Tag: kids
As pandemic babies enter kindergarten, school officials eye development ‘gaps’
London-area children born during the COVID-19 pandemic in both school boards are getting some extra help in the form of pop-up clinics as they prepare to enter kindergarten this fall
Police, volunteers search Lake Erie for missing Port Stanley swimmer
PORT STANLEY â Police launched an extensive search through Lake Erie around this popular beach town after a swimmer entered the water on Sunday afternoon and didn’t resurface. It was about 2:30 p.m. when the main beach â typically filled with huge crowds on sunny summer weekends â was cleared. Six Ontario Provincial Police cruisers, […]
Paisley comes together to celebrate 150 years
Lawrence Gregg has called Paisley home for all 84 years of his life, and in that time as a resident, business owner, farmer and school bus driver he has come to know a lot of people. On the weekend as the small central Bruce County village marked its 150th anniversary with a giant Homecoming celebration, he […]
Hundreds take part in Meaford Harbour 5-km run/walk
By the time the Meaford Harbour 5-km run and walk began at 9 a.m. on Saturday, the sun was beating down and the temperature had passed the 20 degrees Celcius mark. But that didn’t stop a team of five dedicated Meaford firefighters from taking on the race, each wearing a near complete set of bunker […]
‘We were chosen’: 122 newborns, one couple’s epic foster care journey
Don and Nancy Matthews, now in their 70s, fostered a small village of infants over the years. Only reluctantly has the Southwestern Ontario couple stopped. LFP’s Randy Richmond reports STRATFORD â Nancy Matthews always wanted a lot of babies. The love they need, the love they give â she can list any number of reasons […]