
A teaching placement facilitated by Free The Children took Beamsville resident Selina Henderson to to the rural Kenyan community of Maasai Mara.

Beamsville resident Selina Henderson has only just started her teaching career but she may have already had the class of a lifetime after teaching a group of 60 students in the rural Kenyan community of Maasai Mara.
Grimsby resident Paul Murphy says a three-way stop will increase traffic safety at the intersection of Casablanca Blvd. and North Service Road.
Open Arms Mission opened its new thrift store, Redeemed Goods, on Crowland Avenue recently. As well as selling reasonably priced items, the store also will work as a training ground for the mission's clients, said executive director Jerry Vanderklok, pictured along with store manager Rachelle Anderson.
Thousands of people visited Bay Beach last Thursday afternoon in search of a break from the heat. Hundreds went swimming despite a warning from public health officials to stay out of the water because of what it deemed unacceptable levels of E. coli in the water.
Alison Nicholls recently returned from a trip to Kenya, where she taught English and math and played with children in an orphanage. The Fort Erie native and Brock University student says she experienced more of a culture shock when she returned home than when she arrived in the African country.
From left, Rick Schaus, Glen Hoffman, Ed Lewis and Ross McCallum are teaming up off the greens to support the Weekend to End Breast Cancer walk in Toronto in September. The men will walk as part of the team Flexo Flip Flops and are planning a charity barbecue on Saturday.
Korey Davis, right, harvests sweet grass while Kenny Jones, front, and Alex Jamieson, left work in the garden in the medicine wheel used for Eco Circles at Debbie Sexmith's farm.
Cutting the ribbon at the official opening of the new Tangarine Concepts Corp. headquarters on Commerce Place were, from left, Brian York, economic development officer for the City of St. Catharines, Mayor Brian McMullan, Tangarine president and CEO Keith Turner and St. Catharines riding MPP Jim Bradley.
Linda Urban, left, co-owner of A Healthier You on Garrison Road, with staff member Gizella Varga-Colby and co-owner Cheryl Urbanski, say proposed changes to the Food and Drugs Act could put them out of business.