Carol’s Unisex Hair Design held their latest food drive for the food bank at Amherstburg Community Services. The salon focused on cereal, collecting 280 boxes. That beat their record of 240 boxes. The donation was presented to ACS executive director Kathy DiBartolomeo (back row, left) and her team Feb. 27. Also pictured are hairstylists Carol Charette (front), Vivienne Wood, Sam Woltz and Stephanie Borrelli. Cereal drive

Jessica Pedlar, a community connector with the P2P Neighbourhoods program at ACS, speaks at a meeting last Thursday morning at Amherstburg Community Services. Community meeting held regarding ACS's P2P Neighbourhood project By Ron Giofu The Pathway to Potential (P2P) project that has come to Amherstburg took another step forward last week. The local P2P Neighbourhoods program is being overseen locally by Amherstburg Community Services (ACS) with a community meeting being held

Doug Benekritis, Unifor chair in the Diageo Amherstburg plant, speaks to the media after the final shift last Wednesday. 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 anticipate