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Eric Bunnell's People: Christmas Care provides comfort in trying times

The St. Thomas agency distributed roughly 1,600 hampers to local families this holiday season

19.12.2024 8

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Eric Bunnell's People: Elgin Theatre Guild raises the curtain on Christmas whodunit

12.12.2024 5

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Eric Bunnell's People: People Who Care celebrate 'transformative work'

The Ignite Youth Centre received $10,000 from the campaign after a successful pitch to donors The evening was the 10th annual People Who Care...

05.12.2024 10

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Eric Bunnell's People: Embracing the festive season

A few seasonal save-the-dates for holiday events in St. Thomas and Elgin County The end of November is nigh, and Christmas spirits are most decidedly...

28.11.2024 10

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Eric Bunnell's People: Signs of the season

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in St. Thomas and Elgin County Signs of the coming holidays now seem everywhere around our town,...

22.11.2024 10

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Eric Bunnell's People: Christmas Care launches 45th yearly campaign

Registration for Christmas Cares begins Nov. 12 and closes on Dec. 10 Ya just gotta love this unseasonal weather we’ve been enjoying. Or do you? ...

07.11.2024 8

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Eric Bunnell's People: Project Tiny Hope and a better future

YWCA is set to announce a new fundraising campaign to help furnish the tiny homes “This is a physical representation of what working together looks...

31.10.2024 10

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Eric Bunnell's People: Trillium grant helps keep things cool at Central United

Ontario Trillium Foundation grant used to install heat pumps in church's community spaces Things are real cool at Central United Church for community...

24.10.2024 10

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Eric Bunnell's People: Remembering Bill Vigars

St. Thomas native penned a celebrated book about his travels with Terry Fox during the original Marathon of Hope St. Thomas native Bill Vigars was a...

17.10.2024 20

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Eric Bunnell's People: Sharing their hope

YWCA St. Thomas-Elgin officials offer to share project plans with other interested municipalities Project Tiny Hope just may be bigger than we think. ...

10.10.2024 10

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Eric Bunnell's People: Project Tiny Hope sparks big building blitz

A three-day building blitz this week brought together local builders and trades to put up the first eight of Project Tiny Hope’s tiny homes at 21...

26.09.2024 10

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Eric Bunnell's People: Playwrights' festival puts a premium on comedy

Three plays will each get a day’s workshop, followed by an public reading and audience discussion Skullduggery at the local lilac festival!?! You...

19.09.2024 20

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Eric Bunnell's People: Power and Precision comes to the Elgin County Heritage Centre

New exhibit explores the history of golf and curling in Elgin County It’s getting on that time of year, isn’t it? The end of summer is on the...

05.09.2024 20

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Eric Bunnell's People: On 'Board' with en plein air

More than three dozen area artists take part in painting session Ian Begg proposed the day for artists to paint an old barn at his farm. “I’ve...

29.08.2024 20

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Eric Bunnell's People: The image of health

St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital officials celebrated the arrival of a new MRI machine this week I don’t know if there was champagne. But I do...

01.08.2024 20

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Eric Bunnell's People: Banding together

St. Thomas park staff help band two osprey chicks in Pinafore Park They’re passing the cigars at Pinafore Park. Well, metaphorically, at least,...

25.07.2024 20

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Eric Bunnell's People: No place like home for children's book author

Although life has taken Alex Wilson to many far-away places – “I’ve had a lot of adventures,” she laughs – there truly is no place like home...

19.07.2024 10

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Eric Bunnell's People: Food bank predictions prove depressingly accurate

Demand at the St. Thomas-Elgin Food Bank has risen sharply during the first half of 2024 It’s what they said would happen. Demand for food...

04.07.2024 7

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Eric Bunnell's People: Building 'Hope' in St. Thomas

The first tiny home of Project Tiny Hope is now under construction There’s very real hope growing today in St. Thomas. A year after...

27.06.2024 10

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Eric Bunnell's People: 'This is where we really began as a community'

Saturday service helps mark the 200th anniversary of the Old St. Thomas Church An event 200 years in the making takes place this Saturday in St....

20.06.2024 20

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Eric Bunnell's People: New mural marks Elgin's connection with Oneida Nation

The mural includes a map of the Oneida Nation's journey and symbols representing its culture, In 1840, more than 200 men, women and children left...

