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Children’s Aid Society asking for cash

Children’s Aid Society asking for cash

🕔15:25, 17.Dec 2017

Some Windsor families may not wake up Christmas morning to a tinsel-covered tree and presents, and the Children’s Aid Society wants to avoid that. The CAS wants no child to be left behind this holiday season. It has asked the

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Local band performs to fund local charities

Local band performs to fund local charities

🕔15:23, 15.Dec 2017

A local band will be performing at Caesars Windsor later this month to raise money for local charities. In collaboration with local charities and food banks, St. Clair College and Caesars Windsor are teaming up with The S’aints for a concert

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Keeping you and your pets safe this holiday season

Keeping you and your pets safe this holiday season

🕔14:10, 15.Dec 2017

By Ryan Percy To keep the joy of the holiday season from turning to disaster, there is nothing more important than safety preparedness for your family and pets. The holiday season is supposed to be filled with joy and happiness,

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Adopt a family in Windsor this holiday season

Adopt a family in Windsor this holiday season

🕔23:17, 11.Dec 2017

  by Dawn Gray Almost 900 Windsor families will be receiving some extra help this holiday season through a program at the Windsor-Essex Children’s Aid Society. The Holiday Program allows individuals, organizations and businesses to adopt families during the season

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Spreading holiday joy for Windsor seniors

Spreading holiday joy for Windsor seniors

🕔13:14, 11.Dec 2017

By Angelica Haggert A self-proclaimed “ribbon master” gleefully made elegant bows. One participant added socks, gloves and a scarf to a basket while another cut cellophane to wrap around it. Another participant’s job was to move the completed baskets from

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Health roundup

Health roundup

🕔11:36, 8.Dec 2017

By Torcia Velthuizen Holiday dinner warning Health Canada would like to remind everyone about poultry cooking safety. Poultry that is not cooked properly can lead to food poisoning by salmonella or campylobacter bacteria. Here are some tips outlined on the Health Canada website.

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Windsor Goodfellows two-year streak

Windsor Goodfellows two-year streak

🕔10:45, 8.Dec 2017

By Ryan Jones For the second year in a row, the Windsor Goodfellows have exceeded its fundraising goal.     Every year near Christmas, around 600 Windsor Goodfellows volunteers take to the streets for three days, newspapers in hand, to

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Amherstburg welcomes the holiday season

Amherstburg welcomes the holiday season

🕔12:51, 1.Dec 2017

By Ryan Jones   In the town of Amherstburg, people are celebrating the Christmas season through colourful lights. It was a soggy Saturday when the annual River Lights Winter Festival kick-off was postponed to Sunday, Nov. 19. Despite the postponement,

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Fantastic Fathers

Fantastic Fathers

🕔15:09, 14.Oct 2016

A local community group known as Fantastic Fathers Community Group recently held an event to raise money for families in need this Christmas. Earlier this month hundreds of families stood in line for hours at Colasanti’s Tropical Gardens to get their pictures

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Making a difference, one stop at a time

🕔14:13, 30.Nov 2012

by Meagan Deschamps The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train has hit the rails again and will be visiting over 150 communities across Canada. The Holiday Train Program began in 1999 with a handful of communities and a few lights on a

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Santa’s arrival marks beginning of holiday shopping

🕔09:35, 24.Nov 2012

Santa has left his sleigh and reindeer at the North Pole and made his grand entrance to Windsor by helicopter. The Windsor Optimist Youth Band was there to entertain the crowd of roughly 1,000 people young and old alike.  Santa

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Red Kettle Campaign

Red Kettle Campaign

🕔12:30, 19.Oct 2012

More than $20 million has been raised over 120 years of the Salvation Army’s largest charitable campaign. The Christmas Kettle Campaign begins Nov. 19 with over 2,000 kettles stationed around Canada to collect donations that will benefit families in need

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