Sporting life of Forest area celebrated in mural series at arena

A mural project in Forest, celebrated Friday at the Shores Recreation Centre, was born over a meal in the days after the pandemic shutdown.

Catherine Minielly, with Lambton Shores Communities in Bloom, said she was out for dinner with a neighbour who happens to be administrator of the Forest Business Improvement Association and they got talking about funding governments were offering to help communities open up again after restrictions eased.

“She said, ‘You know, I’d really like to do murals,’” Minielly said. “I said, ‘But I want to do murals.’”

It went from there and Communities in Bloom partnered with a community group, the Forest Collective, to commission several murals in the Lambton Shores’ community’s downtown with the theme Then and Now, followed by winter sports murals hanging