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London

• FACE IT: The Street, Part 1 – The Problem
  This series on homelessness and drug addiction marks the end of a months-long LFP project examining London's most-pressing social issues.
• FACE IT: The Street, Part 2 – The People
  'The first thing I need is a place to live and that’s the start to a better life'
• Oakridge senior boys OFSSA-bound after defeating young Huskies volleyball squad
  The Oakridge Oaks had unfinished business in their WOSSAA AAA senior boys’ volleyball gold-medal match Wednesday and they weren’t going to let the Stratford Huskies stand in their way. The Oaks overpowered the Huskies — a combination of Stratford Northwestern and Stratford Central secondary schools — in straight sets of 25-13, 25-20 and 25-20 in […]
• FACE IT: The Street, Part 3 – Solutions
  In a reader poll for last fall’s civic election, you told us what London’s most pressing issues were. While we debated bus rapid transit and political leadership vacuums, the other – and more lasting – issues didn’t get what they deserved. This series about homelessness and drug addiction is the last of three, following a […]

Mitchell

• We Will Remember Them
  Snow greeted participants of the Mitchell Royal Canadian Legion, br. 128’s, Remembrance Day ceremony Monday, Nov. 11 at the Mitchell & District Community Centre. A brief ceremony also took place at the Cenotaph afterwards. We Will Remember Them.
• Anniversary weekend celebration planned for Sept. 25 & 26, 2020
  Just imagine if the walls – the few that are there, of course – could talk at Mitchell’s Upper Thames Elementary School (UTES). The once open-concept school is speeding towards its 50th birthday, and to celebrate the changes that have taken place over five decades and reminisce, a special golden anniversary reunion is planned for […]
• Two out of three ain't bad for Hawks
  The Mitchell Hawks ended back-to-back three-game weekends with four wins in these six contests. The only blemish? The Kincardine Bulldogs. Kincardine defeated the Hawks 6-1 this past Sunday, Nov. 3 in a score that doesn’t reflect how close the game was, after eight days earlier beating the locals 3-2 in Mitchell. The Hawks are 0-3 […]
• Plenty of interest shown in curbing climate change
  If every one of us did just a little, such as reducing your shower from seven to six minutes, differences will take place in slowing down climate change, about 25 people heard during an introductory West Perth climate change meeting Oct. 24 at the Mitchell & District Community Centre. “We’re not asking you to make […]

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