Harvest and Horses Festival at the John R. Park Homestead

🕔13:19, 11.Oct 2013

by Alice Hewitt Visitors got a rare look at early pioneer life when the John R. Park Homestead held its first annual Horses and Harvest Festival Sunday October 6. The event combined two of the Homestead’s popular annual festivals to

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Kitchen Fire Safety

Kitchen Fire Safety

🕔12:57, 11.Oct 2013

  Kitchen Fire Safety By Dan Gray Windsor Fire and Rescue Services is reminding citizens during national Fire Prevention Week to be careful while they are cooking. In front of more than 300 people outside City Hall Oct. 7, fire

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Villains Beastro comedy night

🕔14:53, 4.Oct 2013

By Chandesha Thompson It was a big night for Villains Beastro downtown as they held their monthly comedy night. A little over forty people came out to support and hear some jokes from local comedians along with a few comedians

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Enrolment on the rise with fire and fashion

Enrolment on the rise with fire and fashion

🕔13:31, 4.Oct 2013

By Y Murad Erzinclioglu Students learning about high fashion and saving lives are helping to increase enrolment at St. Clair College. In September the college introduced two new programs – fashion design technician and pre-service firefighter education and training. Both

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Downtown core prospected by racers

Downtown core prospected by racers

🕔23:41, 22.Sep 2013

  By Rick Dawes A local college student has organized a scavenger hunt that challenges participants to brave the city’s core. Participants took to the streets of downtown Windsor Sept. 21, equipped with maps, checklists and brown paper bags and

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CJAM celebrates its thirtieth anniversary

CJAM celebrates its thirtieth anniversary

🕔16:07, 22.Sep 2013

  By Clara Musca A local radio station has turned 30. CJAM 99.1 FM Campus-Community Radio  celebrated its thirtieth anniversary with legendary Windsor reggae/ska band Contradance Sept. 21. at FM Lounge. Contradance reunited for one night only after a 20 year

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Cadets host final recruitment opportunity for youth

Cadets host final recruitment opportunity for youth

🕔12:34, 19.Sep 2013

by Hailey Trealout Storm clouds that rumbled in the distance were ignored by each smiling face as Windsorites young and old entered the doors of the HMCS Hunter building Sept. 11. Members of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet corps program

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Bikers come together in memory of veteran

Bikers come together in memory of veteran

🕔00:28, 19.Sep 2013

By Hailey Trealout   Rumbling motorcycle engines rode in memory of a young Windsorite killed in combat. Cpl. Andrew Grenon was a 23-year-old veteran who was killed during his second tour in Afghanistan. He died September 3, 2008, two weeks

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The Red Bull bus is coming to town

🕔23:21, 18.Sep 2013

By Hailey Trealout The wheels on the Red Bull bus are parking at their final destination on the corner of Ouellette Avenue and University Avenue Sept. 20. Downtown Windsor will be hosting a concert from the side of a 1967

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Run for your (better) life

🕔18:51, 24.Jul 2013

By Sean Previl Do you have what it takes to outrun the undead? Undead Unleashed, a five-kilometer zombie run, will take place Oct. 5 at 10 a.m. at Malden Park. Co-owners of Scarehouse Windsor, Shawn Lippert and Dario Silvaggi, teamed

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Downtown Mission thanks volunteers

Downtown Mission thanks volunteers

🕔13:39, 12.Apr 2013

By Maureen Mariampillai The Downtown Mission will be hosting an appreciation dinner on April 16 for its volunteers during National Volunteer Week. The mission is a non-profit organization which provides services to those who are in poverty and are struggling

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St. Clair celebrates athletics

St. Clair celebrates athletics

🕔13:34, 12.Apr 2013

By Maureen Mariampillai St. Clair College athletes traded in their uniforms for suits and dresses for one special night. The 46th annual awards banquet for the varsity and intramural athletes and coaches celebrated their achievements at the St. Clair College

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Concert Band Celebrates 15th Anniversary

🕔10:07, 12.Apr 2013

By Jamie Adam Fifteen successful years have gone by for the Greater Windsor Concert Band and they celebrated by doing what they do best, playing a concert. The band played 15 songs to celebrate 15 years, ranging from “The Carnival

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Run for Rocky kicks off

Run for Rocky kicks off

🕔12:01, 6.Apr 2013

By Adam El-Baba The Windsor Pride Education and Resource Centre kicked off their Run for Rocky campaign April 4 at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts. Partnered with Rocky Campana’s parents, Rob and Nancy, the event is geared toward

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National unemployment on the rise while Windsor declines

National unemployment on the rise while Windsor declines

🕔14:19, 5.Apr 2013

  By: Y. Murad Erzinclioglu The national unemployment rate rose to 7.2 per cent in March, Statistics Canada announced the first week of April. Following an increase in employment during the month of February, employment declined by 55,000 jobs in

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Windsor celebrates World Autism Day

Windsor celebrates World Autism Day

🕔13:22, 5.Apr 2013

Charlie Huynh, left, plays with Noah Butler at The Summit Centre for Preschool Children with Autism in Windsor April 4. (Photo by: Sean Previl)   People across the world are raising awareness for autism and Windsor took part in a

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Student journalists come to Windsor for ORCUP conference

Student journalists come to Windsor for ORCUP conference

🕔13:16, 5.Apr 2013

Student journalists across Ontario were given the chance to learn more about the media from industry professionals. Windsor hosted the Ontario Conference for Canadian University Press the weekend of March 29-31, bringing in journalists who have been in the industry

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Windsor Made Routan Discontinued by Volkswagen

Windsor Made Routan Discontinued by Volkswagen

🕔12:59, 5.Apr 2013

By Samuel McEachern Volkswagen Group has announced it will cease production later this year of its Routan minivan, which shares the Chrysler Town and Country and Dodge Grand Caravan platform. When Volkswagen Group introduced the Routan minivan in 2008 at

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Sandwich post office closing date announced

Sandwich post office closing date announced

🕔12:37, 5.Apr 2013

By Adam D’Andrea After protests, petitions and 107 years of service, the Olde Sandwich Towne postal outlet will be closed at the end of April. Canada Post announced March 26 that operations at the post office would cease April 26.

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Hudak visits Windsor

Hudak visits Windsor

🕔11:51, 5.Apr 2013

by Melissa Iarusso Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak visited Windsor to share his plans to curb unemployment in the province. Hudak held a press conference at the Vollmer Recreation Complex April 4 in LaSalle to hear from locals about

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