This handsome fellow was just one of the creepy denizens of the “Screamfield” Haunted Walk outside Malahide Community Place in Springfield on Tuesday evening, Oct. 27. Presented by Out There Creative Therapy, Screamfield continues on Thursday, Oct. 29 and Friday, Oct. 30 from 7-10 p.m. Admission to the pre-Halloween attraction is “$5 a head” with…
Derrick Drover of Aylmer, middle front, acknowledged the nearly full house at St. Paul’s United Church as he, along with a band and choir, celebrated the release of his fourth album of Christian music on Friday night, Oct. 23. This one is titled, “Hymns of Those Who’ve Gone Before.”
A group of about 30 local residents, cottagers, Ontario Parks staff and East Elgin Secondary School Environmental Leadership Program students participated in a beach restoration project at Port Bruce Provincial Park on Thursday, Oct. 22. The group spent about four hours planting native grasses and installing barrier fencing while removing invasive plant species and garbage.
Edie Vindasius, left, waits her turn to try some soup while Marianne Fehr ladles out a bowl for herself at the ASPIRE (Arbeit Schule Program in Rural Elgin) open house and soup and bun night at East Elgin Secondary School in Aylmer on Tuesday evening, Oct. 20. Community volunteers made several varieties of soup that…
A two-vehicle crash occurred on Talbot Street East just east of Elk Street on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 20 near the Aylmer/Malahide border. It appeared that the front end of a beige Pontiac Sunfire collided with the back bumper of a black Ford F150 pickup truck at about 3:15 p.m. Although no official details were available…
Conservative candidate Karen Vecchio, middle, was greeted by her former employer and retiring Elgin-Middlesex-London MP Joe Preston, left, and her campaign manager Brian Clements as she arrived at her victory party at Boston Pizza in St. Thomas at about 10:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 19 after she was declared the winner of the federal election for…
Central Elgin councillors, at a special meeting on Friday morning, Oct. 16, gave the green light to a proposed small-scale wind-power project for the south end of the municipality. Andreas Schneider says his proposed Fairview Community Wind Park involving 17 landowners would be a financial boon to them and keep out “big wind” corporations such…
Juno Award nominee and United Kingdom Songwriting Contest winner Alysha Brilla and her band played to a sold-out audience at Aylmer Old Town Hall Theatre on Saturday night, Oct. 17 in the latest Aylmer Performing Arts Council show. The critically-acclaimed Tanzanian-Canadian singer, songwriter and producer also plays guitar, piano and djembe (a West African hand…
Beaver Ryder Jensen, 7, front left, and Cub Chris Westley, 8, greeted Ingersoll’s John Verhoeven as he entered the Aylmer No Frills grocery store on Saturday morning, Oct. 17, by asking him if he wanted an apple in exchange for a small donation. Beavers, Cubs and Scouts were at various locations in Aylmer on Friday…
A public meeting on overcrowding at Pierre Elliot Trudeau School in St. Thomas, and how that might affect Port Stanley Public School starting in September of 2016, will be held at the Port Stanley PS library on Thursdsay night, Oct. 15, starting at 6:30 p.m. Mayor David Marr told a Central Elgin council meeting Tuesday,…
Central Elgin councillors will hold a special meeting this Friday morning, Oct. 16, at 9 a.m. to consider a small-scale windpower project proposed by Andreas Schneider. He told councillors Tuesday night, Oct. 13, that the project would return more revenue to landowners than a large-scale development, use smaller windmills and effectively “lock out” big corporations…
A four-month-old boy and later his father have died as a result of a two-vehicle crash northeast of St. Thomas on Wednesday night, Oct. 7. The driver of the other vehicle involved in the crash, a 68-year-old Malahide man, has been charged with several dangerous driving and criminal negligence causing death and bodily harm-related offences.…