by Mike Bradley (2005) Norma O’Brien, widow of the late veteran City Councillor Pat O’Brien, is a long-time friend of mine. She, like many others, has been following with great interest, the restoration of the former Sarnia Hotel in downtown Sarnia by local businessman Pat Coutu into four beautiful modern [...]
by Mike Bradley (2015) Poets in the 1800s were the rock stars of today. One of the biggest was Walt Whitman, whose most famous and controversial poetry collection was Leaves of Grass. He started writing Leaves of Grass in the early 1850s and was still working on and revising the [...]
by Mayor Mike Bradley (2015) On May 7th, fifty years ago in 1965, Sarnia City Hall was officially opened in what was described as a spectacular ceremony. Built on the site of the former Armoury, it was viewed as a Taj Mahal at a cost of $1.5 million. The Taj [...]
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 [...]
by Tara Jeffrey for the Sarnia Observer (2014) The city of Sarnia has been shaped by number of notable politicians, from familiar figures like former prime minister Alexander Mackenzie, to long forgotten names like 19th century mayor Thomas George Johnston. Some notable names from the history books include: Cameron was [...]
by Carl Hnatyshyn Sarnia This Week (2015) If you’ve lived in Sarnia anytime over the past half-century and have spent time riding down Lambton’s open roads on a chopper, chances are that you’ve heard of Ray McQuinn and Motorsport. That’s because for over 50 years, McQuinn and his team have [...]
by Mayor Mike Bradley (2015) When people pass away, their lives are usually frozen in time in our memories. If younger, then forever young. If older, over time the memories are usually nostalgically positive. Sometimes looking back at the lives of those we have lost, through the telescope of today’s [...]
