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• Federal funding enhances food and beverage research at Lambton College

  26-07-2025 20:16 via theobserver.ca
  New lab equipment will help boost food and beverage research at Lambton College. The college in Sarnia received $200,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada this month to help add new equipment to its centres conducting food and beverage research aiding small and medium sized businesses. The college is known for its applied research in areas such as energy, water and bio-technology, “but not really for food,” said Mehdi Sheikhzadeh, Lambton’s se
  
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• French-owned company's Petrolia plant its first in North American

  26-07-2025 19:22 via theobserver.ca
  The first North American plant for a company owned by the French industrial Fétis Group has opened in Petrolia. Kinell Canada, which designs and makes wiring harnesses, cables, and box builds for specialty mobile equipment in the off-highway, special vehicle, marine, and distributed energy sectors, opened the site this month on Centre Street. The company bought Dintec, which was operating in Petrolia, said Matthew Slotwinski, chief executive of the Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership. &ld
  
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• Lambton College nursing school grads to gather for 50th reunion

  26-07-2025 18:11 via theobserver.ca
  Lambton College’s 1975 nursing school graduates just missed the chance to visit their old classrooms at their 50-year reunion set for Aug. 23. The classrooms were in the Sarnia college’s North Building, which came down in the spring to make way for a new residence building. Catherine Haldenby, a member of the class, said that when they reached out to the college some time ago about the reunion, they were told the old building that was home to the nursing school was scheduled to be de
  
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• Man beaten and sprayed with bear repellent in Canatara Park

  26-07-2025 18:10 via theobserver.ca
  A man who intervened in a confrontation Thursday evening in Sarnia’s Canatara Park was taken to hospital after he was sprayed with bear repellent and then kicked and punched by a group of attackers. A group of men in pickup trucks entered the park around 7:30 p.m. and the man was attacked after trying to deescalate a situation, Sarnia police say. One man went to one of the trucks and returned with a black handgun tucked into his waistband, police said. The man was punched in the face and a
  
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