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Written by the windsoriteDOTca News Staff on the 25th of July, 2025. Below is NOT the full article*. Please visit the link and support local news -- all it takes is visiting the website.

"The Optimist Club of South Windsor will host its second Picnic in the Park event of the summer, combining fun and fellowship with a focused effort to support Drouillard Place and Matthew House Windsor.

The event will take place on Sunday, July 27th, from 12:00pm to 2:00pmat Mic Mac Park – Pavilion 6."

"'This isn’t just about hot dogs and fun,' said a spokesperson for the Optimist Club. 'This is about showing up for our neighbours and supporting the amazing work of Drouillard Place and Matthew House Windsor — organizations that make a real difference every single day.'

Drouillard Place provides services and outreach to support children, youth, and families in Windsor’s east end. Matthew House Windsor offers shelter and essential resources for refugee claimants and displaced individuals as they rebuild their lives in Canada."

Glad to see some good work being put in to make Windsor a better and more accommodating place. If anyone has some old (but not expired!) cans or dry goods to spare, go visit the park tomorrow drop it off, and grab yourself a hotdog while you can.

Just curious, I don't know if this feature would be in fedecans or lemmy's court to implement. I just know that it would be quite helpful to further develop communities.

If so, I hope it works with old.lemmy. I can't stand any other formats and it already frustrates me that certain features don't work with this format.

Quotes are directly from the article. Below is NOT the full article. Visit the link for the full text. Written by Dave Waddell of the Windsor Star, on the 11th of July, 2025.

"Less foreign students and more residential units in the local marketplace means Windsor area renters are getting cost-of-living relief. Article content

“There’s just an overwhelming inventory. It’s almost a renters’ market,” said Goldmar Property Management owner Patrice Surette.

“What we’re seeing is tons of listings and they’re not moving as quickly,” adds Dan Gemus, co-owner of Dan Gemus Real Estate Team."

"Surette describes the past year not so much as a price decline as a market adjustment.

“Maybe the market was overly inflated, but the market is coming back to where the rents should be,” Surette told the Star. “It’s great for tenants."

Looks promising! Lower rents is better for everyone.

Vilain Pingouin -- meaning Ugly Penguin in English, is a Quebecois rock band that has been active ever since 1986. Originally playing in English rock bands, the singer/guitarist Rudy Caya and the drummer Michel Vaillancourt wish to expand into more franophone music, originally forming a band called "Les Taches", until they expanded the band more and called themselves Vilain Pingouin.

Information sourced from the bands wikipedia page. Further information from the band itself it available on their website, including oncoming tour dates and merch!

vilainpingouin.com

As someone learning french, I must say this band is quite nice. The music is quite nice, and the lyrics are clearly pronounced well enough that I can follow along without much difficulty.

Junkhouse was a considerable force in the 1980s-1990s Canadian alternative rock scene, but disbanded in 1998, but have been sporadically active throughout the last few decades. Wikipedia has them listed as currently active, although there has not been any new songs since 1998.

A good portion of the band has passed away. In a most Canadian fashion, the second guitarist Dan Aachen actually passed away from a heart attack while playing hockey.

See Spot Run is from Montreal, Quebec. Their music features both French and English lyrics/titles, from all throughout their over 3 decades of music making -- since 1993.

The band is seemingly still active, but their last new music release was 9 years ago, in 2016.

Dan rolls is part of the Canadian coin collecting community. He regularly does live streams on youtube showing him coin hunting (opening up rolls of coins from the bank in hopes of finding rare coins) and metal detecting around Canada, in I believe the Niagara region of Ontario.

You can talk to Dan as well as other passionate coin collectors in the very friendly and active canadian coin collectors discord! You can find their subreddit and the discord link at r/CanadianCoins. Foreign coin collectors are allowed into the discord -- a significant number of the community is actually foreign!

If you like homesteading, DIY repairing, and the beautiful scenic views of the East coast, you'll likely enjoy this channel! As per the title, the channel now focuses on the repairing of an off grid house on an island off the coast of Newfoundland. The older videos feature Matty Clarke doing outdoors videos in places all across Canada, but has since chosen to settle down on the island with his wife Kelly Clarke. Together, the two regularly post videos about their time fixing up the homestead.

sundayclub is another up and coming Canadian band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. This is their first song with Paper Bag Records, with the primary artists being Courtney Carmichael and Nikki St. Pierre.

Being very very new, you can can find more info about them their social links in the description of their youtube video.

Looking to make a theme with my posts rather than haphazardly posting random songs, I think for today I'm going to focus on new music rather than posting to oldies and well known songs.

Anyone think that making themed days/weeks/months would be fun? I think something simple like "New Music Monday" could be cool.

This is a newer and upcoming Canadian band from Montreal! They are about to drop their first full length album in two days on the 11th of July. Learn more about them at https://www.mothland.com/karma-glider.

Apologies for the delay in posts! I just moved back home to Canada and was busy getting into the grove of life here but things are settling down and I will have free time to make more posts! I really appreciate everyone that kept this and my other communities active while I was away for a bit.

It's good to be back home in Canada!

Canada's Really Big is from Arrogant Worms' 1997 album Live Bait, released in 1997. The band is from Kingston, Ontario, and is still active with all of its original band members! Their songs are focused on comedy with a focus on Canadian topics.