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It has been a banner year for Sarnia authors, from sports to history, and children’s books to poetry. To help match local readers with local writers The Journal has prepared a compendium of 2014 titles.

George Mathewson Jen Levasseur is proof that miracles of medicine do happen. The Sarnia woman was a graduate of Lambton College and had snagged a dream job in I.T. at Ford of Canada in Oakville when death knocked on her door.

Journal Staff A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Ontario beekeepers who say their hives have been killed or damaged by neonicotinoid pesticides.

Heather Wright Special to The Journal The doors of Sarnia’s Coronation Park Day Nursery will close by Nov. 28, and 50 children will need to find a new place to stay.

Journal Staff Monique D’Arcy never expected to be a showstopper. In fact, there was a time in her life when the spotlight seemed distant, shrouded in the darkness of depression and despair.

A Sarnia man has been charged with multiple offences after being stopped for speeding on Modeland Road with a six-month-old child in the back seat The vehicle was clocked doing 118 km per hour in an 80 km zone on Sept. 4, Sarnia Police said.

A Sarnia cardiologist with an international reputation for excellence died last week while travelling in Spain. Dr. Bal Sahay, 73, had practiced in Sarnia since 1989 before retiring in 2012 from a distinguished career that took him around the world.

Journal Staff Sarnia’s Greekfest attracts crowds for a lot of reasons – the food, the music, the ouzo. But something else keeps them coming back to the tents erected in the St. Demetrios Church parking lot each year, says co-ordinator Ann Stirling.

George Mathewson Roger Laflamme has been dragging rocks from Lake Huron and adding them around his beachfront home on Devonshire Road for the past seven years.