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• Lambton Shores retiree wins $1 million from Lotto 6-49 Gold Ball Draw

  20-03-2026 20:18
  A resident of Lambton Shores won $1 million from Lotto 6-49. Mark Gatschene won the prize in the lottery’s Feb. 18 gold ball draw, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. (OLG) said in a news release. The 65-year-old retiree said he has been buying lottery tickets for about 25 years and purchased his winning ticket at Points Preference Supermarket at the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, which is next the Lambton County municipality of Lambton Shores. It was his first large lottery prize w
  
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• Empty Bowls fundraiser returns to help fill Sarnia food bank shelves

  20-03-2026 18:50
  Empty Bowls has been allowing Sarnia-area residents to put something they love doing to work helping feed the hungry since 2008. The annual fundraiser for the Inn of the Good Shepherd and Lambton College Lion’s Heart student food bank returns April 9 to the college event centre where as many as 300 people will be able to select handmade ceramic bowls to enjoy soup made by a dozen local restaurants. Tickets for seatings at 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. are $40 and from the Inn  and its website, the
  
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• Watford library repairs starting soon

  20-03-2026 18:20
  Repairs to Lambton’s only remaining Carnegie library building are planned starting the first week of April. About $120,000 in foundation and brick repairs at the Watford library, built in 1912 with $6,000 from U.S. steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie, are expected to take four to six weeks, said Ryan Chamney, parks and recreation manager with the Township of Warwick. Most of the work, recently contracted to Corunna’s Innovative Construction, is interior foundation repair on the building&rsq
  
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• Exterior repairs to Watford's Carnegie library planned for April

  20-03-2026 18:20
  Repairs to Lambton’s only remaining Carnegie library building are planned for next month. About $120,000 in foundation and brick repairs at the Watford library, built in 1912 with $6,000 from U.S. tycoon Andrew Carnegie, are expected to take four to six weeks, said Ryan Chamney, parks and recreation manager with the Township of Warwick. Most of the work, contracted to Corunna’s Innovative Construction, is interior foundation repair on the building’s west side, Chamney said. &ld
  
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• Community group surveying Sarnia-Lambton to help it encourage 'healthy democracy'

  20-03-2026 18:06
  A non-partisan community group hoping to encourage more participation in Sarnia-Lambton elections is conducting a survey to help it understand how local residents engage with voting and civic life. Healthy Democracy: The People’s Table, Sarnia-Lambton, is hosting a public meeting March 26 at  6:30 p.m., at the Sarnia Lambton Chamber of Commerce office on Christina Street North to introduce itself and talk about the survey. “This initiative is about listening to the community,&rd
  
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• First Nations chiefs call for integrity probe into Sarnia councillor's comments

  20-03-2026 17:55
  Two First Nation chiefs near Sarnia have submitted integrity commissioner complaints about a city councillor. Walpole Island Chief Leela Thomas, and Kettle and Stony Point Chief Kimberly Bressette, each posted letters dated March 19 on social media, calling for integrity probes into Coun. Bill Dennis’s social media comments. After Wednesday Sarnia unveiled a new city hall welcome mural, backed by Sarnia’s United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) working
  
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• Meet Pepper, the recreation robot: Lambton care home's new addition dances, jokes, plays games and he's 'ticklish' too

  20-03-2026 16:44
  Pepper the robot dances, tells jokes, plays tic-tac-toe, and delivers birthday greetings and other messages to seniors living at Lambton Meadowview Villa. Pepper arrived at the 125-bed Lambton County long-term care home near Petrolia thanks to a grant from the Long-Term Care Ministry’s local priorities fund, said administrator Jennifer Beaubien. The home sought the funding after seeing information online about a Michigan university project that had robots interacting with individuals in ca
  
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