Sarnia’s unofficial firehouse Dalmatians are
a hit.
Lucky and Clover are owned by firefighter
Trevor Mitchell and his wife Melissa and have become stars of fire prevention
messages and presentations by Mike Otis, the city fire service’s fire life
safety educator.
“Kids especially love them,” Otis said.
But, some adults are just as excited to see
Lucky and Clover on social media posts or fire hall tours, he added.
Lucky was visiting the East Street Fire Hall
earlier this week to be part of a photo for a campaign collecting donations of
new socks for the Inn of the Good Shepherd when a woman drove by and spotted
him.
Mitchell said she pulled into the parking lot
and came into the fire hall, ‘over the moon’ to see a Dalmatian at the fire
hall.
Otis said that when he leads a fire safety
presentation or fire hall tour without the Dalmatians, he’ll often hear,
“Where’s Lucky?”
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Lambton College opened two-thirds of its
$47-million expansion this week as it welcomed 3,300 full-time, post-secondary
students to a new semester.
The initial student total is a 5.7 per cent
increase over last year but students can still apply until Sept. 18, said
college spokesperson Cindy Buchanan.
There were 906 foreign students enrolled at
the Sarnia campus as of Wednesday. That’s up from 617 last year.
“There are more than 20 countries, our
students are coming from,” Buchanan said.
When part-time students, apprenticeship
students and students at its campuses in Mississauga, Toronto and China are
added, “we’re over 13,000 students, worldwide,” she said.
The college broke ground in 2016 on major
construction work stretching across three projects at its Sarnia campus.
The Centre of Excellence in Energy and
Bio-Industrial Technologies was created by renovations to the south end of the
college’s main Sarnia campus building, as well as an addition.
An official opening ceremony is set for Sept.
20 but students and staff moved in this week.
Image. (Handout Photo)
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From Sue Wastell, Special to
Postmedia News
Builders invest considerable energy and funds
into constructing and furnishing model homes, knowing that home buyers need to
be able to see the size of rooms and traffic flow.
Visualizing a home from a
blueprint can be challenging even for experienced builders, let alone for
people looking to build their dream home.
A model home with an open concept floor plan
will allow you to stand at the stove and the sink, both common standing spots
in real life, and see a true picture of how much you will be able to oversee
behaviour in the family room — or the line of sight to the TV for your own
viewing pleasure while you are busy creating gastronomic masterpieces in the
kitchen.
It will also show the pattern of movement
required to clean up the table afterward and load the dishwasher and even the
path from the dishwasher to the appropriate cabinet.
A colleague recently confided that she missed
this last point in a home she had built. She didn’t realize until too late,
that the dishwasher was at the wrong end of the island; resulting in her trying
to lessen trips back and forth by carrying bigger piles of heavy dishes in each
trip. Functionality is truly in the details and models give you the opportunity
to test drive a layout!
Model homes are also used to display a
variety of finishing and decor options. Where better to see of line of pot
lights in the ceiling, or types of flooring and cabinets, shelving and
pull-outs, sinks, faucets and showers or countertop and backsplash options etc.
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