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Wednesday, March 4 , 2026
Coldest Night of the Year draws 160 walkers, fundraising continuing Walkers head out from the Amherstburg Community Hub during Amherstburg’s Coldest Night of the Year last Saturday evening. Proceeds from the local event will benefit The House Youth Centre and the programming they offer. The House is located within the Hub.
By Ron Giofu Walkers hit the street for the sixth straight year in support of The House Youth Centre. This year’s Amherstburg’s Coldest Night of the Year was held last Saturday evening with the starting and ending points being the Amherstburg Community Hub, where The House is based. As of press time, they had raised $30,427 or 60 per cent of their $50,000 goal. There were 160 walkers, 27 teams and 55 volunteers with 2K and 5K routes available. Despite the walk being over for this year, fundraising continues for another month. Morghan Shearon, program director with The House, noted this is also the six year for The House being located in the Hub at 320 Richmond St., and their numbers are coming back up. Overall, The House has been helping local youth for over 50 years. “We’ve been slowly growing our community back at The House,” said Shearon. The House has peer mentorship programs for students in Grades 9-12 as part of its list of services and programs, with Shearon noting the Grade 12 group organized a meeting for the Grade 10 group. She said the House has “an amazing group of kids”
and that she would vouch for every one of them. “Our kids are kind and dedicated,” said Shearon. All four of their peer mentorship programs were in the top ten of fundraising as of Saturday night’s event. Shearon said she has been associated with The House for 15 years, having gone through the program as a youth and now back as program director. She is the only paid employee. “I see the improvements we are making in all of our kids,” she said. “We hope to be here for another 50 years.” Amy Bailey, a board member and head of the fund development committee, said she also went through the program as a youth and now has been involved with it in some form for 30 years. Bailey said they have a lot of support with North Star High School joining this year. The leadership class walked, with Bailey said they are getting more involved with the high school and hope to get into other schools to educate youth about their services. “We want to get your kids in our doors,” she said. “Life is challenging. Let us be the support that gets you through this.”
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Doug Benekritis, Unifor chair in the Diageo Amherstburg plant, speaks to the media after the final shift last Wednesday.
Diageo plant officially closes By Ron Giofu
It was an end of an era in Amherstburg last Wednesday afternoon. Workers filed out of the Diageo bottling plant in Amherstburg for the last time, many hugging each other and others shedding a tear or two. The company announced last August it would close the St. Arnaud St. facility this month and followed through, albeit a couple days earlier than anticipated. Unifor, the union that represented the workers in the plant, said the Crown Royal bottling facility was closed two days ahead of schedule “without advance warning to the workers.” “This is a final show of disrespect for Canadian workers as Diageo moves their jobs south of the border to appease Donald Trump,” said Unifor national president Lana Payne, in a statement. “This is a sad day for our members and for this community, which has a century long storied history of whisky making.” Unifor said Diageo announced plans to close the Amherstburg plant six months ago “and eliminate the jobs of more than 200 Unifor Local 200 members.”
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