Raise your voice, improve your health: Singer, nurse start community choir
A Southwestern Ontario vocalist is partnering with a community health agency to promote group singing as a form of therapy for both mental and physical health.
‘Don’t be afraid to make mistakes,’ Repair Café repairman says
Paul Vanar bent over his workbench and tinkered with a broken wind-up toy horse, perhaps 75 years old. Lorraine Rutherford brought him the toy to fix. It’s been broken for a long time but its sentimental value was too great to part with it. It belonged to her late husband Jim Rutherford, whom […]
Trio charged after shooting at east-end home: London police
Three people are facing weapons charges after a shooting early Saturday at a home in London’s east end. London police say three adults went to a home on Sanders Street, near Hamilton Road and Highbury Avenue, shortly after midnight on Saturday. One suspect knocked on the door and told the occupant they were looking for […]
Two seniors killed in separate weekend crashes across London region
Two seniors are dead after separate crashes on rural Southwestern Ontario roads Saturday, including one involving a pedestrian. A 72-year-old Chatham resident was rushed to hospital, where they later succumbed to their injuries, after a two-vehicle crash in western Elgin County Saturday afternoon. Paramedics, Dutton-Dunwich firefighters and Elgin OPP officers responded to the crash involving […]
Nursing home resident hit with fraud worries, big rent increase: Family
An elderly woman living at a Southwestern Ontario retirement home where police allege a fraud duped several people out of more than $50,000 is facing a new stressor, her family says â an increase that would more than double her rent. Miranda Guitard said her husbandâs 90-year-old grandmother, who has been diagnosed with dementia, became […]