News from around St. Marys.
Beans come from Central and South America and Ethiopia By Pat Payton EMBRO – A fresher cup of coffee! That’s what owners Todd Pearson and Candice Irvine believe sets Kintore Coffee Co. apart. It’s a small grassroots company that specializes in roasting coffee from all over the globe. “The reason it’s a better coffee is…
Amateur bakers asked to put pandemic baking skills to patriotic use During the pandemic, many people have turned to baking as a way to relax, fill newfound free time and sustain their families and friends. With Canada Day just a few weeks away, baking now has a patriotic component. For the past three years, a…
Flag to fly all month By Spencer Seymour, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Town Council passed a motion at their meeting last week declaring June as “Pride Month” as well as flying the Pride Flag all month. The Town had received a request from Adrienne Adas, a Health Promoter from the Huron-Perth Health Unit, asking Council…
No risk to public-OPP On Tuesday May 26, members of the Middlesex County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), as well as the Middlesex OPP Major Crime Unit, OPP Forensic Identification Services (FIS) under the direction of the OPP Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) and in partnership with the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario and the…
On March 22, the Province of Ontario made provisions for certain child care centres to remain open to support health care and other frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Spaces are allocated in order of application and are only available to those on the list of workers eligible for emergency child care who have exhausted…
“This is the most random disease” By Stewart Grant Just as St. Marys residents were beginning to loosen up and sense a gradual return to normalcy, the Stonetown has been touched by two new positive cases of COVID-19. On Monday, Huron Perth Public Health updated their statistics to record the first new positive test in…
The idea of recording an album first came to the members of Corduroy Gordon shortly after they started jamming together 5 years ago; but it took two years for them to pen enough original music before they actually began the process at In Tune Audio, a Stratford recording studio. It took another 3 years to…
Former Lincs defenceman represented stars such as Beliveau, Staub, Lafleur and Howe By Pat Payton Jerry Petrie didn’t play pro hockey, but he ended up representing some of the biggest stars in the professional sports world. In the early 1970s, the former St. Marys Lincolns’ defenceman (1960-61) launched a business with a partner Gerry Patterson…
Gallery Launches Online Exhibit of Theatrical Masks From Stratford Festival Archives Following an unprecedented response to their first online art exhibit, the St. Marys Station Gallery is presenting a second online exhibit, ‘MASKS,’ as the COVID-19 restrictions continue. ‘MASKS’ is a comprehensive collection of two dozen masks created by celebrated designers and prop makers for…
A lawn game believed to be invented by the Vikings over 1,000 years ago By Pat Payton Mike Giesbrecht has a new venture these days, but it’s really an old game that the St. Marys man is trying to promote and sell. The game–which originated in Sweden–is called Kubb, and it’s for all fitness levels…