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Stormy summer sight in C-K
Image courtesy Mark Robinson/The Weather Network
Storm hunter Mark Robinson with The Weather Network captured an incredible image of a shelf cloud just outside Tilbury last week. A shelf cloud is a low, horizontal, arcus cloud that is typically attached to the base of a parent cloud, which is usually a thunderstorm cumulonimbus cloud. Robinson said he regularly hunts for violent weather in southwestern Ontario.
Friendships forged across the pond
By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
The leadership and actions of a Chatham-Kent man decades ago has helped forged a lasting friendship between his descendants and residents of a small French village. In August of 1944, Maj. Keith Crummer of Chatham and his company became the first Allied soldiers to cross the Seine
River during the Second from Paris. World War. It was at a Members of the major’s small French town named family will head overseas Criquebeuf-sur-Seine, later this summer to celeand the men had to use brate the 75th anniversary their trench of Crummer shovels as “It will be the largest and the Linoars after family-related get-tocoln and finding an We l l a n d gether that we’ve ever Regiment’s abandoned had.” rowboat. feat, and C r i q u e - Diane Teetzel to connect beuf lies in with an exa gentle bend in the Seine tended family of sorts – River, south of Rouen, the people of Criquebeuf. about an hour’s drive Diane Teetzel, one of
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Keith’s daughters, said a large contingent of his descendants, as well as other family members, will travel. In total, 27 plan to make the trip, 19 of which are from North America, while another eight are actually in France. “It will be the largest family-related get-together that we’ve ever had,” she said. And it will take place across the Atlantic Ocean.
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