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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thespec.com | Fernando Arce
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
therecord.com | Fernando Arce
With students performing at or above the provincial average across all indicators over a three-year trend, the Lambton Kent District School Board (LKDSB) has shown significant progress in the 2023-24 Ontario Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) assessments. The EQAO assessments, conducted throughout the 2023-24 school year, tested students in Primary (Grade 3), Junior (Grade 6), Grade 9 Mathematics, and the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT).
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
thespec.com | Fernando Arce
Hundreds of nursing students and other learners are coming to the Halton Region to learn about and eventually help alleviate the region- and demographic-specific issues affecting each community.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
burlingtontoday.com | Fernando Arce
Optical Coherence Tomography — or OCT — might be hard to pronounce, but it is an extremely easy and important procedure for your eyes.
That’s the message Halton's own Col. Chris Hadfield — the first Canadian to walk in space — is delivering in a new multifaceted ad-campaign from Specsavers, an optometrist-owned and -led business operating in B.C., Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
thespec.com | Fernando Arce
John Howitt still remembers the day he found two grade 5 students who had run away from home and had been missing for three days walking along a sidewalk nearly 20 kilometres from their school. Howitt was vice principal at the time, but his duties didn’t end when the bell rang. “After work those three days they were missing, I searched for a few hours from my car before heading home,” he recalls.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
thespec.com | Fernando Arce
Known for its greenhouses and tomatoes, Leamington is also home to thousands of migrant agricultural workers every year. On Sunday, Sept. 15, over 1500 community members and more than 20 local organizations gathered in Seacliff Park to meet and thank some of those workers during the 15th annual Festival of Guest Nations.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
thespec.com | Fernando Arce
Tilbury’s annual Terry Fox Run, which happened on Sunday, Sept 15, brought in about $24,000 in donations for cancer research — the largest amount in over 18 years, organizers said. “It takes a full team,” said Mark Authier, former Tilbury Ward 1 councillor and co-chair of Tilbury’s Terry Fox Run, which this year began at the Tilbury Arena. “With COVID being over, we’ve been getting more people out, and getting word out a little more as well,” he said.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
thespec.com | Fernando Arce
We wouldn’t send doctors into the ER without their scrubs and specialized medical tools, or astronauts into space without a shuttle and suits. So why should children go to school without new clothes and supplies? That’s what the Halton Learning Foundation is hoping to change through their 2024 Back to School campaign, which has reached 50 per cent of its goal, successfully helping over 150 students in the Halton District School Board with clothes and school supplies.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
thespec.com | Fernando Arce
The 36th annual Eden Mills Writers’ Festival went without a hitch this past Sunday, Sept. 8, but organizers say its future depends on securing enough funding through donations as ticket sales only cover a fraction of their costs. “It was a make-or-break year for us, and while we’re thrilled with the festival experience, we still have a lot of work to do to ensure funding continues for next year,” board chair Theresa Ebden told the Milton Reporter.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
broadview.org | Fernando Arce
It was after 11 p.m. in September 2023 when pastor Kofi Danso found Martina Mutunga walking alone in the dark, away from the Miracle for All Nations Church in Vaughan, O.N. Miracle for All Nations was one of the many churches that had opened their doors to temporarily house African asylum seekers while the City of Toronto wrestled with the federal government for more money to open additional shelter spaces for the influx of claimants.
