super Hockey League final between the hometown Killer Bees and Tillsonburg. Mazurik was at the Brooke-Alvinston-Inwood Community Centre four hours before the puck dropped.
She waited in her car for a while, but when people started driving into the parking lot, Mazurik got out of the car so she could be first in line for tickets when the door opened a 6 pm.
She stood at the boards at centre ice for two hours waiting for the team to take to the ice. By then, people swarmed around her. The stands were full, people lined the boards, in some places three deep.
Killer Bees Head Coach Joe Rombouts
Then, the Killer Bees and Coach Joe Rombouts – resplendent in an eye-popping yellow and black blazer – emerged through the smoke from the dressing room into The Hive as the beat of the music pounded. And the crowd erupted. The noise from the self-proclaimed Bees Mafia is deafening.
It’s quite a change from the Alvinston Killer Bees and the WOSHLs humble beginnings. The Killer Bees were among the first franchises in the Senior Men’s Hockey League when it took to the ice in the 2021-2022 season. While the team had community support, it didn’t fare well on the ice – their record 1-18-1.
The WOSHL grew the next season and the Killer Bees put up a better record, albeit not a winning one at 6-17.
Year Three has turned out to be the Killer Bees season. The franchise put a great deal of effort into making hockey night in Alvinston more than just hockey. They added music, brought in other sports leagues, such as minor hockey and minor ball, to be involved in the action. The addition of the Petrolia Squires to the WOSHL brought an inter-county rivalry which drew big crowds in Alvinston.
And the product on the ice improved with some key signings. Mazurik can name the big contributors; Brennan Feasey, James McEwan and her favourite player, Franco Sproviero a former player with the OHL’s Sarnia Sting.
Lynn Mazurik of Alvinston was at the Brooke-Alvinston-Inwood Community Centre four hours before Game Four, just to get her standing-room only spot right at center ice.
Mazurik has been a hockey fan all her life. As a girl, growing up in Watford, she wanted to play. Her dad told her hockey wasn’t for girls. Friday, before the game started, the Lambton Attack – the area’s all-girls team – was honoured for placing second in the provincial finals. Mazurick was proud to see the young women on the ice.
She’s also is a big Sarnia Sting fan. Mazurik been a season-ticket holder for years and spent 18 hours in line to nab playoff tickets during the Stings 2023 playoff run.
The Sarnia Sting didn’t make the playoff this year, but Mazurik is savouring the post season in Alvinston. She loves the Senior play – as rough and tumble as it can get – but says there are two things which make the game so good; “Feasey and Sproviero, I have a soft spot for him.”
But you don’t have to be a life-long hockey fan to join the Bees Mafia. Just ask Rob VanDyk. Even though he’ll tell you he’s “never been a hockey man” when his company, RT Construction, was approached, he became a team sponsor and then he started coming to the games.
Fan Ron VanDyk
Friday night, he was sporting a black and yellow jersey and had a mini-Killer Bee painted on his face.
“This is more interesting than the NHL,” he said. “It’s more fun. There’s more action. I love it.”
VanDyk is also a member of the Alvinston Optimist. The club has been focusing its fundraising efforts on projects to improve the arena, so to arrive at the BIACC on a Friday night and struggle to find a parking spot, even along the roads leading up to the rink, makes him happy.
“To come here and see this arena packed the way it is…I’ve never seen this arena this full.”
Five days after members of the Aamjiwnaag First Nation became ill after high readings of benzene in the air, the INEOS Styrolutions plant is shutting down temporarily.
The company issued a brief statement Saturday afternoon.
“At INEOS Styrolution, ensuring the health and safety of our employees and community is paramount.
“We are temporarily shutting down our facility located in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, to perform maintenance and address a mechanical issue. We will resume operations once addressed.”
The news release did not say what mechanical issue the company is repairing, how long it will take the company to shutdown the plant, nor how long it might remain closed. It’s not immediately clear either if the shutdown was voluntary or ordered by the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks.
Tuesday, the employees of Aamjiwnaag First Nation, which is directly across the street from the plant, became nauseous and had headaches. Community activist Ada Lockridge notified the band that the air monitoring systems near the band office showed emissions of benzene were 22 times higher than the regulations allow. That prompted the band to close the buildings and send workers home. They remained working from home until Friday with the administrators warning parents children shouldn’t be at the playground and ball diamond there.
“The cause of these symptoms is directly related to the continuing and excessive levels of benzene emissions coming from the INEOS facility located directly across from the Band office, environmental office and the community playground,” Chris Plain said in a news release issued on Twitter Wednesday. He also called for the immediate shutdown of the plant.
