Over 1500 people participated in Windsor Regional Hospital’s first Heart Breaker Challenge, a 7km obstacle run held at Malden Park, Saturday, May 4, 2013. The Tough Mudder inspired event raised an estimated $30,000 for the hospital’s Cardiac Wellness Centre and pulmonary rehab program.
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D. Alexander Bullock, senior pastor of the Greater St. Matthew Baptist Church and president of the Highland Park NAACP, speaks at a rally protesting the appointment of an Emergency Financial Manager for the City of Detroit, March 7, 2013.
The sun peeks through the clouds as it sets over the Detroit River, Monday, March 11, 2013.
Former Spitfire and 2010 first overall pick, Taylor Hall, watches from the bench as his Edmonton Oilers take on the Detroit Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena, Thursday, March 7, 2013.
Jake Robert, 18, left, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare blood disease, severe aplastic anemia, that affects only three in one million. His identical twin brother, Josh, has been found to have matching bone marrow which he’ll be donating to try to save his brother’s life.
The control room inside Studio A at the Motown Museum on West Grand Blvd in Detroit, MI, Monday, March 4, 2013.
Ice lines the banks of Belle Isle Park as light breaks through the clouds over the Detroit River, Thursday, Mach 7, 2013.
The Detroit Red Wings host the St. Louis Blues at Joe Louis Arena, February 1, 2013.
Maddox Wilson, 2, is all smiles while on the swing at Willistead Park on a warm record-breaking January afternoon, Saturday, January 12, 2013.
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A butcher demonstration dinner was held at Rino’s Kitchen and Ale House Wednesday evening with Rino Bortolin, owner and chef, serving a four-course meal to sixteen guests while Jamie Waldron, executive butcher at Landmark Group, demonstrated how to properly carve a Berkshire pig into its four primal cuts – the shoulder, leg (ham), belly, and loin.
Bortolin hosts the event to educate people on where their food is coming from, as well as to showcase locally raised meat from Essex County, which he says is as good a product as anywhere. Bortolin purchases his pork from Harold Wagner, of Wagner Orchards and Estate Winery, who was also on hand to discuss the benefits of his naturally raised pigs compared to those raised in a factory farm.
Rino’s Kitchen and Ale House, Windsor Ont., February 27, 2013
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The Hon. Eugene Francis Whelan, 1924-2013.
St. John the Baptist Church, Amherstburg, ON, Saturday, February 23, 2013.
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