Tag: History
London Knights star on being named OHL’s top defenceman: ‘Really cool’
Sam Dickinson had the best offensive season by a London Knights defenceman in franchise history. That 29-goal, 91-point performance in just 55 regular-season games earned him the Max Kaminsky Trophy as the OHL’s top defenceman Thursday. He followed Rick Green (1975-76), Brad Marsh/Rob Ramage (1977-78), Bob Halkidis (1984-85), John Erskine (1999-2000), Danny Syvret (2004-05) and […]
Pottawatomi Spinners and Weavers Guild celebrate 50 years of Making in Bruce Grey
Fifty years ago, in 1975, Elinor Bartlett placed an ad in the newspaper. Six people replied to that ad looking for like-minded individuals who shared a love of spinning and weaving, and thus the Pottawatomi Spinners and Weavers Guild was born. The group recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. Fifty years of a prosperous community organization […]
OHL playoffs: London Knights gird for Round 3 rumble with old rival
This is Landon Sim’s annual rite of spring. The London Knights veteran forward is gearing up to face the Kitchener Rangers in the playoffs for a fourth straight year. He knows what to expect: tempers boiling over, increased levels of trash talk, ref-bashing, organizational angst and – if history holds true – some league intervention […]
Affordability, CBC, life sentences: BGOS candidates tackle the issues
The all-candidates meeting will be rebroadcast on Rogers
How the Great Lakes region inspired the first Earth Day
On the heels of the anti-war protests that were taking 1960s college campuses by storm, Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson was inspired to use that same momentum to create a protest so large that it would create an environmental movement.
An estimated 20 million Americans gathered on what would become known as Earth Day, with thousands of college campuses and high schools across the country engaged in the action.