About 50 Belmont and area Scotiabank customers, mainly older adults, made clear they were unhappy about the planned closing of their branch during a public meeting at Belmont Arena on Thursday night, June 2. Several said they were long-term bank customers, sometimes for generations in their family, and they didn’t want the branch to close.…
East Elgin Secondary School student Tori Kuhn performed an intricate acrobatic dance number to the song Fallen by Alicia Keys while mostly up off of the stage using an aerial hoop during the dress rehearsal for the school’s annual Talent Show on Wednesday afternoon, June 1. The Talent Show was to perform to audiences on…
Aylmer west end Tim Hortons supervisor Lexy Rados, seated in middle, had the hair on the sides of her head cut off and the rest turned into a long Mohawk by InStyle Salon and Spa hairstylist Jennifer Gwalchmai, right, during Camp Day on Wednesday afternoon, June 1. Ms. Rados raised $1,510.35 for the Tim Hortons…
An adult and five children managed to escape from their South Street West home in Aylmer after a fire started in their kitchen early on Wednesday morning, June 1. Aylmer Fire Chief Sam Taylor said volunteer firefighters, police officers and emergency medical services responded to the fire at the home located on the north side…
Several Aylmer Police and OPP cruisers responded to a report of a lost child at Clovermead Adventure Farm north of Aylmer on Tuesday afternoon, May 31. Clovermead co-owner Chris Hiemstra said a mother had lost her child briefly and called police before informing staff at the property. “She was panicking,” Mr. Hiemstra said. When Clovermead…
Volunteer Bill Ball manned one of the fryers during the Order of Good Cheer annual perch fish fry at Saxonia Hall just west of Aylmer on Saturday evening, May 28. All proceeds from the event were to help support East Elgin Secondary School’s Environmental Leadership Program. Over 500 tickets were sold for the fish fry…
Malcolm Travis, 2, played with a toy dump truck on the sandy beach at Springwater Conservation Area located southwest of Aylmer on Saturday late afternoon, May 28 while his nearby mother Sara and older sister Quinn, 5, (not seen) tried out the water during Aylmer Baptist Church’s Spring Fling get-together. Those that attended enjoyed dinner…
Periscope Playhouse assistant producer and grant facilitator Leslie Chilcott took a much deserved break in one of the newly installed stadium-style seats at the community theatre’s new venue in Port Burwell on Saturday, May 28. Ms. Chilcott was one of several volunteers who were continuing the renovations on the former Scouting hall at 42 Wellington…
Jason Guenter, 13, left, and his sister Nancy, 11, tried out the paddle boats in a large portable swallow pool of water supplied by Super Air Bounce Rentals of Tillsonburg at the Educational Animal Display and Pony Rides annual open house southeast of Aylmer on Saturday, May 28. Educational Animal Display and Pony Rides, located…
Three men in their early 20s were injured, one suffering “life-altering” injuries, as a result of a single-vehicle rollover crash east of Belmont early Thursday, May 26. Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Adam Crewdson said officers from both the Elgin OPP and Middlesex OPP responded to the crash on Dorchester Road near Avon Road…
The Municipality of Bayham recently received a judgement against the Elgin Military Museum for $6-million relating to the default of bank loans the museum received to pay for the transport of the HMCS Ojibwa submarine from Halifax to Port Burwell. “A Writ of Seizure and Sale, against the Elgin Military Museum, has been registered in…
Central Elgin Mayor David Marr has promised to appear at a public hearing at Belmont Arena, Thursday, June 2, at 7 p.m., to oppose the proposed closing of the village’s only bank. Scotiabank has announced that it will close its Belmont branch on Jan. 22, 2017, merging it with its St. Thomas bank 20 kilometres…