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Dec 2, 13 •
307 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Chatham Voice • No Comments
Representatives from the CKHA Helping Hands Auxiliary presented a cheque for $20,000 to the Foundation of Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) in support of the Foundation of CKHA’s fundraising efforts, including the 24th Annual Christmas Wish Tree Appeal....
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Nov 29, 13 •
480 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Jim Blake • No Comments
The future of major downtown events such as Retrofest and the Santa Claus parade is assured following a landmark meeting of the Historic Downtown Chatham BIA. BIA chair Andrew Thiel said the organization unanimously passed its 2014 $60,000 levy, and in doing...
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Nov 29, 13 •
445 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Chatham Voice • No Comments
Dupont Pioneer donated recently to the United Way of Chatham-Kent’s annual campaign. The company’s gift of more than $56,000 helped push this year’s campaign past the $1.25 million mark. The goal is to raise $2.2 million. Dupont Pioneer’s contribution...
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Nov 29, 13 •
515 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Aaron Hall • No Comments
Hundreds of local high school students flocked to the second annual C-K Career Fair on Thursday, held at the St. Clair College Thames Campus Healthplex. More than 50 businesses and organizations had displays set up, as students toured through the fair....
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Nov 29, 13 •
421 Views • Feature Story, Local Sports • Chatham Voice • No Comments
From left, third annual Charity Curling Classic Steering Committee Members Barb Noorenberghe, Terri Houle Tina Mapletoft and Mark Spencer. Not pictured: Ken MacEachern. The Foundation of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance will host its third annual Charity...
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Nov 28, 13 •
548 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Jim Blake • 1 Comment
Organizers of a Saturday rally in support of a woodlot management bylaw are expecting hundreds of citizens will turn out to protest the destruction of trees in Chatham-Kent. Andrea O’Rourke, a member of CK Woodlot Preservation, said the group has had strong...
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Nov 28, 13 •
310 Views • Feature Story, Local Sports • Jim Blake • No Comments
Fred Osmon’s History of Chatham Minor Baseball may be on its way to selling out its press run. Less than 100 copies of the 158-page book remain for sale three weeks after it was announced the book was completed. “We had a tremendous response to the...
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Nov 28, 13 •
1037 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Bruce Corcoran • 1 Comment
The construction on St. Clair Street in Chatham will take a winter hiatus next month, but it will be back in the spring. That’s the word from Thomas Kelly, the municipality’s manager of infrastructure and engineering services. He had hoped to see...
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Nov 27, 13 •
1063 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Blair Andrews • No Comments
A partnership billed as the first of its kind in North America was honoured at the 67th Rural Urban Dinner in Chatham Wednesday. Greenfield Ethanol received the Agricultural Innovator of the Year award during a ceremony at the John D. Bradley Convention...
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Nov 27, 13 •
584 Views • Feature Story, Viewpoint • Jim Blake • No Comments
Chatham-Kent council’s decision Monday to approve funding for a proposed hospice is an example of democracy in action. It was messy, occasionally loud, and wandered off base at times, but in the end, West Kent Coun. Brian King’s sentiment that “it’s...
