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• Sarnia to mull Centennial Park land sale as humane society eyes new shelter

  14-06-2026 23:22 via theobserver.ca
  
  A parcel of Sarnia’s Centennial Park could be up for sale.A report going to council June 22 recommends declaring a 1.2-hectare parcel on the park’s northern border surplus.The move is connected to Sarnia and District Humane Society plans for a new shelter, Mayor Mike Bradley said. “That’s what’s driving it.”The land parcel is beside the existing humane society site, built on parkland given for that project in the 1980s.It’s one of several parcels on the
  
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• Sarnia considering declaring surplus Centennial Park land parcel

  14-06-2026 23:22 via theobserver.ca
  
  A parcel of Sarnia’s Centennial Park could be up for sale.A report coming to city council June 22 recommends declaring the 1.2-hectare parcel on the park’s northern border surplus.The move is connected to Sarnia and District Humane Society plans for a new shelter, said Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley.“That’s what’s driving it,” he said.The land parcel is beside the existing humane society site, built on parkland given for that project in the 1980s.The parcel is als
  
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• Banners, lighting planned for Sarnia's downtown 'waterfront district'

  14-06-2026 21:39 via theobserver.ca
  
  Draft designs for banners for Sarnia’s downtown call it “the waterfront district.”“We just think the waterfront is such a unique part of our downtown and something we’d love to capitalize on,” said Mia Clarke, one of the chairs of a 50-plus-member downtown business collective.The group has $100,000 from the city, allocated in budget deliberations last fall, to put up the banners, string lights throughout the core, as well as add more flowers, and art wraps on
  
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• Banners, lighting eyed for Sarnia's downtown 'waterfront district'

  14-06-2026 21:39 via theobserver.ca
  
  Draft designs for banners for Sarnia’s downtown call it “the waterfront district.”“We just think the waterfront is such a unique part of our downtown and something we’d love to capitalize on,” said Mia Clarke, one of the chairs of a 50-plus-member downtown business collective.The group has $100,000 from the city, allocated during budget deliberations last fall, to put up the banners, string lights throughout the core, as well as add more flowers, and art wrap
  
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• Sarnia territorial acknowledgment not about land claims: working group head

  14-06-2026 16:48 via theobserver.ca
  
  Sarnia’s proposed territorial acknowledgment update is not about land claims, says the chair of a city working group.“When the territorial acknowledgment refers to rights, those are treaty rights which are enshrined in . . . Section 35 of the Constitution,” said Brad Brownlee, with Sarnia’s UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) committee.“So that’s what it’s referring to,” he said. “It’s not a case of
  
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• Sarnia territorial acknowledgment not about land claims: UNDRIP committee chair

  14-06-2026 16:48 via theobserver.ca
  
  Sarnia’s proposed territorial acknowledgment update is not about land claims, says the chair of a city working group.“When the territorial acknowledgment refers to rights, those are treaty rights which are enshrined in . . . section 35 of the Constitution,” said Brad Brownlee, with Sarnia’s UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) committee.“So that’s what it’s referring to,” he said. “It’s not a case of
  
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