News from around St. Marys.
Members of Council, Town employees and members of the Someone I Know campaign were on hand to commemorate the donation of $300,000 from the Town to the St. Marys Memorial Hospital Foundation “Someone I Know” campaign. Some of this money was put toward the purchase of 21 beds and a new state-of-the-art tub. Photo by…
By Julia Schneider Audiences seeking reassurance that the show must go on after Stratford’s opening night’s unprecedented cancellation of the season opener The Tempest due to a bomb threat responded to the opening of The Music Man the next day with explosive adulation. What a performance it was! From the rousing opening number Rock Island…
By Joel Azzano STRATFORD – On Tuesday, May 22 the DCVI Senior soccer season ended. The girls and boys teams started off the day against the strong St. Mikes Warriors and lost 8-0 and 4-0, respectively. Unlucky bounces led to the Huron-Perth losses. Moving on to the second games of the day, the Senior girls…
By Jennifer Thorpe St Marys is home to a famous couple who are not above turning heads during the Baseball Hall of Fame’s annual induction weekend. The Thursday night crowd is often quite distracted by a handsome pair of ospreys who have built their nest upon the field light. Happily, the busy pair remain nonplussed…
About 100 golfers take part Saturday at St. Marys G&CC By Pat Payton Stew Grant’s team can always reflect back fondly on a couple of holes they played very well Saturday at St. Marys Golf and Country Club. Grant and teammates Scott Lobb, Chris Connolly and Troy Carter birdied the always-tough par 4 No. 3…
Former Lincs’ goalie nows plays pro hockey in South Korea By Pat Payton It’s been quite the hockey journey for former St. Marys Lincolns’ goalie Matt Dalton. And it’s far from over for the 31-year-old Clinton native. Dalton was guest speaker following the Lincs’ annual ‘Golf Day’ dinner at St. Marys Golf and Country Club…
By Pat Payton LONDON – The next star distance runner at St. Marys DCVI showed his stuff here last week at the 86th annual WOSSAA track and field championships. Grade 9 student Ethan Aarts won both the Midget boys’ 1,500-metre and 3,000-metre races at TD Waterhouse Stadium on the University of Western Ontario campus. Aarts…
By Pat Payton SPRINGFIELD – The Veterinary Purchasing Midget girls opened their Huron-Perth Fastball League schedule with a convincing 20-3 victory over the home-town Brewers here Monday, May 21. The visitors scored seven runs in both the third and seventh innings. The rally in the third gave the Vet. Purchasing squad a commanding 10-0 lead.…
St. Marys Juggernauts have jumped out to a terrific 3-0 start to their second season in the Second Division of the Western Ontario Soccer League (WOSL). After a strong fourth-place finish in the same division in 2017, this young Juggernaut team is showing that it has the talent and pace to improve on last year’s…
St. Marys Horticultural Society is holding its 21st annual Fair this coming Saturday, June 2nd, from 8.30 am to 1 pm. Gardeners wait for this event as the 20 plus vendors have something different that can make your flower beds more colourful and attractive. You will be able to find a variety of bird houses…