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INDIEFEST returns to the Mule this weekend with EVERGLO and Running Red Lights

INDIEFEST (Part 3) returns May 18 with headliners EVERGLO and Running Red Lights

INDIEFEST continues its monthly live music concert series – in celebration of independent music everywhere – this weekend on the heels of two successful outings last month that included indie scene big kahunas Blurred Vision and Bobnoxious Rock. The next expected installment of INDIEFEST will happen tomorrow night at The Stubborn Mule, Saturday, May 18, and [...]

THE SHOW: St. Clair’s ‘A Family Affair,’ Hotel California, RIBFEST, world record for air guitar, and INDIEFEST

The Show with David Burrows for May 16, 2013

  This week on The Show with David Burrows, footage from a recent theatrical production of “A Family Affair,” by St. Clair Secondary School students along with a special mention to Erin Gabriel. This week’s footage also includes video from Hotel California’s tribute to The Eagles last weekend at The Stubborn Mule. David also talks [...]

Local radio station will have us trying to break ‘air guitar’ Guinness world record

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By AARON ZIMMER Marketing Manager, Blackburn Radio Sarnia It has been 13 years since Sarnia has been in the Guinness Book of World Records. In 2000, “The Big Kiss” took place at the RBC Centre and Sarnia broke the record for “Most Couples Kissing Simultaneously.” That record has since been broken. This summer, Sarnia will [...]

OPINION: Windmill power no matter what—even if it means killing eagle habitat?

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OPINION: By MATT McEACHRAN I don’t know about you, but I’m one of those people that like to pay a lot more for my hydro; it’s a small price to pay to save the environment. Hundreds of thousands of jobs lost due to Ontario’s high electricity prices?  No problem. An economy tanking in part because [...]

Fiddler on the Loose opens tonight to launch 2013 season at Victoria Playhouse Petrolia

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The Victoria Playhouse Petrolia 2013 Season opens on Wednesday, May 15th with the first preview show of this energetic new production that centres around the extraordinary talent of Fiddler Jesse Grandmont from London, ON and the supremely talented divas Stephanie Cadman (Fiddler, Step Dancer and Singer), Diane Chase (Canadian Country Music Star), and Janelle Murray [...]

THE SHOW: First Friday, Jessie J. Rabbit, INDIEFEST, Running Red Lights, and RETROSPECT

The Show with David Burrows for May 9, 2013

  This week on The Show with David Burrows, video footage from last weekend’s First Friday for the month of May in the downtown, featuring Jenn Kee’s performance at Cheeky Monkey. Also from First Friday, a myriad of display art by local artist Jessie J. Rabbit. The Show also includes a music video from red-hot [...]

Alvinston group honoured for volunteer efforts

On April 26th, a delegation representing the Alvinston Community Group travelled to Toronto to accept the prestigious “June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism” presented by the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration. This award is presented annually to up to 20 deserving individuals and groups from across Ontario. Recipients are recognized for “superlative volunteer [...]

Local author talks about little known chapter in area history

Want to know more about a little known, but intriguing chapter in Sarnia-Lambton’s history? Local author and historian Bob McCarthy joins “Wright to the Point” on TVCOGECO tonight (Friday, May 3) at 5 pm to talk about his new book, “Case 666. Travesty of Justice. The Elizabeth Workman Story”. If you miss the program tonight, [...]

THE SHOW: Footage from INDIEFEST, New Country Rehab, MARKURS, First Friday and more

The Show with David Burrows for May 1, 2013

  This week on The Show with David Burrows, a recap of the second INDIEFEST Indienight  (Part 2) that took place last weekend, Apr. 24, at The Stubborn Mule with video footage of all three independent bands that performed that night.  Included in the event footage is local band That Dirty Racket, London-rockers Zealots Desire [...]

Trip to China represents ‘one more step’ in promotion of Sarnia-Lambton business opportunities

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Three local-area representatives who recently participated in an Ontario Science and Technology Mission to China have returned with positive reports of the effort. They include Lambton County Warden Todd Case, Sarnia Lambton Economic Partnership General Manager George Mallay, and Dr. Maike Luiken, dean of Applied Research and Innovation at Lambton College. “We had a number [...]