Sarnia news

• One person injured in Sarnia house fire

  20-06-2026 22:34 via theobserver.ca
  
  Michele Dionne said Saturday she was thankful for her neighbours on Davis Street.A fire that began around noon in the house the family has rented for many years sent one of two sons living there with her and her spouse to Bluewater Health with burns, but everyone else escaped uninjured, she said.Cause of the fire was being investigated by Sarnia Fire Rescue but Dionne said one of her sons was upstairs and discovered the fire she believes may have started on that floor.“He told us to get o
  
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• Small business grants giving nine Lambton County enterprises a boost

  20-06-2026 17:04 via theobserver.ca
  
  A small business grant program offered this spring by the Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership attracted more than 100 applications.The agency funded by Lambton County to attract jobs to the region and nurture local businesses, recently announced nine recipients of the small business support grants of up to $4,000 each.It was a “one-time delivery program we were lucky enough to be able to provide to the small business community” this year, said partnership CEO Matthew Slotwinski.The
  
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• Sarnia food bank cereal drive has its best year collecting more than 5,000 boxes

  20-06-2026 15:15 via theobserver.ca
  
  A reinvigorated cereal drive brought in a record haul for the food bank at the Inn of the Good Shepherd in Sarnia.Opening up its Cereal Dom-Inn-os drive paid off the Sarnia charity by bringing in 5,078 boxes in the event’s fifth year.“It was amazing,” said program manager Adrienne McPhee. “Our biggest year yet.”Previously, the drive involved local elementary schools volunteering to gather donations of boxes of cereal and line them up in the school hallway to knock
  
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