Archive for the ‘Feature’ Category

Free car seat clinics planned for May and June

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Not sure if your child car seat is installed properly? Lambton County’s Community Health Services department is hosting three separate car sat clinics in May and June, each designed to help parents and care givers the assurance that “all is good.” Locations, dates and times include: Petrolia: Saturday, May 4 10 a.m. to noon Greenwood [...]

China bound: Local delegation heading to far east for trade mission

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County of Lambton Warden Todd Case and Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership General Manager George Mallay, along with a representative from Lambton College are heading to China as part of a provincial trade mission that begins April 20. The one week trip includes participation in the Ontario-China Fuel workshop and attendance at the Beijing International Tech Transfer Congress.  Dr. Maike Luiken, [...]

The first of five Indiefest 2013 ‘Indienights’ kicks off this weekend with Toronto rockers Blurred Vision

Blurred Vision is an indie rock band from Toronto in Canada. A five piece made up of brothers Sepp (Vocal / Guitar), Sohl (Bass) with Joel Lightman (Keys / Vocal), Ben Riley (Drums) and not to forget  Mike Bongertman (Guitar / Vocal).

INDIEFEST 2013 officially kicks off the summer live music and festival season this weekend at Sarnia’s history-rich nightclub venue The Stubborn Mule with Toronto rockers Blurred Vision. The inaugural event slated to happen Apr. 20 is expected to be nothing less than epic and a party fit for a town that’s gained notoriety over the [...]

Lambton College partnering with public schools to develop ‘pathway’ for careers

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Lambton College and the Lambton Kent District School Board (LKDSB) are partnering to form a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) pathway for high-school students. There is an increase of STEM-related occupations opening in the Lambton County area, and the partnership is recognizing the need to prepare students to fill these roles. STEM is an [...]

The Show with David Burrows unveils epic ‘facelift’, features Doug Briney, Indiefest 2013, and Cheeky Monkey news

The Show with David Burrows featured weekly on LambtonShield.com

This week on The Show with David Burrows, The Show reveals its brand new, more visually stunning than ever “facelift” that, in our opinions, ups the ante when it comes to production quality and flexibility. Featured this week on The Show is a Skype interview with independent country star Doug “Alaskan Cowboy” Brinley from Anchorage, [...]

Flare training to be held this week at Sarnia Yacht Club

Flare training slated to happen Apr. 19 at Sarnia Yacht Club

Sarnia Police said the Sarnia Power and Sail Squadron will be conducting flare training, Friday, Apr. 19, at the Sarnia Yacht Club on Fort Street. The training will be conducted between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. and the flares being used, police say, will be white in colour.

OPINION: Property ownership should actually mean something

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OPINION: By Matt McEachran “Extremely disappointed in Council’s decision to allow farmers to continue to do whatever they want with the land they own … they should be forced to get approval from our government first to ensure too many trees don’t get cut down at once.” This mindless rant was found in the online edition [...]

The Show with David Burrows returning home to LambtonShield.com

The Show with David Burrows returns home to LambtonShield

Inset Photograph of David Burrows courtesy of Kerry Belliveau, Kerry’s Klips. LambtonShield.com is very excited and proud to announce that, starting this week on Apr. 17; The Show with David Burrows is returning home and will once again be featured as premium content on a weekly basis. David Burrows’ increasingly popular premium-but-astoundingly-free YouTube series ‘The [...]

Lambton County warns about link between flooding and well water quality

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  The county's Community Health Services Department is cautioning Lambton residents with private wells that high water levels and flooding conditions could make their water supply unsafe. Elizabeth Vang, public health inspector with Community Health Services, says heavy rainfall and snow melt could contaminate the drinking water supply with harmful bacteria. "If your well has [...]

New pipeline information software a product of local partnership

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  A new software program could save pipeline owners time in the field and money by providing detailed information about the line. There are hundreds of kilometers of pipelines under the ground in Sarnia-Lambton dating back 60 years or more. Marty Raaymakers of MIG Engineering has an entire basement of file folders and boxes of maps to [...]