Tara Jeffrey

Nov 7, 2024 | cbc.ca | Tara Jeffrey

London·NewThe Lambton Kent District School Board in southwestern Ontario spent over $32,000 to send three staff members to an education conference in Hawaii this year, according to documents obtained by CBC. "There was no question that the quality of the conference met the needs of attendees," the board's education director says.

Sep 18, 2024 | thespec.com | Tara Jeffrey

“It is urgent that Council understand that the City’s failures over emergency management communications have potentially endangered our citizens,” Coun. Bill Dennis stated at last week’s council meeting. He pointed to changes in 2023 including the city’s full-time Community Emergency Management Co-ordinator (CEMC) being deemed ‘redundant.’ As a result, the CEMC role was moved to Sarnia Fire Rescue Services, specifically added to the portfolio of the deputy chief.

Sep 16, 2024 | thespec.com | Tara Jeffrey

Recent changes in course offerings at a Sarnia high school have left some families scrambling for answers, and worried their children will fall through the cracks. “We were so excited for Nolan to go to AMSS,” Stacey Brown said of her 13-year-old son’s plans to enrol next year at Sarnia’s Alexander Mackenzie Secondary School, the only high school in Lambton-Kent that provides specialized programming for students with learning, intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Sep 11, 2023 | thesarniajournal.ca | Tara Jeffrey

By Tara JeffreyWhen Abby Spadafora and Melanie Hunt were making headlines as rising stars in Canadian gymnastics twenty years ago, they were celebrated by the entire community. Many of us recall them as Abby Pearson and Mel Rocca (both now married with children of their own), elite local athletes who helped put the Bluewater Gymnastics Club on the map.