Grade 2 pupil Lilla Horvath-Wall, right, tried to jump rope without spilling any of the water contained in a small glass she was holding during the Zoo Olympics at Straffordville Public School on Monday, June 22. Taking a turn turning the rope behind Ms. Horvath was Angela Weiler. The Zoo Olympics are held at Straffordville…
The George Barnes Memorial Wheelhouse arrived in Port Burwell mid-afternoon on Wednesday, June 17 after a six hour journey from Port Maitland where it had been used as an office for George Barnes and Sons, an excavating company. The two-storey structure will be restored over the next several months in an area next to Otter…
Theresa “Tress” Caverly (nee Johnston) died at her Aylmer area home at age 100 on Tuesday, June 9 after what one of her best friends said was a “full life” for a “very unique lady.” Her daughter Brenda Smith, who now runs the Pinecroft Green Frog Tea Room that her mother established, delivered the eulogy…
Braxton Dohnt, 7, wrangled with a large specimen that was waiting in a reservoir to be weighed during the 26th annual Aylmer Optimist Club Catfish Derby in Port Bruce on Sunday morning, June 14. Braxton, who participated in his third consecutive derby in Port Bruce that day, lives in Brantford and was visiting his grandparents…
Elgin councillors want to meet with Ontario Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins to reinforce that the county expects Terrace Lodge long-term care home, when it is rebuilt, to still house 100 beds. Homes and Seniors Services Director Rhonda Duffy, at a council meeting Tuesday, June 9, pointed out that the Ontario government now favoured 32-bed…
Port Stanley residents hoping for a revival of leisurely strolls on the west breakwater in their harbour this summer will have to wait until at least this September. Central Elgin councillors on Monday, June 8, voted unanimously to proceed this year with additional work on the breakwater, rather than waiting for two or three more…
Bayham Deputy Mayor Tom Southwick, left, and Malahide Mayor David Mennill, right, used a cross-cut saw on a log during a competition at the annual Edison Fest in Vienna, Saturday, June 6. Several Elgin County councillors turned out to participate in a celebrity contest won by Bayham Councillor Wayne Casier and Southwold Mayor Grant Jones…
Malahide Mayor Dave Mennill, left, received a whipped cream “pie” in the face by Councillor Mark Widner at the end of Camp Day at the west end Tim Hortons on the outskirts of Aylmer on Wednesday afternoon, June 3. Also getting “pie-d” that day to raise money for the Tim Hortons Children’s Foundation were Malahide…
Royal Canadian Air Force Major-General Richard Rohmer, right, was greeted by Community Safety and Correctional Services Assistant Deputy Minister Denise Dwyer, left, and Ontario Police College Director Bruce Herridge at the Police College located northeast of Aylmer on Wednesday morning, June 3 when he arrived to attend the dedication of the facility’s library to him.…
Aylmer councillors at their Monday, June 1 meeting sent the draft 2015 East Elgin Community Complex budget back to the facility’s Ad Hoc Committee to find a further $40,000 to $50,000 in savings. That was despite that committee, whose only voting members are the mayors of Aylmer and Malahide, just last week voting to send…
A crew working for Bogus Road farmer Bill Rimnyak was on one of his fields south of Calton Line and north of Vienna planting tobacco on Friday morning, May 29. Mr. Rimnyak hoped to get all of his 50 acres of tobacco planted by the end of that afternoon before the weather turned wet and…
Cottager Sue Wiltsie, front, was among over 25 local residents who participated in a clean-up of the Port Bruce beach on Friday, May 29. The clean-up was to last several hours that day and included Ontario Parks employees who were on hand to identify patches of poison ivy and mark them with small flags for…