From left, Grant Monroe -Marketing-Publicity for Biblioasis, Mary Ann Mulhearn – poet, Robert Earl Stewart- poet, and Percy Hatfield – MPP Windsor-Tecumseh, during a ceremony to honour local poets and authors and recognize the $176,000 grants from the Ontario Arts Council to the local arts community. The special event was held at Biblioasis Bookstore and publishing on Wyandotte Street east in Windsor, Ontario. Many area authors and poets were honoured. (JASON KRYK/The Windsor Star)
Calvin Lowe, 15, scrubs the baby Tembo elephant sculpture along the riverfront on Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. Dozens of volunteers, young and old, participated in the event which was held in partnership with the YMCA of Windsor and Essex County and the city’s cultural affairs department. (DYLAN KRISTY/The Windsor Star)
Lukas Lavoie, 3, scrubs the baby Tembo elephant sculpture along the riverfront on Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. Dozens of volunteers, young and old, participated in the event which was held in partnership with the YMCA of Windsor and Essex County and the city’s cultural affairs department. (DYLAN KRISTY/The Windsor Star)
A young volunteer scrubs Tembo the elephant sculpture’s tusk along the riverfront on Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. Dozens of volunteers, young and old, participated in the event which was held in partnership with the YMCA of Windsor and Essex County and the city’s cultural affairs department. (DYLAN KRISTY/The Windsor Star)
New Beginnings’ Jobs For Youth graduates Taylor Hryniw, left, Hayder Abdeljabar, Amberelaine Bailey, Tayla Goulet and Jalyn Gaudette, right, are poster employees for the program as they celebrate at Teutonia Club August 21, 2015. New Beginnings had 240 youth entered for full-time summer employment. (NICK BRANCACCIO/The Windsor Star) See story.
New Beginnings’ Jobs For Youth graduates Taylor Hryniw, left, Jalyn Gaudette, Hayder Abdeljabar, Tayla Goulet and Amberelaine Bailey, right, are poster employees for the program as they celebrate at Teutonia Club August 21, 2015. New Beginnings had 240 youth entered youth for full-time summer employment. (NICK BRANCACCIO/The Windsor Star)
Beth Daly, a professor at the University of Windsor who was paralyzed from the waist down when she fell from her horse last year, puts on her supports at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan – Centre for Spinal Cord Injury Recovery in Detroit Michigan, Friday, August 21, 2015. (DAX MELMER/The Windsor Star)
Beth Daly, centre, a professor at the University of Windsor who was paralyzed from the waist down when she fell from her horse last year, uses a body weight support treadmill at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan – Centre for Spinal Cord Injury Recovery in Detroit Michigan, Friday, August 21, 2015. (DAX MELMER/The Windsor Star)
Beth Daly, centre, a professor at the University of Windsor who was paralyzed from the waist down when she fell from her horse last year, uses a body weight support treadmill at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan – Centre for Spinal Cord Injury Recovery in Detroit Michigan, Friday, August 21, 2015. (DAX MELMER/The Windsor Star)
C.O.A.S.T. members Const. Carol Bender, left, and Ivanka Simeunovic, seated, visit with Linda Banks at her apartment complex Friday August 14, 2015. (NICK BRANCACCIO/The Windsor Star)
C.O.A.S.T. members Stephanie Bula, Ivanka Simeunovic and Windsor Police Constable Carol Bender check an apartment on Sandwich Street Friday August 14, 2015. (NICK BRANCACCIO/The Windsor Star)
C.O.A.S.T. members Const. Carol Bender, left, Ivanka Simeunovic and Stephanie Bula, right, make a house call in West Windsor in Friday August 14, 2015. (NICK BRANCACCIO/The Windsor Star)
University of Windsor graduate Sara Santarossa promotes Kinect-Ed — a program which encourages young students to cook and help with dinner. (JASON KRYK/The Windsor Star)
Reporters Trevor Wilhelm (left) and Craig Pearson (right) find a cache of clues at Enigma Escape Rooms on Aug. 20, 2015. (Tyler Brownbridge / The Windsor Star)
Putting the pieces together at Enigma Escape Rooms on Aug. 20, 2015. (Tyler Brownbridge / The Windsor Star)
Alex Miller, president of Enigma Escape Rooms, introduces Windsor Star news staff to The Professor’s Office on Aug. 20, 2015. (Tyler Brownbridge / The Windsor Star)
Carol Stagg cleans up at The Bistro at the River after the restaurant was broken into early Friday morning. (NICK BRANCACCIO/The Windsor Star)
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