Posts by Craig Bradford

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…

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…

The Grade 7 pupils of teacher Kate Gutmanis’s class at Davenport Public School in Aylmer bit into apples from Great Lakes Farms of Port Stanley on Thursday morning, Oct. 19 as part of The Great Big Crunch event to celebrate Breakfast for Learning Month. Locally, Eat 2 Learn, otherwise known as the Elgin School Nutrition…

Aylmer Baptist Church music director Neil Whyte, left, had Devin Hilliker turn the pages for him while he played a “Keyboard Fantasia” concert in front of more than 50 music lovers on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 15. Mr. Whyte’s piano performance featured a selection of songs by composers Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferruccio Busoni, Enrique Granados, Frederic…

Volunteer firefighters in full gear from all for Central Elgin halls received day-long flashover training at the Yarmouth Centre Fire Station located just east of St. Thomas on Saturday, Oct. 14. The training continued all day on Sunday as well. The firefighters were trained using a Drager flashover simulator. “Flashovers occur when high temperatures in…

On Friday morning, Oct. 13, Teichroeb Exteriors Inc. worker Henry Knelsen, front, steadied the end of a 500 foot long one-piece section of eavestrough that was about to be installed on a chicken barn at Walker Poultry Inc. just south of Richmond on Richmond Road. The property is also known as the Richmond Ranch. While…

Aylmer volunteer firefighter  Mike Holmes, left, encouraged his son Cale, 6, to read a pamphlet with information on smoke alarms while his other son Colin, 9, looked on during the annual Fire Prevention Open House held at the Aylmer Fire Department on Thursday evening, Oct. 12. Fire Prevention Week was observed from Oct. 8-14. Aylmer…

Thankfully, most Thanksgiving celebrations – at least the cooking and dining parts – weren’t affected by a power outage in the Aylmer area that started at about 10 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 9 and lasted at least two hours. Aylmer Hydro One Lines Manager Paul Falk said equipment failed at the New Sarum regulation station…