Month: September 2024
Baranyai: Concert seat resales ticket to controversy
I’m old enough to have stood outside a Ticketmaster outlet in the wee hours, alongside the scalpers’ mules and die-hard fans in sleeping bags, waiting for the box office to open.
Cornies: B. Davison debacle result of bias in school board structure
There is an irony in the fact that Lester B. Pearson school for the arts and B. Davison secondary school sit side by side along Trafalgar Street near London’s Old East Village, separated only by a parking lot and a patch of grass.
N’Stars on brink of elimination as Rock take lead late in Game 3
The Oakville Rock only led for a little over three minutes Saturday night, but those three minutes mattered most at the end of the game. Rock captain Chris Corbeil scored with 3:20 left in the third period to give Oakville their first lead of the game, 7-6, and that’s how it would end Saturday night […]
Village Fair on at Bluewater Park in Wiarton
The Rotary Club of Wiarton’s Village Fair at Bluewater Park kicked off Friday evening promising a fun-filled Civic holiday weekend event. It’s the 83rd year the Wiarton Rotary Club has hosted the family-fun-orientated weekend at the park. Friday’s schedule of events included the midway plus the Rotary’s food and corn booths. Bingo captivated the evening […]
Homicide victim remembered as ‘happy-go-lucky’ woman
A 27-year-old homicide victim from Chippewas of the Thames First Nation is being remembered as a mother, sister and daughter who loved to sing and dance. “She was a happy-go-lucky girl,” Colleen McLaughlin said of her niece, Shaniqua Henry. “She didn’t care what people thought of her. She would dance and sing. She didn’t care […]
City’s jewelry stores being ‘targeted’ by thieves: brother of retailer who was shot
The brother of a London jeweller shot in an apparent carjacking or robbery attempt says he wants to see better police protection for the industry following a rash of violence involving jewelry stores in the city this year. Riham Kamil, the owner of RK Forever Jewellery on Wonderland Road, was shot after closing the store […]
‘He wanted everybody to be happy’: Friends remember groundskeeper
They came wearing red, ready to laugh and drink and, most of all, remember. Around 60 people packed the patio at the Roxbury Bar and Grill Friday to honour Garnet Prydie, 56, who was fatally struck by a tow truck in an alleged hit-and-run outside a fast-food restaurant at Wellington and Southdale roads on July […]
Appeal Court overturns one of London officer’s two convictions in woman’s death
Ontario’s top court has quashed a London police officer’s conviction for criminal negligence causing death in the 2016 custody death of an Indigenous woman, but ruled a second conviction will stand.
Early demand for COVID shots for tots encouraging: London-area health unit
London public health officials are applauding an encouraging early response to the infant and toddler COVID-19 vaccine rollout, booking more than a week and a half of appointments on opening day.
Country stars rev up championship weekend at Delaware Speedway Sept. 22
Two of Canada’s hottest country acts will be at Delaware Speedway in September to launch the year’s biggest car racing weekend.