Sarnia’s Polish Community Displays Veterans’ Artifacts

by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) When Krystyna Stalmach found her father's war medals in an old shoebox, she wondered how many other Polish households in Sarnia had similar pieces of history stashed away. That inspired several months of work creating displays of local artifacts, all leading up [...]

2015-08-26T02:01:12-04:00June 23rd, 2015|Comments Off on Sarnia’s Polish Community Displays Veterans’ Artifacts

Creation of Petrosar Fueled Building Boom

by Scott Stephenson for the Sarnia Observer (2003) The last big construction boom in the Chemical Valley occurred almost 30 years ago [Editor’s Note-story written in 2003], fueled by the creation of Petrosar. As the country moved out of the 1960s and into the 1970s, Sarnia’s petrochemical industry was ailing. [...]

2015-08-23T01:34:22-04:00June 22nd, 2015|Comments Off on Creation of Petrosar Fueled Building Boom

C.D. Howe Takes a Chance on Sarnia

by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) If it weren’t for an American-born engineer who earned the nickname “minister of everything” during his long career in Canadian politics, Sarnia might never have become home to the country’s Chemical Valley. Chosen by Prime Minister Mackenzie King to lead efforts to [...]

2015-07-28T19:19:28-04:00June 17th, 2015|Comments Off on C.D. Howe Takes a Chance on Sarnia

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