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New Sarum PS gets stacking
Ava Fish, left, Sandra Grant and Tariq Oteng were among a whole gymnasium full of New Sarum Public School pupils participating in the annual attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the largest sport stacking event on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 9. The New Sarum PS pupils stacked their cups to music in various different patterned…
Read MoreElgin, Oxford health units to merge
Oxford County council announced Friday morning, Nov. 10, that its health unit will merge with Elgin St. Thomas Public Health. The merger was endorsed by the two county boards of health at meetings earlier this week, and is to be completed by the spring of 2018. Current offices in St. Thomas and Woodstock would be…
Read MoreValentines for Vets at the library
Cousins Ava Hiebert, 3, left, and Kaylee Enns, 5, made valentines after the last Children’s Choice Story Time of the fall season at Aylmer Old Town Hall Library on Thursday morning, Nov. 9 as part of the Valentines for Vets Campaign. Several children participated in the craft session when they made valentines for veterans living…
Read MoreEESS in football playoffs
East Elgin Secondary School’s Junior football team, first in Thames Valley Regional Central’s Walzak conference regular season with a perfect 6-0 record, will take on London South Collegiate Institute, second in the Darnell conference with a 4-1 record, in a Central divisional semifinal at City Wide Sports Park in London on Thursday, Nov. 9, starting…
Read MoreRemembrance Day services begin
Deputy Mayor Sally Martyn, left, and Mayor David Marr, with help from an Air Cadet, laid a wreath on behalf of Central Elgin at this area’s first Remembrance Day service, held at the Last Post Branch 410, Royal Canadian Legion, in Port Stanley on Sunday morning, Nov. 5. The service was held indoors due to…
Read MoreGentle “monsters” dashing through Aylmer
Left photo: Lucas Verbruggen, 10, dressed in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costume, ran up and over a stack of bales during the kids obstacle dash component of the third annual Monster Dash Fun Run held at Kinsmen Park in Aylmer on Saturday morning, Oct. 28. Right photo: May Klassen, 6, dressed as a ladybug…
Read MoreWelcome…to Screamfield!
Willy Wonka (played by Kellen DeVos), left, invited a visitor in to see his caged Loompa (Nic Berger) during the fourth annual Screamfield haunted maze built outside (as seen here), and inside, of Malahide Community Place in Springfield on Friday night, Oct. 27. Several volunteers played all sorts of creepy crawly characters in several elaborate…
Read MoreCelebrating Vienna Park improvements
Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP Jeff Yurek, left, presented Bayham Councillor Ed Ketchabaw with a plaque from the Ontario Trillium Foundation at Vienna Memorial Park on Friday morning, Oct. 27 to recognize the $10,000 grant the municipality received that helped pay for improvements in the park. The grant came from the Ontario 150 Community Capital Program that was…
Read MoreStirring the Coffee House
Maryann Enns, left, and music department head Trevor Hiepleh, right, backed Zach Taylor as he played 1966 jazz standard”Footprints” during a Coffee House at East Elgin Secondary School on Thursday night, Oct. 26. Four such talent fundraisers will be held this year to benefit the school’s Performing Arts Council.
Read MoreFire damages Walnut Street apartment
Late on Tuesday afternoon, October 24, an Aylmer volunteer firefighter started an industrial fan to help clear the smoke from an apartment fire on Walnut Street. Aylmer’s three fire trucks left the fire hall shortly before 5:30 p.m. that day. The apartment that had caught on fire was the west most front unit at the…
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