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Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review Participants in the Blackburn Center’s 2019 Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event head out from St. Clair Park in Greensburg.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The Blackburn Center’s annual walk against gender-based violence is returning after a hiatus with a new name and format. Formerly called Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, the event has been rebranded as Walk a Mile in Their His Her Our Shoes to reflect the universality of intimate partner violence. “We certainly want the even...

  WINDSOR, ONT. -- The Town of LaSalle is improving and enhancing the parkland located at St. Clair Park this year. The park is located between St. Clair Avenue and Betts Avenue, just off of Normandy Street. The project is expected to cost $150,000, and is included in the town’s 2021 Budget. “All major work for the project at St. Clair Park is expected to take place in 2021. We plan to complete the tender for the playground equipment in March or April,” said Mark Beggs, manager of roads and parks. “The park will be closed to the public between June and September when most of the...

The Town of LaSalle is planning to improve and enhance St. Clair Park located between St. Clair Avenue and Betts Avenue this summer. The plan includes installing a new playground structure including components like a swing, slide and balance feature for children between the ages of 18 months to 12 years old. The structure will be accessible, meeting the Accessibility for Ontarians Disability Act (AODA) requirements. In addition, an engineered wood fiber base will be installed under the play equipment. It also includes the installation of a multi-use pathway, a fenced-in basketball court that ...

Shirley McMarlin | Tribune-Review The little food pantry in the South Pennsylvania Avenue parklet is one of three in the city.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. People tend to stay indoors more in the winter, but Rick Steele is hoping folks will take a walk to one of Greensburg’s three little food pantries to drop off a few supplies. The need is just as great in cold weather as it is in warm weather, said Steele, president of Greensburg Volunteer Fire Department, whose junior firefighters founded the pr...

Eight minutes changed the course of 2020. It was Memorial Day. May 25. George Floyd was being arrested by Minneapolis police outside of a grocery store after authorities received a 911 call that someone paid with a counterfeit bill. The caller told authorities the man was acting erratically. Floyd, who is Black, matched the caller’s description of the suspect. Minneapolis police officers responded and handcuffed Floyd. Shortly thereafter, Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, was caught on camera kneeling on Floyd’s neck on the curb of the city street. Floyd pleaded with Chauvin, gasping t...