News from around St. Marys.
By Julia Schneider Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a play that lends itself to many different adaptations and interpretations. Originally scheduled to open the Stratford Festival season May 29 but postponed due to a bomb threat, its opening Sunday raised questions about a new twist on the classic. Two years ago eminent Canadian writer Margaret Atwood…
By Pat Payton It didn’t take St. Marys Jr. ‘B’ Lincolns long to start signing players for the 2018-19 GOJHL season. Just one day after receiving their cards from the Ontario Hockey Association, Lincs inked seven players at a team barbecue Saturday. Director of Hockey Operations Jim MacEachern announced that Lincolns have also committed to…
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.…