A local family has lost everything, after an explosion leveled their Dover home on Saturday afternoon (Dec. 3.) Four local stations, and 22 firefighters battled a blaze at 8477 Wren Line in Dover, after the blast was reported at around 1:10pm on Saturday. Fire officials say $300,000 damage was caused, and the home just outside [...]
As Rick Hansen’s Many In Motion tour captivated Chatham-Kent last week, many local community members re-lived memories of days gone by. In fact, locally and nationally, 25 years of the “Man in Motion” were celebrated. Re-live it all in this 2-part interview as 99.1 CKXS’ Jay Smith had the pleasure of speaking to Rick Hansen [...]
You have ONE LAST CHANCE to help the XS Drive For Hunger this Friday, December 2 at Sobey’s in Wallaceburg! The holiday season is right around the corner. And with the Christmas festivities comes a need to give back to our local community. The last few years have been hard times for our local food [...]
ARTICLE AND PHOTO COURTESY OF CHATHAM-KENT SPORTS NETWORK (CKSN.ca) It was a dream season for the Wallaceburg Tartans senior football team. They went undefeated in the regular season posting a perfect 6-0 record, only to extend that to 8-0 on route to their first senior Kent Football Championship in more than a decade. They followed [...]
99.1 CKXS’ very own Greg Hetherington and Gary Patterson are among the ten finalist nominees to represent Chatham-Kent as the Santa Claus Parade Marshall for Chatham’s November 18th parade. You can vote NOW by visiting downtownchatham.com or by clicking HERE! The poll is located on the bottom right hand side of the page! Let’s show [...]
He’s making his list and checking it twice! Ready or not, this Saturday (Nov. 12), the big, jolly guy in the red suit will be making his way to Wallaceburg! The Knights of Pythtas 42nd annual Christmas Parade kicks off at 2pm with a “Toys In Toyland” theme this year. The parade route will begin [...]
STORY, PHOTO AND VIDEO COURTESY OF IAN KENNEDY & THE CHATHAM-KENT SPORTS NETWORK (CKSN.ca) After years of making it to the big game only to be disappointed, the Wallaceburg Tartans were crowned Kent Senior Football Champion Saturday after they defeated the CKSS Golden Hawks 38-12. Jonah Pataki lead the Wallaceburg District Secondary School offense scoring [...]
Story courtesy of the Chatham-Kent Daily Post (CKDP.ca) One of the last opportunities to hear from local candidates in the Lambton-Kent-Middlesex riding took place on Wednesday evening from local Wallaceburg radio station 99.1 CKXS studios. Six local candidates were on hand for the evening including NDP Joe Hill, Family Coalition Marinus Vander Vloet, Conservative Monte [...]
The 2011 Provincial Election is coming up quick and local candidates are busy on the campaign trail in preparation of the Oct. 6 election. Various debates are taking place, and have been held already across the Municipality. We’ll be live from 99.1 CKXS studios this Wednesday (September 28th) as we hold a live on-air debate [...]
UPDATE: WE’RE BACK TO FULL POWER AS OF 5 PM TUESDAY! THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE, CONCERN AND PATIENCE! We may be sounding a little different in your radio today. During a brief storm that hit the Wallaceburg area yesterday, what we believe was a lightning strike hit our tower and dismantled our on [...]
