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  LONDON, ONT. -- We’re in for a hot and humid weekend as temperatures soar above 30 degrees, leading the Middlesex-London Health unit (MLHU) to issue a heat warning for both Saturday and Sunday. Some ways that Londoners are beating the well above seasonal temperatures, is by visiting one of the city’s spray-pads. "I like when it is hot outside - it is just really refreshing," says 8-year-old Kacen who spent his Saturday under the spray pads at Gibbons Park. Ray Walker, Public Health Inspectors with MLHU, says a heat warning is issued when two consecutive days reach 31 degrees, with ...

Justin Pickard’s laurels include the Best Americana award from last year's Dallas Observer Music Awards and, maybe more important, the respect and admiration of every musician who has come into contact with his music. Recently, Pickard trekked with his band down to Sun Studios in Memphis where luminaries such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins also recorded to lay down his next album, to be released on Fun Guy Records, the label of Dallas’ own luminary, the Reverend Horton Heat . Tin Man Travis Tin Man Travis is a country-blues artist who plays around regularly. When yo...

Joshua Ray Walker. Chris Bourke Three minutes into his haunting song “Voices,” the singer Joshua Ray Walker summons an astonishing falsetto from somewhere deep within his diaphragm. As his voice rings out, Walker’s face contorts into a grimace, as if reaching these notes takes a little bit out of him, physically, each time. Even fellow musicians aren’t always prepared for the experience of watching Walker perform live. “I just stood in front of the stage, let that voice wash over me, and I thought, ‘Oh my god,’” says Rhett Miller, the lead singer of the Old 97’s, of the firs...

The Sea Breeze Volunteer Fire Department in Irondequoit. The Sea Breeze Fire District in Irondequoit failed to keep basic accounting records or address questionable expenditures over several years, according to an audit report released recently by the state Comptroller’s Office. The audit, which the office completed in February, covered the period between Jan. 1, 2016 and Feb. 22, 2018.The 20-page document portrayed a fire district that had loose record keeping and unclear policies for spending money, which ultimately were not followed. For example, the district set a policy where...