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Betty McMillan, Stratford's first female mayor, dies - BlackburnNews.com

Betty McMillan, wearing the mayoral chain as Stratfords first female mayor in the 1970s. Photo courtesy of W.G. Young Funeral Home. Betty McMillan, Stratford’s first female mayor, dies By Mark BrownFebruary 18, 2019 8:24pm@markbrownradio A pioneer in Stratford politics has passed away. Betty McMillan, who served for many years as an alderman on Stratford municipal council and became Stratford’s first female mayor, died Saturday at the Spruce Lodge long-term care facility. She was 95. According to the obituary provided by W.G. Young Funeral Home, McMillan had worked as a teacher and a realtor before developing an interest in politics, having worked on several election campaigns. In addition to serving as mayor of Stratford in the 1970s, McMillan had also served on council and for one term on the Stratford Board of Education. Stratford Mayor Dan Mathieson tweeted his condolences to the McMillan family, calling McMillan a “kind, thoughtful and great leader...
https://blackburnnews.com/midwestern-ontario/midwestern-ontario-news/2019/02/18/betty-mcmillan-stratfords-first-female-mayor-dies/

Car crash victim, 19, remembered as a family man - The Beacon Herald

Eric Millar (Handout) Share Adjust Comment Print Eric Millar, the 19-year-old Stratford man who died in an early-morning rollover Sunday in the city's south end, will be remembered as a loving family man.Millar's mother, Catherine Lundrigan, said her son always put family first."He loved his siblings, he was with his younger brother every day, he brought him shopping, brought him out to eat all the time, he was always hanging around us – it was all about family," she said Tuesday.Three people were rushed to Stratford hospital after a Chrysler 300 crashed around 3:30 a.m. at the intersection of Embro Road and Erie Street, according to police. Millar was pronounced dead at hospital, police said. The intersection of Erie Street and Embro Road in Stratford was the scene of a fatal, single-car collision early Sunday morning. (Galen Simmons/The Beacon Herald) Favian Lee-Allert, a 19-year-old Burlington resident, has been charged with impaired driving causing death, police said. He was released on recognizance Monday and is scheduled to return to court on No...
https://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/news/local-news/car-crash-victim-19-remembered-as-a-family-man

My Son The Hurricane to launch "Ride The Bullet" tour in Stratford - The Beacon Herald

The 15-member, funk, brass, hip-hop behemoth, My Son The Hurricane, is set to launch its 2019 North-American tour at Stratford's Revival House March 1. Submitted photo Share Adjust Comment Print In less than three weeks, Stratford's Revival House will be the staging ground for Canada's only multi-horn, multi-drummer, multi-singer, brass, funk, progressive hip-hop band's seven-month, North-American tour promoting their upcoming album, "Ride the Bullet."The 15-member behemoth, My Son The Hurricane, has taken Canada by storm over the past few years, most recently playing venues from coast to coast and beyond as part of its 2018 Shape of Funk to Come tour. Hurricane has been featured on CBC Radio One, Much More Music, Exclaim!, Edge 102.1, Indie 88, and 97.7 HTZ-FM, and has collaborated with such bands as U.S.S., Pocket Dwellers, and D-Sisive.And to start off their 2019 tour right, band leader and drummer Danno O'Shea said there is almost no other Ontario venue he'd rather play than Revival House."Rob (Wigan, owner of Revival House,...
https://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/my-son-the-hurricane-to-launch-ride-the-bullet-tour-in-stratford

Eric Bunnell's People: Always room for the miniature - St. Thomas Times-Journal

Drayton, Ont., has become the little summer festival that not only could, it has.Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the company now is the third largest theatre festival in Ontario, after Stratford and Shaw.And currently working hard behind scenes in Cambridge is StT native Dariusz Korbiel, who is designing 150+ costumes - that's a lot! - for Drayton's coming production of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.It's the first professional Canadian regional theatre production of the musical about three Australian drag queens who board a "budget Barbie camper van" named Priscilla to find their fabulous selves in the Outback.Dariusz's credits incl. 2017 design assistant at Shaw Festival, and studying set and costume design at National Theatre School The show is up March 13-April 7 at Drayton's 398-seat St. Jacob's Country Playhouse, opening the season for the venue.Nominated for his work preserving the London region's past, Elgin County Museum curator Mike Baker, who was London Museum's regional history curator for 17 years before we snatched the Sparta resident for our own.He is one of six persons nominated for a 2019 London Heritage Awards advocacy award.Announcing candidates for the 12th annual tribute, the awards' sponsoring Architectural Conservancy of Ontario London and Heritage London Foundation, nod to Mike as a historian, author, speaker, heritage advocate, and former president of both ACO London and HLF.Nominated for recognition for heritage property conservation and reuse are Adam Carapella and Ian Campbell, in part for their "creative reuse" of the former London Street Railway's 1894 power plant building which now is shared by StT headquartered Braam's Custom Cabinets as the cabinetmaker's London showroom.(The sharp-looking property is at 2-3 Bathhurst St.) The awards, which attracted a record 19 nominations, are to be presented Feb. 21 at a gala at Delta Armouries Hotel, itself the creative reuse of the former London armouries.Meanwhile, Elgin museum is tuning up for a Musical Family Day on Feb. 18, announcing that Music Man Dr. Henry Meredith is hosting an afternoon 1-4 p.m. at Elgin Heritage Centre in connection with the museum's current exhibition celebrating two Ontario smalltown passions from bygone days, Brass Bands and Base Ball.Highlighting the many community bands which once flourished in Elgin, the exhibition is based on the noted Western University music prof's collection of rare 19th Century brass instruments. (Meredith loaned for Disney's remake of The Music Man.) Museumgoers will be able to try out instruments for a band. And Meredith will offer an antique band instrument road show, evaluating treasures from the attic.All ages and special children's activities, as well.Best of all, it's free!Movin' on is Suzanne Van Bommel, Belmont, who has resigned as chair of Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers for appointment as regulated marketing advisor to the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission and Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs.Queen's Park is familiar territory - Suzanne was executive assistant to then EML Liberal MPP Steve Peters as Ontario minister of agriculture, and minister of labour under premier Dalton McGuinty.Suzanne's new responsibilities are fourfold, quoth marketing commission chair Jim Clark:"Encourage and promote growth within Ontario's regulated marketing sector; encourage new food processing opportunities in t...
https://www.stthomastimesjournal.com/opinion/columnists/eric-bunnells-people-always-room-for-the-miniature

