Original article by Paul Morden at theobserver.ca Publishing date: Apr 18, 2021 A program helping Sarnia-area families make their way out of poverty has kept going through the pandemic. Circles, an approach Lambton County began using in 2009, has temporarily replaced its weekly dinners in church halls and community centres with phone calls, drop-offs of […]
Month: April 2021
Canadian Museum of Nature honours Sarnia’s ‘bug girl’
Original article by Paul Morden at theobserver.ca Publishing date: Nov 26, 2020 An 11-year-old Sarnia author and insect enthusiast is the winner of the Canadian Museum of Nature 2020 Youth Nature Inspiration Award. Sophia Spencer, who co-authored The Bug Girl (A true story) with Margaret McNamara, was named the winner Wednesday during an online ceremony. “I was, […]
Sarnia celebrates with The Bug Girl
Sophia Spencer’s book-signing on Saturday packed The Book Keeper. The Sarnia book store was full of fans of the 11-year-old P. E. McGibbon public school pupil and co-author of The Bug Girl (A true story), written with New York writer Margaret McNamara and published by an imprint of Penguin Random House. “I think it might […]
