Daylight saving time starts March 14   
Posted 2 days ago
Daylight saving time starts on Sunday, March 14 so before you go to bed Saturday, set your clocks ahead one hour. The time shift will officially take place overnight. Daylight saving time ends Nov. 7.

Lucan evens series with Petrolia   
Posted 2 days ago
Petrolia Topic Staff After the Petrolia Squires won the opening game of a best-of-seven playoff series against the Lucan-Ilderton Jets with a 4-3 victory at home on March 5, the Jets tied the series with a 7-5 win in Lucan on March 6. [more]

Child's windpipe injured in trailer accident    
Posted 2 days ago
A two-year-old boy whose windpipe was injured in an accident at a Michigan Line home in Plympton-Wyoming Friday remains in hospital and has been upgraded from critical to fair condition. Lambton OPP reports that around 12:30 p. [more]

Lancer hockey girls advance to SWOSSAA final   
Posted 5 days ago
Petrolia Topic Staff Petrolia's Lancer girls' hockey team is now a perfect 15-0 in league and playoff play after defeating Chatham-Kent 2-1 in the SWOSSAA semifinal, Friday in Petrolia. [more]

Maple Syrup Festival on tap   
Posted 5 days ago
Petrolia Topic Staff ALVINSTON — The A.W. Campbell Conservation Area near here and the Alvinston Community Centre will be the sites of the 38th annual Maple Syrup Festival on March 20 and 21. [more]

Lyons closing Bear Creek Studio   
Posted 5 days ago
QMI Agency Petrolia resident Ariel Lyons, the owner of Bear Creek Studio at Sarnia's Bayside Centre, is closing up shop this month. Lyons said the past three weeks have been a zoo at the store — ever since she put up signs announcing the closure. [more]

Freemason head visiting   
Posted 5 days ago
The head of Ontario's Freemasons will visit Wyoming on March 6, for a reception at the Plympton-Wyoming fairgrounds exhibition hall. Raymond Daniels, a retired teacher from Kitchener, will discuss freemasonry — the world's largest and oldest fraternal organization. [more]

Speakers want LHIN removed   
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QMI Agency WALLACEBURG — An Oil Springs woman whose husband died — and others who spoke here before an Ontario Health Coalition panel — said the LHIN is part of a failed health care system bogged down by provincial bureaucracy and some of the speakers want the LHIN removed. [more]

Province antes up for health study   
Posted 5 days ago
QMI Agency A community health study is expected to begin soon now that Ontario has agreed to contribute $50,000. [more]

Hockey series schedule for Petrolia and Lucan-Ilderton announced   
Posted 6 days ago
Petrolia Topic Staff The Petrolia Squires have advanced to the Western Ontario Athletic Association Senior Hockey League's south division final after eliminating the Monkton Wildcats with a 5-4 win on March 2. [more]

Pool water gets clean bill of health   
Posted 6 days ago
DAVID PATTENAUDE The Petrolia Topic An independent laboratory is being hired at a cost of $600 to test the quality of swimming pool water at Petrolia's Oil Heritage District Community Centre — even though regular testing of pool water there shows the water is safe and clean and in compliance with [more]

Fire department launching CO campaign   
Posted 6 days ago
According to a report from Petrolia and North Enniskillen Fire Chief Lawrence Swift, a 2010 public education campaign will be launched to help decrease calls related to carbon monoxide (CO). Known as the "silent killer," CO is a colourless, odourless and tasteless but toxic gas. [more]

Signage authorized    
Posted 6 days ago
Following a recent security breach at the Oil Heritage District Community Centre, Petrolia council has passed a public safety bylaw regulating access to potentially dangerous town-owned properties. [more]

Farmers' Market fees approved   
Posted 6 days ago
Vendor fees have been approved by Petrolia council for the new Farmers' Market to open May 29. A grand opening will be held on June 5 for the market, being built just north of the Petrolia library. [more]

Book store being opened in Petrolia   
Posted 6 days ago
A business licence application from Jim and Sherry Teed to operate a book store at 4182 Petrolia Line, formerly occupied by The Petrolia Topic, has been approved by Petrolia council. The new store will be called The Book Store and have new and used books. [more]

Power out in Brigden this Sunday   
Posted 6 days ago
Hydro One will cut power to the entire Village of Brigden and surrounding area for two hours Sunday morning. The outage will allow crews to perform maintenance on equipment. The utility estimates some 832 customers will be affected. [more]

