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This swanky-looking dining room with its palm trees and white linen was part of the Vendome Hotel, an impressive red brick building that opened in 1893 at the southeast corner of Front and Cromwell streets.

The Celebration of Youth Awards is the YMCA’s way of recognizing outstanding members of the next generation. Winners, who earn a cash prize, are selected for their commitment to community, being good role models for and excelling at what they do.

Cathy Dobson About a dozen off-duty firefighters spent this week digging a commemorative garden in front of the East Street fire hall. “It’s important to us that we honour those who have passed away,” said Cpt.

It was like a stranger had moved in. That is how dramatically little Jonah Henrikson’s personality changed overnight.

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A graffiti “artist” has been defacing property at Lakeshore and Murphy for more than two years now, and Brian Joyce has had enough. The latest vandalism was the roller-painting of his Co-operators insurance sign at 1117 Lakeshore Rd.

Sarnia’s Raymond Knoll snapped this recent photo of a green heron at Lake Chipican. It was the first sighting of the specie this year at the pond, which typically featuring four to six green herons, he said.

Point Edward is giving Sarnia a birthday present. The village has offered a gazebo to help the city mark its first 100 years as a city.

If not for those damn Yankees the Parliament buildings of Canada would have been built on Baird Street in Corunna, not some distant hill in Ottawa. The story of how Corunna nearly became the nation’s capital is not an urban myth. It really happened.

Like its creator, the ‘Would … Aye’ is a one of a kind.