Community

A local costume and accessories business has stepped up to help fill Noelle’s Gift Closets at schools across the Lambton Kent District School Board this holiday season, donating$1,200 worth of necessities.

Lambton Literacy’s holiday Give-a-Book campaign finished strong with with 3,786 new books delivered this year.

Volunteers and donors are hard at work all this week at The Inn of the Good Shepherd to ensure 1,200 local children have toys under the tree Christmas morning.

Students at Sarnia’s King George VI Public School’s Kiwanis Builder’s Club wanted to give back to the community this holiday season — so they decided to run a food drive for the month of December.

The Journal has partnered with the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Centre Sarnia-Lambton to feature their ‘Talk About it Tuesday’ video series, which sheds light on issues impacting the centre and community.

Free-throw competition helps boost donations for Inn of the Good Shepherd

Journal staff The United Way of Sarnia-Lambton has reached the 75% mark of the 2023 campaign. That’s $1,030,000 of the $1.4 million goal — slightly ahead of last year’s pace, says executive director Dave Brown.

Journal staff Lorena Macklin and son Joel were presented with a plaque by Adrienne McPhee, Programs Manager, The Inn of the Good Shepherd, and Dennis Loucks, Past President of the the Kiwanis Club of Sarnia-Lambton Golden K, on Tuesday, December 5 du