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Welcome to ... THE Club Submit local photos as well for the magazine, possibly the front cover Welcome to ... SPRING 2021 BOB BAILEY MPP – Sarnia-Lambton Building A Better Sarnia-Lambton Discussing mental health issues with Bluewater Health President & CEO Mike Lapaine (right), alongside the Associate Minister of Health & Addictions. Congratulating Pathways Health Centre on reaching their $1.6 million Therapeutic Pool fundraising goal, which included $148,500 in support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Presenting virtually to the Michigan Senate in March about the importance of Line 5 to Sarnia-Lambton, Ontario, and the entire Great Lakes Region. Touring Creative Education of Canada in Point Edward, which has transitioned from a costume designer to an Ontario-based provider of face masks and surgical gowns. With the arrival of spring, everyone I’ve been speaking with lately has been in a more positive frame of mind. As we get set to spend more time outside, plant our gardens, fire up the barbecue and enjoy many of our other normal spring-time activities, I’m hoping that you and your immediate family are all staying safe and healthy. This has been an unprecedented year in everyone’s lives. With the ongoing pandemic concerns, this past winter may have felt much lonelier than usual. Having said that, even in the bleakest moments, every day I heard of an act of generosity or human kindness that made me prouder than ever to live in Sarnia-Lambton. As we begin a second year of battling COVID-19, our government continues to make historic investments in health care, long-term care, and other sectors that are critically important to those of us who are 55 and older. That includes rolling out the much-needed COVID-19 vaccines, beginning with our most vulnerable citizens and, ultimately, ensuring that all adults receive their first doses by the start of summer. Although it has taken longer for vaccine supplies to arrive than some of us might have hoped for, it’s also important that we remember how truly miraculous it is that we already have several safe, effective approved vaccines to combat this deadly virus - developed, tested, approved and distributed in record-setting time. Amazing! With more and more people being vaccinated every day, we all have reason to hope that better times are on the way. Combined with the spring-like weather, the opportunity to spend more time safely with our families, and the gradual reopening of our economy, there is plenty of reason for optimism. Stay well! Announcing $1.3 million in joint provincial/federal funding to create 24 new affordable rental housing units for seniors in Sarnia. Supporting arts and culture at the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery with the Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries. Announcing $2,843,400 in provincial funding to expand the Community Paramedicine for Long-Term Care program in Lambton County. Joining the Minister of Labour and Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Agriculture in announcing SWIFT funding to deliver rural broadband services in Lambton County. CONSTITUENCY OFFICE 805 Christina St. North, Suite 102 Point Edward, ON N7V 1X6 Contact Bob Bailey Tel.: 519-337-0051 Fax: 519-337-3246 E-mail: bob.baileyco@pc.ola.org Website: bobbaileympp.com P A G E 14 Any man can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad. (Anne Geddes)
In this difficult time, thank you for continuing to shop locally! Welcome to ... THE Club POSTCARDS of SARNIA- LAMBTON See the Dave Burwell Postcard Collecon at sarniahistoricalsociety.com Chipican Grill 1970’s Sponsored p o dBy: A Better Place For You® F. Filia & Associates Ltd. 2-565 Murphy Road, Sarnia Franco Filia 519-332-5400 I franco_filia@cooperators.ca Advisor/Owner Photos from the Krom-o-graph collecon. Aerial view of the bluewater bridge in the 1940s. Lake Huron Hotel in the 1900s. near Colborne and Lakeshore Pesha: The Federal Building and local post office. Located at the corner of S-E corner of Davis and Front. The Sarnia Ferries that docked at Ferry Dock Hill on Cromwell and Front Street would ferry cars and people to the Port Huron, USA side. Canatara Beach The Heritage of My Hands By Lyn Tremblay, Simcoe • From Daytripping Magazine September-October 2001 There is a “memory” room in our home where I go to visit some very special people who are no longer in my life. It is filled with objects that were so much a part of their lives that I can caress each one and feel as if I am holding hands with my past. An old sewing machine sits in the corner—when I touch its smooth oak surface I am back in the kitchen of my childhood. My mom is bent over it guiding yards of fabric under the click, click, click of the tiny needle, the wheel whirs as her foot works the treadle back and forth. I have a special memory of matching red skirts with tiny kittens around the hems, made for my two sisters and I. Without trying very hard, I can smell the wood burning in the cookstove and I can see loaves of homemade bread, rising like puffy clouds, sitting on the top of the warming closet. In my memory room, the bed is draped with a “Dresden plate” patterned patchwork quilt. I can hear my grandmother’s giggle as she tells a story, while her fingers automatically push a needle pulling thread in and out, tracing the edges of each design. Now I look at those same patches and I remember a blouse that covered an ample bosom and arms that rocked countless babies. Some of my pillowcases are trimmed in intricately “tatted” lace and embroidery. Nearby, a photograph of a prim and proper lady with lace-edged collars reminds me that this is the work of one of my great-grandmothers. An old tin box is filled with large dark buttons, the kind you would find on heavy woolen “mackinaw” coats. My other greatgrandmother knew a tougher life—her creations kept her children warm. They both died long before I was born, but I feel I know them. A tiny basket sitting on the windowsill holds other reminders. A crocheted pincushion belonged to great-aunt Francis, we called her Aunt Fanny. When I think of her, I am a little girl, brushing long hair that hung to her knees before she braided it into a neat halo that wrapped around her head. The basket also contains a small wooden crochet hook whittled by my great-grandfather. It is the only reminder of hours spent carving with only his touch to guide him. He could not see. I can smell his pipe. Canatara Beach A rug hook made from a spoon belonged to my great-great grandmother—the crevices of the engraved handle are dark with age. I am told she loved to create her own unique designs, working long into the night by the light of a coal-oil lamp. There are other things that I cherish perhaps even more than all of these. Delicate crocheted cotton doilies spread out on dresser tops are reminders that once, not so long ago, other fingers— spotted with age and swollen with arthritis, worked the tiny knots flawlessly day in and day out. These are the works of art created by my grandmother. These small webs of cloth are a reminder of her passion. She too is gone now, but my memories of her have not had time to dim. She was my inspiration and part of the wonderful legacy that my own hands have inherited. SPRING 2021 Motherhood is an act of endless forgiveness. (unknown) P A G E 15
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