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Balmy Beach man leads relay run in memory of good friend
As Jesse Walker made his way along his fundraising run through the Georgian Bluffs countryside on Saturday morning, his thoughts often turned to his friend Tyson Downs, who passed away suddenly a year ago. “I did start thinking about Tyson while I was running,” the 19-year-old brain cancer survivor from Balmy Beach said once he […]
Stratford shooter and victims had clashed for weeks: Neighbours
The dispute that flared into a mass shooting that left two people dead had been festering for much of the summer, neighbours of the shooter and the three people he shot say. Several residents of Bradshaw Drive in Stratford confirmed Stratford police had become regular visitors to their usually peaceful north-end neighbourhood in recent months, […]
Growing Concerns: Portulaca versatile, low maintenance, heat tolerant
Here are a few plants I overlooked in the spring but will try now and perhaps they will make it onto my list of next year.
Eyewitness says he tried to save London girl swept away in Thames River
As the search for a girl missing in the Thames River in London continued Friday, an eyewitness who was fishing when she disappeared recalled how he tried to save her in the fast-moving current. The 11-year-old boy, who’d been fishing with his grandfather Thursday, said he saw the girl playing in the water upstream nearby […]
Killer conman Albert Walker loses parole appeal in B.C.
The Appeal Division of the Parole Board of Canada has turned down another challenge by notorious conman Albert Walker to receive day parole. The former Paris, Ontario, man has been serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder of a UK man in a crime that saw him dubbed The Rolex Killer. Walker was convicted […]