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The Sarnia Journal trivia challenge

1 - What zodiac sign is usually symbolized by two human figures? 2 - This Monday (Sept.

Concert to benefit breast cancer survivors a family affair

Cathy Dobson Music has always brought family and friends together for Michelle Weiss. Husband Al is a retired high school music teacher and has played sax in countless bands.

Toll booth switch to help local traffic flow on bridge approach

Journal Staff A pilot project is underway at the Blue Water Bridge to make it easier for local drivers to cross into the U.S.

It’s really happening – the demolition of Sarnia General Hospital about to begin

Troy Shantz The job of removing asbestos from the former Sarnia General Hospital building and adjacent nursing residence will begin next week, the first step in the site’s long anticipated redevelopment.

Self-taught Bright’s Grove golfer lands U.S. golf scholarship

Troy Shantz Brett McGugan is teeing off this fall on a $30,000-a-year golf scholarship at Michigan’s Adrian College. Not bad for a 20-year-old from Bright’s Grove who had never taken a golf lesson in his…

COLUMN: It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a humongous ‘flying boat’

Phil Egan It was an early autumn day in Sarnia with only a slight haze in the air. Across the city of 18,000, students hurried outside from classrooms. At Sarnia Collegiate, the campus was crowded…

Another season down

Gord McKay throws a bowl last week during an end-of-the-season game at the Sarnia Lawn Bowling Club. With him are Stan Dros, left, and Burke Carson.

Language of marketplace creeping into health-care system Sir: Bluewater Health’s only hospital in Sarnia is not a retail outlet.

A frank discussion about poverty at next Sarnia Speaks

Tara Jeffrey Lauren Duncan wants people to have a little more compassion when looking at poverty in this community. “I just want that whole stigma removed,” said the 25-year-old mother of two.

GUEST COLUMN: Let kids learn about nature by exploring fields and forests

Michael Kent Can your children name more animals from Africa than they can from their own backyard? I am only in my late twenties but can remember growing up in Corunna when nearby fields, woodlots,…