By Shirley Feng It was a cold and snowy Tuesday afternoon but the H.S. Hetherington Public School gym was warm, crowded and festive. The second annual Winter Craft and Gift Show attracted many vendors and patrons for the fundraiser. Before
Watching a decorated tree catch fire or falling from a ladder while hanging holiday lights all sound like scenes from a bad Christmas movie. But, as temperatures drop people tend to spend more time at home and real holiday disasters
For seven generations, Palestinians have been without a place they can call their homeland. Many of them have never met their relatives from what most of the Muslim world considers occupied territories. On Dec. 11, President Donald Trump’s announcement of
Blackburn Radio’s Country 95.9FM and the Salvation Army are operating their first annual Windsor Wonderland Toy Drive. They were asking people to bring in unwrapped toys for all age groups to the Best Western hotel on Riverside Drive. Staff from
The Windsor Goodfellows’ newspaper drive has exceeded its fundraising goal for the 2017 season. The group had hoped to raise $275,000. As of Monday afternoon they had reached over $287,000. The annual newspaper drive was started in 1914 by two
The art of glassblowing is on display until tomorrow evening. Tsunami Glassworks is hosting an open house today and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m at their location at 2440 Central Ave. During their 12 years in operation, their
The City of Windsor is introducing a Pay for Parking app for both street meters and city-run surface lots. Users can download the app through their smart phone and pay for parking by clicking a button. Signs on the meters
Local artists were going for the “wow” factor at the largest local art show in the region this fall. More than 200 paintings were on display at the Windsor Crossing outlet mall from Oct. 20 to Nov. 12 – all
A local band is using music to “sleigh” Windsor’s hunger problem that organizers say is a crisis. The concert later this month will be headlined by The S’Aints, which produces and performs Christmas albums through St. Clair College to support
By Ryan Percy Hundreds of Windsorites will find good meals waiting for them at the Downtown Mission this holiday season. Every day the Mission serves more than 700 meals to anyone who comes in looking for something warm to fill
By Cody Wall Of the 23 players on the Kingsville Kings roster, this season 19 of them live with a billet family. The Kingsville Kings sit in first place of the Greater Metro Hockey League standing, having lost only four
By Tate Harris Catholic Central High School defeated E.J Lajeunesse Secondary School 50- 31 in the opening game of the WECSSAA senior boys basketball season. Lajeunesse lead by two points going into the second half after Catholic Central struggled to capitalize on opportunities in the first half. Catholic Central coach, Paul Gebrael, said the team’s composure allowed them to keep the game close. “We are really working on this whole idea of
By: Jordan Ferris MLS The 2017 MLS Cup final is being played on Dec. 9 at BMO Field in Toronto. Toronto received home field advantage for having the better regular season record. The game is a rematch of last
By Noah Gecelovsky The newly-elected leader of the New Democratic Party Jagmeet Singh visited his hometown of Windsor, Ont. on Dec. 1. Singh met with MPs Brian Masse and Tracey Ramsey and talked about both Windsor’s problems and potential. He
By Donna Ntumba After discovering she was gluten intolerant, Kaylee Lett says she has had difficulty finding options for homemade gluten-free products. That is when she and her mother, Sue Taranto, began baking from their home kitchen in LaSalle and
By David Lafreniere If the walls of the historic Low-Martin House in Walkerville could talk – the stories they would tell. The walls’ whispers through the generations, have escaped the confines of this gentrified estate to breathe new life beyond
By Loren Mastracci When Ivana Perfetto tells people she just moved to Windsor from Rome, she says the reaction is always the same: astonishment. The 55-year-old Windsor native returned to her hometown with her family to fulfill her dream of
Local bars have been hosting quite the combination – beer drinking and yoga, attracting hundreds of young adults. The force behind it is Blue Pin Social Events, which is pitching the events for anyone with an “open mind and a
By: Noah Gecelovsky Homelessness in Windsor is a rising problem that continues to go overlooked by many across the province. The most recent example of neglect in dealing with the homeless situation comes from the provincial government denying Windsor’s application for the $200 million fund created to combat homelessness across Ontario. According
By Kurlis Mati Stephen King once said, “Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They are both fruit but taste completely different.” With films such as 1910’s Frankenstein and 1925’s Greed, books have been adapted into films since the
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