Tag: Local News
GALLERY: LFP’s best September photos
Take a look back at September in and around London through the lens of London Free Press photographers: Wesley Fraser, 15 months old, crawls toward his parents at the Gibbons Park splash pad in London on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press)
Communities gather to observe National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation Chief Greg Nadjiwon stood behind a microphone in front of a sacred fire and spoke about the time he broke down crying in the halls of a former residential school near Algoma University. Dozens dressed in orange listened to the chief at the Gichi-Name Wiikwedong Reconciliation Garden near Kelso […]
Started from Alaska now it’s here, Pumpkinfest winner grown in St. Thomas with swapped seed
Saturday’s plumpest pumpkin hit the scales at Pumpkinfest 2023 in Port Elgin weighing in at 1596.50 pounds. To get there it was grown in St. Thomas by a man named John Butler, and Butler got the seed from a man in Alaska. “I just met this man on vacation one year and we swapped seeds. […]
PHOTOS: Londoners mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Londoners marked the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at local events on Saturday, including one at the Western Fair Agriplex sponsored by the Atlohsa Family Healing Services and Chippewas of the Thames First Nation. Photos by LFP’s Derek Ruttan druttan@postmedia.com
Hanover police seek suspects who robbed wheelchair-bound victim
The Hanover Police are seeking the public’s assistance in seeking two men who are accused of robbing a wheelchair-bound victim of sentimental personal items including photographs of deceased family members. According to a police media release distributed Friday evening, police were called to the area of 10th Street and 11th Avenue for a reported street […]