Fireworks exploded in the sky over the Aylmer Fair on opening night, Thursday, Aug. 11. The fair splurged on a spectacular 20-minutes pyrotechnic display to celebrate its 170th birthday. The annual agricultural exhibition continues through Sunday.
Despite torrid weather the afternoon of Thursday, Aug. 11, brave youngsters still came out for their first rides on the Aylmer Fair Midway. Admission Thursday is by donation, and the opening day will be topped off with fireworks at dusk.
Jan Everett of London, right, read a children’s book she wrote and illustrated about her husband John’s efforts to save turtles along the Long Point Causeway between Long Point Bay and Turtle Creek Marsh to Summer Reading Club members at the Fred Bodsworth Library in Port Burwell during their final summer session, Tuesday afternoon, Aug.…
Tall ship The Pathfinder was seen coming into shore on the late morning of Saturday, Aug. 6 during Port Stanley Harbourfest. The Pathfinder is a brigantine which was designed and built as a sail training vessel for Toronto Brigantine Inc. by Francis A. McLachlan in Kingston and launched in 1963. Those attending Harbourfest could pay…
The passenger of a pickup truck, Jerimiah Hakeem Krahn, 20, of Aylmer was pronounced dead at the scene of a three-vehicle crash that occurred on Highbury Avenue south of Ferguson Line northeast of St. Thomas in the late morning of Friday, Aug. 5. The driver of the silver Dodge pickup, David Guenther, 47, of Bayham,…
Lexi Wolf, 4 (and a half), enjoyed a frozen treat to celebrate the conclusion of the Aylmer Old Town Hall Library’s Summer Reading Club on Thursday afternoon, Aug.4. Earlier that afternoon, a representative with Little Ray’s Reptile Zoo presented its Endangered Ontario show in the second floor Old Town Hall Theatre.
A helicopter sprayed fungicide on a corn field growing within Aylmer on Tuesday evening, Aug. 2. This photo was taken at about 7:30 p.m. while the helicopter pilot applied the fungicide on the corn stand located south of Elk Street and east of Brown Street. Some families that live in the neighbourhood heard the commotion…
The “Miller Time” team of, from front, Aaron Klenot, Mike Miller, Dan Miller and Amy Lee pulled the Port Burwell Fire Department’s antique Bickle truck across an East Beach parking lot and up a slope in one of the traditional competitions of Port Burwell’s Beachfest, Saturday afternoon, July 31. Events continue Saturday and through Sunday,…
Magnus McClintock-Clutz, 8, showed off crimson hands after he and fellow participants in Springfield library’s weekly Summer Reading Club get-together tie-dyed white T-shirts, Thursday, June 28. The dyes weren’t harmful, but could stain hands if they got on skin, so the youngsters wore gloves. A few accidental exposures were quickly put right with soap and water,…
Elgin County Director of Seniors Services and Terrace Lodge Administrator Rhonda Duffy, left, introduced Terrace Lodge resident Marjorie Crawford who spoke on behalf of all of the other residents at the Aylmer area long-term care home after John Fraser, MPP Ottawa South and Parliamentary Assistant to Health and Long-Term Care Minister Eric Hoskins, announced Ontario government…
The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) is seeking the public’s help to identify the individual or individuals selling “angler-caught fish” in the Aylmer area. Kevin Sprague, a conservation officer with MNRF’s Southern Marine Enforcement Unit, confirmed that the fish in question was “mostly yellow perch.” He said a search warrant was executed…
Samantha Wiebe, 6, left, helped her sister Stephanie, 2, navigate towards their mother Tina (not pictured) during a free public swimming session at the Aylmer outdoor pool complex on Saturday afternoon, July 23. Several Aylmer area residents took advantage of the free swimming to help cool off during the sweltering heat and humidity that day.