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Jul 17, 19 •
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This week, The Chatham Voice is celebrating all things Chatham-Kent. As you read through our pages, we look back at the last year of festivals, special events, business announcements and expansions, cultural celebrations and more, and look forward to more...
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Jul 17, 19 •
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Logan Butler has his work cut out for him this fall as he heads to university to take on Aerospace Engineering, but he’s doing so with the help of a local scholarship. Butler earned the $2,500 Angelo Ligori Engineering Scholarship from Greenfield Global....
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Jul 17, 19 •
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Shannon Paiva encourages everyone to take the time to stop and smell the roses…or just look around and see all that Chatham-Kent has to offer. Paiva, the supervisor of tourism development for the municipality, said if people slowed their lives down,...
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Jul 17, 19 •
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When Stuart McFadden joined the municipal economic development department more than a decade ago, Chatham-Kent was littered with vacant factory space; we were in the depths of a recession that clobbered the automotive industry. What a difference a dozen years...
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Jul 16, 19 •
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Saturday will mark the end of an era of sorts, as Marjorie Crew is to step down as chair of East Side Pride (ESP). For two decades, she oversaw the group’s operations in helping to make the streets safer in Chatham’s east side. On July 20, Bev Webster...
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Jul 16, 19 •
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Representatives from the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance Helping Hands Auxiliary presented a cheque recently for $20,500 to the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance Foundation (CKHAF). At the request of the auxiliary, $12,000 of the funds has been earmarked to a...
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Jul 16, 19 •
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The government is providing an additional $1,062,891 this year to support midwives in Chatham-Kent, Essex, and Windsor, according to Rick Nicholls, MPP for Chatham-Kent Leamington. Approximately 140,000 babies are born each year in Ontario, and families are...
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Jul 16, 19 •
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The Mitchell’s Bay eighth annual Antique Car Show takes place Saturday. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., enjoy the displays of pre-1999 cars, trucks, motorcycles and tractors, plus a variety of vendors. Organizers expect upwards of 200 vehicles for the event. Hosted...
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Jul 16, 19 •
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The YMCA inducted longtime Chatham-Kent resident Jim Fisher into the YMCA Fellowship of Distinction at the Chatham YMCA recently. Although Fisher, a Second World War veteran, former YMCA Board of Director and Foundation Trustee of the Chatham-Kent YMCA, and...
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Jul 16, 19 •
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Rondeau and other provincial parks are open to the public for the day free of charge on Friday. It’s part of Ontario Parks’ Healthy Parks Healthy People On July 19, all Ontario Parks will be offering free day-use access to promote the health benefits of...
