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Warden and Deputy Warden meet with Provincial Ministers at ROMA Conference

Wyoming, ON – Warden Kevin Marriott and Deputy Warden Brian White joined more than 1,600 participants from across the province at the 2024 Rural Ontario Municipal Association (ROMA) Conference in Toronto on Monday and Tuesday this week.

During the conference, the Warden and Deputy Warden along with members of the County’s senior management team met with:

• The Honourable Doug Downey, Attorney General, to: (a) address shortages of Justice of the Peace in Ontario and (b) advocate for additional...

Learn the art of Solvent Free Oil Painting at JNAAG

Sarnia, ON – The Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery is inviting adults of all art skill levels to participate in an upcoming Solvent Free Oil Painting workshop on Thursday, January 25 from 6 – 8 p.m.

Lead by area artist Emily Lardner, this workshop will explore alternatives to using solvents in oil painting, as well as the cleanup process. Whether a true beginner or having painted with oils for years, this workshop will set participants up for a safe practice, showing you how easy the switch to...

Lambton County Museums and Archives launch new Online Collections Database

Archivist Nicole Aszalos holds photos in collections storage at Lambton County Archives. Photo by Paul Morden / The Observer

Wyoming, ON – Lambton Heritage Museum, Oil Museum of Canada, and Lambton County Archives are thrilled to announce the launch of their new Online Collections Database.

Containing the digital records of more than 8,000 historical artifacts, photographs, and archival documents, the new database offers patrons the ability to search records from all three institutions at once. The...

Lambton County Library celebrating Family Literacy Day with free festival

Wyoming, ON – Lambton County Library is planning a free family party on Saturday, January 27 with a day full of activities including a concert, movie, face painting, retro gaming, a maker activity on the laser cutter and more as part of a Family Literacy Day Festival at Sarnia Library.

The festival runs from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. and begins at Sarnia Library. Activities will also take place at the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery beginning at 12:00 p.m.

The main feature of the festival will be two...

Local artist featured in Lambton Heritage Museum’s first exhibit of 2024

Grand Bend, ON – Lambton Heritage Museum is pleased to announce S.H.E. is Healing, their first feature exhibition of 2024, will open Thursday, February 1.

S.H.E. is Healing features a series of 13 spirit portraits painted by local artist Suellen Evoy-Oozeer. Evoy-Oozeer’s work is inspired by a female perspective on the themes Spirit, Humanity, Earth (S.H.E.), and Healing. The exhibit is the culmination of a four-year community art project, in which Evoy-Oozeer opened dialogues of healing and...