Articles By: Joe Burd

Get The Ball Rolling marks 5th anniversary with performances from Big Wreck along with Bleeker Ridge and Autumns Cannon

Get The Ball Rolling is set for June 8, 2013, at Stokes Bay with Big Wreck headlining this year's event.

Photography courtesy of Kerry Belliveau, Kerry’s Klips A staple of the city’s summer festival season, this year’s Get The Ball Rolling charity concert event is gearing up for another epic bash by bay in June. On Saturday, Jun. 8, 2013, Sarnia Connects will host the highly anticipated event’s coming of age 5th anniversary for testicular [...]

Indiefest organizers reaching out to local businesses for additional sponsors to help support planned summer festival

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Sarnia’s newest concert series featuring independent artists from across the nation – Indiefest 2013 – set to culminate with a one-day outdoor festival in August is shaping up to become one of the region’s most hotly anticipated events of the summer. With that, an endeavor and effort of this scale with the inherent propensity of [...]

Sarnia Indiefest 2013 concert series and festival just around the corner, local anticipation mounting

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Sarnia Indiefest 2013 seems to be just what the doctor ordered and markedly in time to fill the immense void left behind by the hiatus of Sarnia’s big boy festival Rogers Bayfest. To be certain, festival organizers insist Sarnians and Indie music have some very impressive qualities in common, qualities that aren’t just limited to [...]

If Bayfest’s hiatus has got you down, come ‘Rock The Park’ at London’s Harris Park in July

Rock The Park 10th Anniversary

The announcement earlier this week that Sarnia’s preeminent annual music festival Rogers Bayfest will be on hiatus indefinitely has likely left a lot of heads spinning and hearts broken. After all, Bayfest has become the area’s largest entertainment tradition of the year and has filled Sarnia’s Centennial Park with tens of thousands each year since [...]

Sarnia woman says she inherited notebook with 50-year-old copy of KFC recipe

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Just when it appeared that KFC was finished in Sarnia, a local woman has come forward claiming she inherited a 50-year-old copy of Colonel Sander’s recipe for chicken batter last year from her grandmother and wants to go public with her rare find. Kelly Edwards, a 35-year-old student at Lambton College, said she was “astonished” [...]

Three drunks in as many night

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Sarnia Police were kept busy this past weekend with a trio of drunks. Police say it began on Friday, Jan. 18 just after 10 p.m. when police responded to a noisy party complaint in the 800-block of Devine Street. Police were also called to this same address back in November for the same reason. Officers [...]

Routine traffic stop yields two arrests and a cache of cocaine worth $17,650

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Sarnia police say a routine traffic stop last night lead officers to a significant amount of cocaine and two arrests. Members of the Vice Branch said today the “dramatic” traffic stop happened on the off ramp of Highway 402 onto Indian Road late yesterday afternoon just before 5 p.m. Police said the occupants of the [...]

Update: Fatal collision January 7 involving 10-year-old girl

Sarnia Police have released additional information to the public today stemming from their ongoing investigation into yesterday’s (Tuesday) fatal collision involving a 10-year-old girl. The accident happened just before 2 p.m. at the intersection of Cathcart Boulevard and Murphy Road in Sarnia. Police said Jillian Keck, 10-years-old, was taken to hospital from the scene but [...]

Sarnia’s nightlife and entertainment weekly rundown from SarniaRocks.com for week of January 6, 2013

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LambtonShield.com and Michele Dionne, of SarniaRocks.com, have partnered up to provide our readers with the most accurate, thorough weekly guide to Sarnia’s burgeoning nightlife and entertainment scenes as well as information about charity and other non-profit events. Each week, LambtonShield.com updates its readers with the latest information about what’s happening in and around Sarnia-Lambton. Highlights [...]

Sarnia’s nightlife and entertainment weekly rundown from SarniaRocks.com for week of December 30, 2012

Community Calendar

LambtonShield.com and Michele Dionne, of SarniaRocks.com, have partnered up to provide our readers with the most accurate, thorough weekly guide to Sarnia's burgeoning nightlife and entertainment scenes as well as information about charity and other non-profit events. Each week, LambtonShield.com updates its readers with the latest information about what's happening in and around Sarnia-Lambton. Highlights [...]