Caughlin cold case heats up   
Posted 6 days ago
JACK POIRIER QMI Agency Having recently cracked two of Ontario's highest profile cold cases, provincial police have set their sights on the 36-year-old unsolved homicide of a Sarnia teen whose body was found near Petrolia. [more]

Pat Mailloux Eye Centre marks first year & service milestones    
Posted 7 days ago
Petrolia Topic Staff The Pat Mailloux Eye Centre at Petrolia's Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital of Bluewater Health celebrated its first anniversary on Jan. 20. [more]

Squires advance to division final   
Posted 7 days ago
Petrolia Topic Staff The Petrolia Squires have advanced to the Western Ontario Athletic Association Senior Hockey League's south division final after eliminating the Monkton Wildcats with a 5-4 win on March 2. [more]

Lancer girls win fourth straight LSSAA hockey championship    
Posted 7 days ago
DAVE PAUL QMI Agency The LCCVI Lancers put the finishing touches on a perfect LSSAA girls' hockey season at Petrolia's Greenwood Recreation Centre, on March 2. [more]

Sarnia couple wins dream home   
Posted 7 days ago
NEIL BOWEN QMI Agency BRIGHT'S GROVE — Lifelong Sarnia residents Bill and Margaret Morton thought a call announcing they won the $400,000 Bluewater Health Foundation dream home was a prank. "I thought they were joking us," said Margaret. [more]

Lancer wrestlers OFSAA-bound   
Posted 7 days ago
Petrolia Topic Staff Five Lancers from Petrolia's LCCVI have qualified for the OFSAA wrestling championships being held in Tillsonburg, March 4-6. They qualified by placing among the Top 2 finishers at the SWOSSAA wrestling championships held at LCCVI on Feb. [more]

TKD athletes competing at Winter Games   
Posted 7 days ago
By Petrolia Topic Staff  Bluewater (Petrolia) Tae Kwon Do athletes Kaitlin Berdan, 14, of Oil Springs, and Rachel Irvine, 12, of Petrolia, have been selected to compete at the 2010 Ontario Winter Games, March 5-6 in Bracebridge. [more]

Vikings keep LSSAA hockey crown   
Posted 7 days ago
DAVE PAUL QMI Agency After two-and-a-half periods of scoreless hockey, Sarnia's Northern Vikings scored a pair of goals 35 seconds apart, midway through the third, and held on for a 2-0 win over Petrolia's LCCVI Lancers in the LSSAA boys' hockey championship game at Sarnia Arena, on Feb. [more]

Hospital hearings to gather public input   
Posted 7 days ago
CATHY DOBSON QMI Agency If Ontario won't solicit public input on the state of its hospitals, the Ontario Health Coalition will. The coalition is urging public participation at a series of 12 hearings that begin March 4 in Wallaceburg. [more]

Fairy Tale with a twist presented   
Posted 7 days ago
Petrolia Topic Staff LCCVI drama class students presented "Once Upon a Mattress," a comedy musical version of the classic fairy tale, The Princess and the Pea, at Victoria Hall recently. [more]

Ag Hall of Fame group holds inaugural meeting    
Posted 7 days ago
JOHN PHAIR QMI Agency WYOMING — The inaugural meeting of the Lambton County Agricultural Hall of Fame Association was held at the Plympton-Wyoming Fair building here, recently. [more]

Hospitals face crunch time   
Posted 7 days ago
April 1 is the start of a new fiscal year for Ontario hospitals and the province has told hospitals to plan for a zero per cent, one per cent or two per cent increase in the upcoming provincial budget. [more]

iQuit 'app' offered to help smokers break nicotine habit   
Posted 7 days ago
DAVID PATTENAUDE The Petrolia Topic If you want to quit smoking, Lambton County's Community Health Services Department (CHSD) has an "app" for that. It sounds like an Apple iPhone application, but the iQuit Smoking program offered by the CHSD is called that intentionally. [more]

Cancer care layoffs on hold    
Posted 7 days ago
QMI Agency A Petrolia cancer survivor has joined a public outcry credited with a decision by London Health Sciences Centre to push the pause button on plans to lay off nurses at the London Regional Cancer Program. [more]

Towell book launch set   
Posted 7 days ago
A book launch and signing by Lambton County author Ann Towell will be held Saturday, March 6 at the Oil Museum of Canada in Oil Springs. The 1 p.m. event will launch Towell's novel, "Grease Town," based on an 1863 race riot in Oil Springs. [more]