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 […]

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Woman behind Circles Canada retiring

Originally published at https://www.theobserver.ca/news/local-news/woman-behind-circles-canada-retiring   The woman responsible for bringing the poverty alleviation program Circles to Canada says it’s grown beyond her expectations over the past decade. Now in 10 Canadian communities, including Sarnia-Lambton – where Gayle Montgomery first brought Circles to Canada from the United States in 2009 – the program that helps people […]

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Sarnia Journal Guest Column: Thea’s weekend of tending and befriending

The ‘Women’s Worth Wellness Retreat for Worthy Women’ was held in honour of Thea DeGroot, an educator and community advocate who passed away in May 2018 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. By Lauren Bus (Original Article: http://thesarniajournal.ca/theas-weekend-of-tending-and-befriending/) Earlier this summer, a women’s wellness retreat was held at a beach house in Camlachie. The ‘Women’s Worth […]

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Circles program a great example of people finding solutions

Each of us has likely heard of the capitalist economy, the sharing economy and the information economy, but usually not of the solutions economy of which we have several examples right here in Sarnia-Lambton. Circles Canada is one such example – providing a program to enable individuals to lift themselves out of poverty by setting […]

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Circles has been a game changer on the ground

Source Sarnia mayor frustrated with federal leaders for ignoring poverty, inequality By Roderick Benns One of Canada’s longest serving mayors is getting frustrated with the three main federal party leaders who are persistently ignoring the issues of poverty and inequality. Mayor Mike Bradley, of Sarnia, Ontario, says he is speaking out more lately for measures […]

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