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401 baby, mom say ‘thanks’ A year after giving birth to her son on Highway 401 in Chatham-Kent, Lindsay Margeson came back to give her thanks to local paramedics, via the Chatham-Kent Children’s Safety Village. While many adults in Chatham-Kent were getting into their Irish spirit on St. Patrick’s Day last year, a very pregnant Margeson was just trying to get home to Brantford. Meanwhile, her soon-tobe born son had a different idea. Margeson left Wallaceburg with the intent of getting home to Brantford, only to reach the
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edge of Chatham-Kent before calling 911. “Last St. Patrick’s Day, I went into labour in Wallaceburg. I decided to try to make it home to Brantford. I got to Orford Road,” Margeson said. “But I realized the baby was coming, so I called 911 and had no idea where I was.” Paramedics were dispatched from Chatham-Kent as well as Elgin County. The C-K team wound up transporting Margeson west towards Chatham, intent on getting her to hospital for the birth of her fourth child. They didn’t make it. “He was delivered on the 401. He wasn’t waiting,” Margeson said of her son
Hunter. “The paramedics were beyond amazing.” Margeson said when the contractions began in Wallaceburg, where she was visiting the father of her children, she didn’t think anything of driving home. After all, her three other sons arrived on time, not early. Hunter, however, had another plan. But it also helped his mother avoid giving birth in the hospital. She said she prefers having home births. “The benefit of delivering in an ambulance is I didn’t have to stay overnight in the hospital,” she said. “I stayed overnight in Wallaceburg and drove home the next day.”
of Commerce, took place at Club Lentinas and highlighted the work of a number of area businesses and individuals. Chatham Coun. Brock McGregor said the entrepreneur is alive and well in Chatham-Kent. “Ninety per cent of the
jobs created are done so through small business. We (the municipality) have helped 113 new (business) starts in the past year,” he said. The corporate citizen of the year award went to Habitat for Humanity.
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Hundreds of local business owners and professionals attended the 130th annual Business Excellence Awards April 12. The event, put on by the Chatham-Kent Chamber
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More than 100 powerline students took part in the St. Clair College Powerline Rodeo Thursday, showing off what they’ve learned to family members, as well as potential employers. The event, which was delayed at times due to high winds, took place in the powerline field on Bear Line across from the Thames campus of the college.
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