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Some of you listening to this may have seen the film Selma. It depicted Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders in the fight for voting rights. The violence that took place at Selma helped lead to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Parts of the film were controversial: historians objected to how it depicted President Lyndon Johnson as less supportive of civil rights than he actually was. The national civil rights movement didn’t just begin with the Montgomery Bus Boycott or ...

Warsaw hires Director of Tourism to Encourage Tourism Growth in both the Town & County The Town of Warsaw is pleased to announce that Mr. Bob Bailey III is now serving as PT Director of Tourism for Warsaw! Bob is a 40-year banking veteran, having recently served for 10-years as the President of Peoples Community Bank. He continues to serve the successor, C&F Bank as a senior banking officer. He holds a B.A. from Washington and Lee University and an M.S. in Public Administration from George Wash...

Head back to the past with old-time radio A wealth of radio shows from the 1930s through 50s, the golden age of the medium, are available free online. Miguel Porlan/The New York Times. by Barry Yourgrau (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- In the image and video cacophony of our world, there’s an old-fashioned medium that rouses and works with our own powers of imagination, one that suits these cooped-up inner-world days of ours. It’s radio drama, especially from its golden age, in the 1930s through the ’5...

Head Back to the Past With Old-Time Radio A wealth of radio shows, constructed from dialogue and sound effects, and with a touch of narration and music, is free on the internet. Credit...Miguel Porlan Feb. 20, 2021 In the image and video cacophony of our world, there’s an old-fashioned medium that rouses and works with our own powers of imagination, one that suits these cooped-up inner-world days of ours. It’s radio drama, especially from its golden age, in the 1930s through the ’50s, whe...

Article content London Bridge Child Care Services has been selected as the child care provider for the new Gregory A. Hogan Catholic school, which will be built on a parcel of land on The Rapids Parkway in Sarnia. The new school is being built in order to accommodate the growing number of students enrolled in Gregory A. Hogan’s French immersion program. While the French immersion students will inhabit the new facility, the population of Sacred Heart Catholic School will move to Gregory A. Hog...

Publishing date: Feb 19, 2021  •  February 19, 2021  •  1 minute read  •  Volunteers with the Sarnia Hindu Society, pictured here giving a cheque to the Inn of the Good Shepherd’s Myles Vanni in July 2020, were among numerous Lambton County groups honoured with Ontario Volunteer Service Awards at a virtual service on Feb. 17. File photo/Postmedia Network Article content The Ontario provincial government paid tribute to 189 dedicated community members from Lambton County on Feb...

Article content St. Clair Township council wants a Chinese glass company to build a $380-million plant in the municipality. Councillors agreed on Feb. 16 to send a letter of support to Xinyi Glass Canada, encouraging the company to “strongly consider” locating the new plant within St. Clair. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Council seeks to bring glass plant to St. Clair Township Back to video Earlier that same day, the company said it was “i...

Article content A $200,000 grant from the province will allow Sarnia-Lambton Rebound to work with partners to create a new diversion program for youth involved in sexual assaults. Project 1 in 3 takes its name from the number of women and girls who will experience sexual violence in their lifetimes, Rebound said. The agency’s partners are the Sexual Assault Survivor’s Centre Sarnia-Lambton and the Lambton Police Services Board, which applied for the provincial community safety and policing ...

Article content A $200,000 grant from the province will allow Sarnia-Lambton Rebound to work with partners to create a new diversion program for youth involved in sexual assaults. Project 1 in 3 takes its name from the number of women and girls who will experience sexual violence in their lifetimes, Rebound said. The agency’s partners are the Sexual Assault Survivor’s Centre Sarnia-Lambton and the Lambton Police Services Board, which applied for the provincial community safety and policing ...

YMCA childcare centre expanding in Sarnia A child care centre expansion underway at the YMCA Jerry McCaw Family Centre in Sarnia will add needed spaces for infant care when it opens later this year. Author of the article: Paul Morden Publishing date: Feb 04, 2021  •  February 4, 2021  •  2 minute read  •  Work continues on a nearly $1.2-million expansion and renovation of child care facilities at the YMCA Jerry McCaw Family Centre in Sarnia. The expansion, including 10 additi...