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  The money will help study the physical demands of playing the drum. “Such teachers have a big potential for impact on student behaviour, so I thought this was pretty intriguing,” says Nadia Azar, a kinesiology professor. She’s received a $20,000 USD grant to delve into the reasons instructors do or don’t offer their students training on how to prevent playing-related injury. “I’m hoping to be able to interview 30 drummers and analyze the data and present it at a few conferences,” Azar says. She says injuries develop while spending hours training intensively. “The two ...

Work resumes on Ravalli County Airport expansion The Ravalli County Airport will have to be closed down to air traffic while the shift is made to the new runway alignment. and last updated 2021-03-11 11:47:06-05 HAMILTON — Work is back underway on the expansion of the Ravalli County Airport. But in a few weeks, the facility will have to be closed down to air traffic while the shift is made to the new runway alignment. Lengthening the main runway at the airport northeast of Hamilton has been a project more than 25-years in the making. But now, with the return of good construction weather...

The S’Aints 2020 Sleighing Hunger concert raised $80,000 from ticket sales, CD sales, music downloads, and various local sponsors’ contributions. The funds were presented to the Windsor Essex Food Bank Association ($50,500), Chatham’s Outreach for Hunger ($25,000) and the two St. Clair College student food banks Student Representative Council-Windsor ($3,000) Thames Students Incorporated-Chatham ($1,500). “The fabled and long-standing generosity of our community may not surprise me much any longer, but its’ phenomenal degree certainly did astound me this year,” said St. Clair Coll...

March 4, 2021   It was a record setting fundraiser for local food banks thanks to musical group The S’Aints. In conjunction with St. Clair College, the band staged its 2020 Sleighing Hunger concert on December 18th. The virtual concert used ticket and CD sales, music downloads, and and local sponsorship deals to raise $80,000. The proceeds have been spread around Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent with $50,500 going to the Windsor-Essex Food Bank Association and $25,000 for Chatham’s Outreach for Hunger. The remainder is being donated to student food banks at the two college campuses in Wind...

Article content The historic Capitol Theatre in downtown Windsor was centre stage in a provincewide celebration of Ontario and front-line health-care workers on New Year’s Eve. “So many of these big specials gravitate towards major cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal,” said director and co-producer Barry Avrich. “We really wanted to find a wonderful place in Ontario to give people a look at a different place they hadn’t seen.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Capitol Theatre featured live in Ontario's New Year's Eve show Bac...