Wallaceburg sports community struts its stuff at annual Hall of Fame event
The Oak's Inn in Wallaceburg was the place to be on Saturday night as the Wallaceburg and District Sports Hall of Fame held its 31st annual Banquet and Induction ceremony. The event is held each year to induct past sporting heroes into the Sports Hall of Fame and to honour local residents who have made a big difference in the sports community over the past year.......This year's guest speaker was former…
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CHATHAM-KENT STEPS UP for United Way
Tony Walsh and his wife Emily Durbin are the Co-Chairs for the THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING United Way Chatham-Kent 2011 Annual Campaign. Their Touchdown event was held in conjunction with a celebration for the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s funding for UWOCK and the resulting re-launch of “The 425” – United Way’s Centre for Community Innovation.
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Friends of the Tecumseh Monument unveil fundraising plans
The Friends of the Tecumseh Monument (FOTM)have launched a fundraising campaign for $4.2 million to transform the eight-acre site of the Battle of the Thames at which the great Shawnee Chief Tecumseh was killed. Proposed plans for the current monument site east of Thamesville include a new monument to Tecumseh and development of an open-air museum offering interpretation of the story of this vital…
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Foundation of CKHA’s 1st Annual CKHA’s Got Talent a Tremendous Success
CHATHAM, ON (Tuesday, January 31, 2012): On Saturday, January 28, 2012, the Foundation of Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) hosted its 1st Annual CKHA’s Got Talent at Club Lentinas, raising more than $7,500 for the Cardiac Monitoring System Campaign.
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Editor's Note
Welcome back to another great edition of cktimes.ca, Chatham-Kent's good news on the net. And we've got lots of good news stories for you again this week and plenty of excellent blogs or columns. This week, check out a brand new piece in cktimes, Fitness and You, by Certified Personal Trainer Tom Faber and also enjoy many of your favourites. Terri Dent is here with Gardening with Terri, Pastor Brian Horrobin with The Pastoral Lens and Jack Gleason with A Life Worth Living. We've got The Sound Shop with Zach Stenton, Travel Talk with the folks at Vellinga Travel, Cultural Musings on Chatham-Kent with JIm Gilbert. And don't forget about In the Spotlight with Mary Ellen Herder and Cherie McGuire. Lots of good reading in cktimes.ca, and you can also listen to a podcast of John Gardiner's Notes From a Garage. Then, join John for his Good News Report every WEdnesday morning at 9:35 a.m. on 92.9 FM CFCO. See you next week....
