YouTube site the mudder of all inventions
Pam Wright A muddy hobby has snowballed into a second career for Jeff Lacroix. For the past six years the Sarnia resident has been filming ‘mud bogging,’ and his posts to the Internet are generating…
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Whirlwind continues for Sarnia’s Laura Dally
Barry Wright After playing a key role in the University of Saskatchewan's national women's university basketball championship this year, Laura Dally is now wearing the maple leaf in the first phase of Team Canada’s training…
Heritage home in limbo
Journal Staff Bryan Trothen won the battle but lost the war. The Sarnia heritage advocate had appealed city council’s decision to lift an Ontario Heritage Act designation on a 149-year-old farmhouse at 166 Brock St.…
A safe place to meet for kids of warring parents
Tara Jeffrey When a family breaks apart, the effect on children can be detrimental.
Forever Plaid harkens back to simpler time
Cathy Dobson The rehearsal hall goes quiet for a moment while the four singers of the upcoming Forever Plaid focus on their parts. The room suddenly fills with four-part harmony so deep and full that…
City owns derelict hospital, court says
Journal Staff Sarnia is weighing its options after the Ontario Superior Court ruled it is the legal owner of the former Sarnia General Hospital buildings.
City gymnast lands full scholarship to NCAA university
Dave Paul Serena Baker has always had the right temperament to succeed in gymnastics, her coach says. “She’s steady,” said Dave Brubaker, of Bluewater Gymnastics. “She doesn’t get rattled … she doesn’t get nervous.
Mandaumin Church opens doors a final time
Heather Wright Special to The Journal The public is invited to see the inside of Mandaumin United Church one last time this weekend before the 135-year-old church closes it doors permanently on June 26.
Fort MacMurray donation approved
In the end, Sarnia did donate $25,000 to help fire-ravaged northern Alberta. But it took awhile.
Sarnia’s showmobile grounded
The curtain has fallen on Sarnia’s Showmobile. Council grounded the dilapidated portable stage on wheels last week after receiving an estimate of $86,000 for needed badly structural repairs that would take months to complete.