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• Angling legend Steve Clapper bringing friends to Canadian Tire Mitchell’s Bay Open

  26-06-2026 23:02 via chathamdailynews.ca
  
  If area anglers win the upcoming Canadian Tire Mitchell’s Bay Open bass tournament they will have extra bragging rights.Four successful professional American anglers will be in the field of 85 boats that will be fanning out across Lake St. Clair during the tournament being held July 10-11.Ohio residents Alex Redwine and Jeremy Reese and Michigan residents Mark Modrak and Mike Trombly are fishing the Mitchell’s Bay Open for the first time thanks to U.S. freshwater fishing legend Stev
  
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• Model search attracts young Chatham-Kent people hoping to be discovered

  26-06-2026 21:16 via chathamdailynews.ca
  
  Plenty of young people took the opportunity to see if they have that special look at a model search held in Chatham on Friday.Toronto-based ANM Management was set up in the One Hundred King mall taking photographs and doing interviews people. The agency has done well here with two of its top models — Alexis Carrington and Emily Van Raay — coming from Chatham-Kent.Chatham resident Ashlyn Cormier, 26, who is friends with Carrington, was one of the people who came out Friday at the urg
  
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• CK VOTES: Steven Burritt running for council in Ward 5 Wallaceburg and area

  26-06-2026 18:16 via chathamdailynews.ca
  
  Name: Steven BurrittAge: 47Ward: 5 Why are you running for council? I decided to run because I think the smaller communities need better representation and not lose what little resources we have in our area, as the default should not be to accept Chatham is the best option especially when not everyone has the option of just going to Chatham. What are some important issues you plan to address if elected? I would like to address infrastructure: filling pot holes, maintaining and fixing roads and
  
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• Ontario can approve York1’s plans for Dresden dump site ‘at any time’

  26-06-2026 16:27 via chathamdailynews.ca
  
  The Municipality of Chatham-Kent is investing resources to prevent a Toronto-area company from reopening a former dump on the edge of Dresden, but its efforts could be for naught if the Ontario government exerts its power.Municipal officials held a public meeting in Dresden Wednesday to provide an update on where its fight to oppose plans by York1 Environmental Waste Solutions Inc. to operate a recycling and waste facility at 29831 Irish School Road, less than one kilometre from Dresden.While p
  
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• Maple City Climbing offers fun, challenge for all skill levels

  26-06-2026 16:02 via chathamdailynews.ca
  
  A rock climbing enthusiast turned his passion into a business by opening Maple City Climbing in Chatham.Owner Jacob Singleton was travelling to Windsor or London to rock climb, but after children came along he joked his wife “put the kibosh to me travelling so much to climb.”She suggested he start his own business.Singleton said he’s met people at other climbing gyms who live in Chatham who were also travelling to enjoy the activity.Patrick Giroux, 20, has become a regular at
  
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