News from around St. Marys.
By Phil West As a youngster, I was born in and grew up in Oshawa, Ontario. A proud community as it should be … with the start of GM as we know it today. Robert Sam McLaughlin teamed up with Buick and later on Chevrolet to make vehicles for North America in the early 1900’s.…
By Laura Green A cast of thirty- two – some are new to the stage, some are new to Thistle Theatre and the rest are veterans, some just live down the street from the historical townhall now the home of Thistle Theatre on 135 Huron St. Embro, some drive from London, Innerkip, Ingersoll, Woodstock, Tavistock,…
By Greg Gormick Quite simply, it is a plan Oxford County commissioned me to produce to demonstrate how the overlapping and inadequate VIA Rail Canada and GO Transit services into Southwestern Ontario can and should be incrementally upgraded to high-performance rail standards. It includes new trains to increase comfort and reduce costs, track improvements to…
By Stewart Grant Life is busy. I’m sure that most of us feel this way. As well, it seems like each year goes by faster than the one before it. I’m 44, and it’s so hard to imagine that soon I’ll be closer to 50 than 40. How did this happen so quickly? At the…
With short bench, team wins three playoff games in a row in North Bay By Pat Payton NORTH BAY – It’s always a great way to end a season when you win your last game. The DCVI Senior girls basketball team, which played with a short bench all weekend, won the consolation title here at…
At OFSAA ‘A’ tournament in Belleville last week By Pat Payton BELLEVILLE – It was a very respectable showing for the DCVI Senior boys volleyball team here at the OFSAA ‘A’ championships this past week. Steve Chateauvert’s Salukis won three matches and lost three matches. Their tournament ended Saturday morning when they lost 3-1 in…
Last week in Goderich GODERICH – St. Marys DCVI swim team attended their first meet here last week and posted some strong results! The Salukis’ boys medley relay team of Eric Lagace, Sergio Garcia, Pepe Mantilla and Jake Pfaff claimed first place in the Senior division. Eric Lagace continued to dominate Senior freestyle events with…
The Middlesex swim team, with swimmers from St. Marys, Stratford and London participating, held an Inter-Club meet recently at the PRC. The Club, guided by head coach Brooke Heath, practices out of those three centres–St. Marys, Stratford and London. Over 130 swimmers belong to the Club, with about 50 competing at the PRC on Saturday,…
Thirteen top-three finishes in Strathroy recently By Pat Payton STRATHROY – Two firsts, 10 seconds and one third. It was a good day for Stonetown Karate Centre members here Nov. 17 at Strathroy Community Christian School. The event was the Strathroy Open Martial Arts championships. Some of the SKC members competed in three different competitions…
Lincolns honour Regional Silver Stick winning Dunny’s Atoms last Friday By Pat Payton It’s now up to the players to turn these close losses into GOJHL wins. That was the response from assistant GM Greg Smale when asked what it’s going to take to turn the St. Marys Lincolns’ fortunes around and make the Western…