13.06.2024 10

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Eric Bunnell's People: On the (mid-week) market

Twenty vendors take part in the first Horton Midweek Market The Horton Farmers’ Market was the place to be for Nicole and gal pals Kim and Brianne...

06.06.2024 10

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Eric Bunnell's People: Back on track with Motor Car No. 14

Elgin County Railway Museum volunteers have spent years restoring the 107-year-old rail car It’s “all aboard” once again for the London and...

30.05.2024 40

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Eric Bunnell's People: No place like home for Rachel McAdams

The St. Thomas star of stage and screen 'dreams' about returning to Canada There’s a happy 1995 memory of St. Thomas in the Broadway dressing room...

23.05.2024 50

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Eric Bunnell's People: A new season and a new artistic director

This year's Port Stanley Festival Theatre season is dedicated to the memory of the late Simon Joynes When the curtain goes up next week on the 2024...

17.05.2024 50

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Eric Bunnell's People: Getting ready for market day

Organizers are excited about a new mid-week market day being introduced this year t’s a sure sign that another St. Thomas spring is well upon us –...

09.05.2024 60

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Eric Bunnell's People: A Tony nod for Rachel McAdams

McAdams is nominated for best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play Could Rachel McAdams’s star shine any brighter? Just days...

02.05.2024 20

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Eric Bunnell's People: St. Thomas star earns high praise for Broadway debut

Rachel McAdams wows audiences and critics in Amy Herzog’s drama, Mary Jane Rachel McAdams says she was “terrified” by the prospect of Broadway. ...

25.04.2024 30

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Eric Bunnell's People: The first cherry blossoms of spring

The trees were donated to St. Thomas as part of the Sakura Project So, no sooner was the ink dry on last week’s entry that Jeff Bray, the city parks...

18.04.2024 30

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Eric Bunnell's People: Great news from Hospice of Elgin

Construction on the new hospice facility should be finished in 12 to 14 months Hospice of Elgin is sharing good news. Indeed, great news. “We...

11.04.2024 20

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Eric Bunnell's People: Getting ready for the Shamrock Shuffle

Annual fundraiser helps support The INN St. Thomas-Elgin homeless shelter March, already! Even with its extra 29th day this Leap Year, wherever did...

29.02.2024 20

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Eric Bunnell's People: 'The Music Man who came to town'

James Reilly founded an award-winning harmonica band at Elmdale public school in the 1930s They were the worst of times, those early 1930s. But...

22.02.2024 10

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Eric Bunnell's People: Putting the pep in the pump organ

Baden man volunteers to restore the aging pump organ at Old St. Thomas Church as part of bicentennial celebrations By day, he’s a computer...

08.02.2024 10

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Eric Bunnell's People: Wallacetown's famous Stone House up for sale

Local landmark was built in 1876 by Joshua Bobier, an early settler The address is 29480 Fingal Line. But the house is so well-known that homeowner...

01.02.2024 10

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Eric Bunnell's People: Celebrating 200 years of Port Stanley

The year-long bicentennial celebrations began Saturday with a kickoff at the Fire Hall Market Well, it only makes sense, doesn’t it, that if...

25.01.2024 40

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Eric Bunnell's People: Surge in demand worries St. Thomas food bank officials

Demand at the St. Thomas-Elgin Food Bank has almost doubled over the past three years There’s a box of tissues on Karen McDade’s desk at the St....

18.01.2024 20

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Eric Bunnell's People: Port Stanley Lions provide hospice help

Service club members donate $125K to the Hospice of Elgin fundraising campaign Theirs may be a small town on the north shore of Lake Erie. But...

11.01.2024 5

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Eric Bunnell's People: A not-so-silent celebration of Old St. Thomas Church

Bicentennial committee has a full year of events planned to celebrate church's 200-year history It could have been a real Silent Night. Age – and...

04.01.2024 20

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Eric Bunnell's People: Lighting up Pinafore Park – again

While modest, the return of holiday lights at Pinafore Park has been well received, parks official says The dark nights at this time of year are just...

21.12.2023 20

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Eric Bunnell's People: Time to register for Christmas Care

The deadline for Christmas hamper registration is Friday, Dec. 8, at 4 p.m. There’s hardly been snow so far this season. And that’s what often...

07.12.2023 6

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