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Treasurer stole $94K from Southwestern Ontario youth soccer club
SIMCOE â A 34-year-old man whose fraud brought a local youth soccer club to the brink of ruin has been sent to jail for 18 months. During Brodie Chambersâ time as the Simcoe and District Youth Soccer Clubâs treasurer in 2021 and 2022, he siphoned off $94,285, falsified documents and reports, and forged signatures to […]
Film festival to honour London-born Hollywood star. But which one?
Hooray for Hollywood . . . and for London. The Forest City Film Festival is set on Aug. 1 to announce the winner of its first Lifetime Achievement in Entertainment Award â honouring one London-born star, and also underscoring the entire rich tradition of actors and actresses who’ve gone from the heart of Southwestern Ontario […]
Heavy rains flooding Harris Park? Amid climate change, get used to it
Shoreline fixes coming to Harris Park wonât prevent floods like the one that happened last week after near-record rain left the downtown-area greenspace and its walkways submerged. The Harris Park shoreline restoration project, instead, will replace old erosion prevention measures with naturalized infrastructure to “protect the shoreline into the future,” city hall officials say. While […]
London long-haul trucker honoured for highway heroics
London long-haul trucker Joe Carroll knows âevery bump, every potholeâ on I-75 from Kentucky back to Canada. Twenty times a month, during his run with robotics or cleaning supplies, he passes that point in Ohio near Wapakoneta, an hour south of Toledo, that reminds him of the Ohio truck driver he met in March under […]
PHOTOS: London’s 30th annual Pride parade
A celebration of the LGBTQ community took over downtown on Sunday with the city’s 30th annual Pride parade, the highest-profile event of the week-long Pride London Festival. Photos by LFP’s Mike Hensen mhensen@postmedia.com