Betty McMillan, Stratford's first female mayor, dies - BlackburnNews.com

Betty McMillan, wearing the mayoral chain as Stratfords first female mayor in the 1970s. Photo courtesy of W.G. Young Funeral Home. Betty McMillan, Stratford’s first female mayor, dies By Mark BrownFebruary 18, 2019 8:24pm@markbrownradio A pioneer in Stratford politics has passed away. Betty McMillan, who served for many years as an alderman on Stratford municipal council and became Stratford’s first female mayor, died Saturday at the Spruce Lodge long-term care facility. She was 95. According to the obituary provided by W.G. Young Funeral Home, McMillan had worked as a teacher and a realtor before developing an interest in politics, having worked on several election campaigns. In addition to serving as mayor of Stratford in the 1970s, McMillan had also served on council and for one term on the Stratford Board of Education. Stratford Mayor Dan Mathieson tweeted his condolences to the McMillan family, calling McMillan a “kind, thoughtful and great leader...
https://blackburnnews.com/midwestern-ontario/midwestern-ontario-news/2019/02/18/betty-mcmillan-stratfords-first-female-mayor-dies/

Funeral homes warned to be prepared in advance of possible pandemic - Toronto Star

The agency notes the average attendance at a visitation in Prince Edward Island is 1,000 to 1,400 people.No special vehicle or driver’s licence is needed for transportation of the deceased, the agency states.“Therefore, there are no restrictions on families transporting bodies of family members if they have a death certificate.”Let's block ads! (Why?)...

Fall at construction site claims life of worker, 33 - OHS Canada

Canadian OH&S News) — A 33-year-old construction worker from Prince Edward Island has died after he fell off a roof in Calgary on July 24.A spokesperson with the Calgary Police Service (CPS) said that police had been called to a construction site on Mahogany Mews SE at about 3:20 p.m. that day, following reports of a male worker falling off a roof of a four-storey building.“He was confirmed deceased at the scene by EMS,” the spokesperson added. After the CPS determined that the death had been accidental, “we notified a medical examiner and Occupational Health and Safety in Alberta, and they’re now handling the investigation.”Shirley Lyn, public-affairs officer for the Alberta Ministry of Labour, confirmed that the Ministry’s oh&s department was investigating the incident, but could not provide further details.It was unclear at press time whether the victim was using fall-protection equipment at the time of the accident. “That’s part of the investigation,” said Lyn.The victim was later publicly identified as Tyler Wallace MacDonald, who was o...
http://www.ohscanada.com/fall-construction-site-claims-life-worker-33/

The real 'Father of Confederation' – Part 2 - Cumberland News Now - Cumberland News Now

Association of Canada and served as it’s first President.He constantly promoted the expansion of Canada as Minister of the Crown in the MacDonald administration. He assisted greatly in bringing Prince Edward Island into Confederation. He played a major role in the purchase of vast lands of the Hudson’s Bay Company, which made expansion westward possible leading eventually to the creation of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.No one believed more in the necessity to build a railroad to the Pacific Coast than Charles Tupper. He worked tirelessly on that front. In 1881, he personally visited the colony of British Columbia. At that time there was only one house in what eventually became the city of Vancouver. Yet Tupper foresaw and predicted a great metropolis.That same year, while Canadian High Commissioner in London, as well as Minister of Railways and Canals of Canada, the dream of a national railroad was in trouble. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company had encountered unforeseen problems and expenses and faced imminent financial collapse. Tupper rushed back from London and persuaded his party and Parliament to give the company a loan of 30 million dollars for four years at four percent. This is an example of the reason Charles Tupper is referred to as “the man behind the National Policy”. Building that railway and connecting the country from coast to coast was indeed a major accomplishment. Tupper himself, in one of his speeches, observed that 4 million citizens of Canada accomplished what it took 40 million Americans to do - build a railway to the Pacific.Of course we must not forget to mention strong support for the building of a canal across the isthmus of Chignecto. When the prospect of a ship railway appeared and looked feasible, he supported that with all his might. It did not come to pass, and is a long story for another time, but not due to any lack of support from Charles Tupper. Charles Tupper was first knighted in 1868 and was named a Baronet of the United Kingdom in 1888 in recognition of his service to the Empire. After he retired from the Canadian Parliament, he and his wife moved to England where he lived until his death in 1915. He often visited Canada, however, because he had children and grandchildren from coast to coast.In England he continued his public service. He sat on the executive committee of the British Empire League,which also allowed him to promote closer economic ties and the welfare of Canada in general. As an emissary of the British Crown he travelled to various capital cities of Europe. For his service to the Empire he was made a knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George ...
http://www.cumberlandnewsnow.com/opinion/columnists/2017/6/30/the-real-_father-of-confederation--part-2.html