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Windsor’s Poet Laureate Emeritus Marty Gervais and Poet Laureate Mary Ann Mulhern are bringing poetry to the Windsor community in an innovative way.
Throughout April, “Windsor’s Resilient Voices” is placing short six-line inspirational poems on interior advertisement spaces on Transit Windsor buses, social media, and throughout select City of Windsor facilities including the WFCU Centre Vaccination Clinic.
The poems have been written and submitted by area poets and focus on the theme of “Resilience.”
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The League of Canadian Poets selected “Resilience” as the theme for National Poetry Month this year, explaining the theme as follows: “What does it mean to be resilient? We meet resilience in every corner we’ve ever been backed into, every hardship that we endure. Resilience is geographical, spiritual, historical. It’s the fight against climate change, the inner battle with mental health, the outcry
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Publishing date: Feb 01, 2021 • February 1, 2021 • 3 minute read • Folks like you and I. Local photographer and author Douglas MacLellan has published a new book on the homeless who frequent Windsor s Downtown Mission, called The Mission. In the book, MacLellan focuses on some of the visitors and staff. Photo by Nick Brancaccio /Windsor Star
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Photographer Douglas MacLellan brings into focus the faces of homelessness and exposes their life stories through their own words in his latest book The Mission.
MacLellan, 61, a Windsor-based photographer and former Hockey Hall of Fame lensman who for decades has documented people who have fallen on hard times, set out last year to reveal the circumstances of homelessness in Windsor.
So long to Windsor s risque landmark: Studio 4 and its racy sign have been sold
It s a sight that s familiar to anyone who s driven down Huron Church Road a woman in a bright red bikini, next to a massive number 4. But the sign you can t miss won t be there for much longer. Westdell Development Corp. has purchased Studio 4 and plans to demolish it.
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Posted: Jan 27, 2021 5:01 AM ET | Last Updated: January 27
Windsor strip club Studio 4 has been sold. The new owners say they plan to demolish the property on Huron Church Road, and its landmark sign.(Dan Taekema/CBC)