Posts by Craig Bradford

Ryker Graham, 5, left, and his brother Preston, 9, right, were joined by their cousin Madison, 3, for the TD Summer Reading Club’s Wacky Wigs activity at Aylmer Old Town Hall Theatre on Thursday afternoon, July 21. The Aylmer Library staff had the craft session moved upstairs where there was more room for the several children…

Aron Wall, front, was among several youngsters who participated in a timed game that had them compete in teams to pick up the most balls and sponges and put them in a bucket during the Bethel United Reformed Church Vacation Bible School on Thursday morning, July 21. The theme of the week-long Vacation Bible School…

Aylmer’s Sophie Stirling, 8, left, blew on the rock she was painting which brought smiles to the faces of camp counsellor Lauren Jewell and events and programs assistant Lindsay Ward while Nolan Shackelton, 6, of Springfield continued to paint his own rock during the East Elgin Community Complex Summer Day Camp on Thursday morning, July…

While an Ontario Provincial Police analyst called the new process “streamlined,” Aylmer’s request to get a quote for OPP service to potentially replace the town’s own municipal police force could take more than a year. Sergeant Kevin Hummel, a “Deployed Contract Analyst” with the OPP’s Municipal Policing Bureau, led a presentation on the OPP costing…

Ontario Provincial Police officers and Central Elgin firefighters recovered the body of William Johnston, 18, of London in the water off of Port Stanley at about 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 17. The teen was swimming with a 19-year-old woman on Thursday afternoon, July 14 when both experienced trouble in the choppy waves. Emergency personnel…

Marilyn Powers, 10, of Springfield checked out a 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle owned by Don and Nancy Steenbergen of Aylmer during the Aylmer Shrine Cruise Night at the ICS Courier parking lot near the corner of Talbot Street West and Wellington Street on Wednesday evening, July 13. The truck in behind Marilyn was a 1956 Ford…

Dayne Walcarius, 12, applied wood filler to a wooden tool box he was making during Tech Camp at East Elgin Secondary School in Aylmer on Wednesday morning, July 13. The week-long Tech Camp introduced children in Grades 6 and 7 to skilled trades including manufacturing, woodworking and green industries. About 40 children participated in the…

After a lengthy investigation, Independent Police Review Director Gerry McNeilly has come to the conclusion that an Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police investigation of an October 2013 sex attack on a Bayham woman that used DNA canvassing of almost 100 migrant workers “was not motivated by racial prejudice.” Mr. McNeilly’s decision was contained in an…

Brandyn Chilton of St. Thomas, front, was all smiles while being helped along the path by Malahide Mayor Dave Mennill with Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP Jeff Yurek and MP Karen Vecchio trailing behind after they participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the installation of 250 feet of barrier-free access mats on the beach at Port Bruce…