• Nearly 100,000 votes in salt-spreaders naming contest

    The names are in for a pair of school board salt-spreaders in Sarnia-Lambton and Chatham-Kent. The truck-mounted ice melters, used to keep paved schoolyards safer at a cheaper cost than plowing, are Mr. Melt in Sarnia-Lambton, and Ice, Ice Salty in Chatham-Kent. More than 99,000 votes were cast in a contest that pitted 83 name suggestions from classrooms, the Lambton Kent District school board said. A Grade 6 class from Sarnia’s Rosedale elementary public, and kindergartners from Chatham&r
  • Jazz trio playing Sarnia Concert Association anniversary show

    There’s something about jazz violin that’s comforting for Drew Jurecka. “It’s what I got started with,” said the Toronto musician, classically trained at the Cleveland Institute of Music. The former Humber Polytechnic instructor who composes and produces music – including co-producing and playing on Justin Gray of Toronto’s recent Grammy-winning Indian jazz fusion album, Immersed – also plays viola, mandolin, clarinet, saxophone and the accordion-l

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