Category: Community
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Supercrawl festival returns to Hamilton this weekend
COVERAGE BY CHAD MASON AND MARKO WOLOSHYN From Friday through Sunday, James St will be closed down for the sixth annual Supercrawl music and arts festival. The free event is set to feature dozens of bands, food trucks, visual artists and guest speakers. The event kicks off Thursday with politically charged rap collective A Tribe…
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Festival brings life to Kerr Street
STORY BY SAMANTHA MAICH The First Annual Kerr Festival, hosted by Kerr Village, is the largest event to come to Kerr since the Santa Claus Parade. Unlike the parade, however, the festival ran for 10 hours and a wide variety of onlookers crowded the streets of Downtown Oakville throughout the day. “They ate fire!” Gabriella…
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Beach Celtic Festival 2014
VIDEO BY LINDA HERMIZ The Beach Celtic Festival is a tradition that has been going on since 2004. Created by Sandy Graham, the festival is held to honour the Scottish, Irish and Welsh culture. When Graham’s mother passed away 11 years ago, she asked her family and friends not to mourn her, but to celebrate…
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Celebration Square is Awemazing for the anual AwesTruck
STORY AND PHOTOS BY DYLAN PAISLEY Celebration Square experienced both rain and shine last weekend for its first ever SoundBites event. SoundBites is a two-day open-air festival featuring music, movies and food trucks. “This is the first year of the event and we are excited to make this an annual thing at Celebration Square,” said…
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Peel cops cuff cancer at HMC shave-off
STORY AND PHOTOS BY VANESSA GILLIS It all started with one little boy who lost his hair to cancer. Cops for Cancer is an program that began in Edmonton in 1994 when 5-year-old Lyle Jorgenson lost his hair after going through cancer treatment. Sergeant Gary Goulet was visiting Jorgenson’s school when he saw other kids…
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A truly Canadian tradition
INFOGRAPHIC BY VANESSA GILLIS STORY AND PHOTOS BY JONATHAN FERGUSON AND VANESSA GILLIS //
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Marketing student event helps Sick Kids
STORY AND PHOTO BY GREG LOWENTHAL Hazel McCallion Campus was in high gear on March 21 for Carnival Day. The event was organized by the Marketing program as an incentive for students to earn grades, but the ultimate goal was to raise money for the Sick Kids Hospital Foundation. Jake Hernandez, a Marketing student, explained…
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Oakville Place is Just Dancing this March Break
STORY AND PHOTOS BY DYLAN PAISLEY Oakville Place has been moving all week with its Just Dance 2014 March Break dance off. The competition last week to promote the mall and was to entertain kids on March Break. “Well I know other shopping centres have done it with Guitar Hero. The game seems to be…
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Pie for Pi Day
STORY BY PALWASHA TEMOR Apple, pumpkin and lemon, oh my! These are just a few types of pies that Sheridan’s Davis Campus served last Friday to commemorate Pi Day. Pi Day is a day celebrated around the world to honour the mathematical equation, and is held on the third month and 14th day. It is…
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Terra Greenhouse Farmer’s Market
STORY BY WILLIAM DIXON Terra Greenhouses has been holding a weekly farmer’s market every Saturday, allowing local businesses the chance to reach out to new customers. One business benefitting from the market is Milton’s own Kettle Corn Boss, run by Herb Sickinger, a Sheridan Business grad. “It’s a family business,” said Sickinger as his son…
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Photographer follows silver lining upwards
STORY BY ERIN QUEENAN With chocolate brown hair, and eyes that light up like the same LED bulbs used in her photography series Portals, Christa Giula shines authenticity. It’s an attribute which is sure to get her far as things start to happen for the third year Bachelor of Photography student. Last month her work,…
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Students sought to foster friendly felines
[wzslider lightbox=”true”] STORY AND PHOTOS BY CHRIS COUTTS The Oakville and Milton Humane Society has the purr-fect solution for students seeking companionship, responsibility or endless cuddling: fostering cats. Brenda Dushko considers students to be ideal foster parents for animals as pets can be great source of companionship without a long-time commitment. “College life is a…