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Mary Beth Corcoran is a Chatham native, born and raised. She studied Journalism at Humber College in Toronto and landed her first job in Lindsay as general reporter and dark room tech at Lindsay This Week. After eight years, she made the move to politics, joining the staff of then Victoria-Haliburton-Brock MPP Chris Hodgson as constituency assistant, and then press secretary at the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines.
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The Kiwanis Music Festival celebrates its 75th anniversary next season, a community venture that has seen thousands of kids with amazing talent take the stage. Not all of those kids go on to promising careers in music, but all of them will remember the...
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Oct 18, 18 •
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A recent fire in a Wallaceburg storage facility has left some families devastated after losing the entire contents to flames and water damage. According to the Chatham-Kent Police Service, a 28-unit storage facility, Wallaceburg Mini Storage on Gillard...
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Oct 17, 18 •
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Members of the Water Wells First group headed to Queen’s Park this week to see about a promise made by then-PC Leader Doug Ford to call a health hazard investigation into the safety of drinking water from sediment-clogged wells in Dover and Chatham...
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Oct 16, 18 •
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Members of Water Wells First (WWF) were to head to Queen’s Park this week to ask a couple of tough questions of the Ford government and its promises to help families in Dover and Chatham townships with sediment-clogged wells. According to WWF spokesperson...
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Oct 15, 18 •
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Nurses across the province are getting to share their experiences, concerns and solutions related to their practice and the health system as a whole with the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario’s (RNAO) CEO, including a stop recently in Chatham. As...
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Oct 10, 18 •
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To offer the public a chance to see and hear about the services it offers to children and families in the community, Chatham-Kent Children’s Services (CKCS) is hosting an open house Oct. 18. As a multi-service child protection, children’s mental health...
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Oct 10, 18 •
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At a time when many communities were refusing to even acknowledge that spousal or partner violence was a real issue, a group of people in Chatham applied for funding because they recognized the local need for a safe place for abused women to go. That was 40...
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Oct 10, 18 •
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Each year, Farm Credit Canada runs its Drive Away Hunger campaign to raise funds for one local school and its breakfast program. This year, Queen Elizabeth II Public School in Chatham was chosen to receive $1,000, a gift for which the school staff are...
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Oct 10, 18 •
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While the ultimate goal of organizations like the Chatham-Kent Women’s Centre (CKWC) is to not be needed, the reality is in today’s society, women fleeing from violence need a safe place to go and help break the cycle of abuse. As the CKWC reaches its...
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Poverty Awareness Week is underway in Chatham-Kent, and organizers of the week’s event hope to engage community partners and the public in real and informative dialogue. Phillip Mock, Project Coordinator for CK Prosperity Roundtable at Family Services Kent,...
