Posts by Craig Bradford
Spitfires still undefeated to start season
Aylmer Jr. C Spitfires hockey player Kyle Dama broke a North Middlesex Stars player’s stick while trying to pass the puck by him during their game at East Elgin Community Complex on Saturday night, Oct. 17. Seen in the background is Duma’s teammate Josh Reda. Aylmer tripled North Middlesex 9-3 to extend their season-starting winning streak…
Read MoreJuno nominee plays in front of a packed Aylmer crowd
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…
Read MoreScouting showing appreciation
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…
Read MoreFather and child killed in crash northeast of St. Thomas
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.…
Read MoreAylmer Library decision: lease now, build later
“Did you not get the memo that you lost the last election?” asked Councillor Ted McDonald of former mayor Jack Couckuyt at the Monday, Oct. 5 council meeting. Cr. McDonald tore into Mr. Counckuyt after his presentation to council in support of building a new downtown library. While mayor, Mr. Couckuyt failed to get enough…
Read MoreLearning about the forest
Assumption Catholic Elementary School Grade 7 pupils got ready to make like Monarch butterflies at the Monarch Migration Madness station during the Carolinian Forest Festival at Springwater Conservation Area on Tuesday, Oct. 6. Over 500 London District Catholic School Board Grade 6 and 7 pupils visited Springwater on that day and the next for the annual…
Read MoreFairgrounds a ghoulish haunt until Halloween
A masked maniac with a crowbar and the “surgeon murder clown” are two of the scary characters awaiting those who brave the Aylmer Fair Haunted House in the old curling club building at the Aylmer Fairgrounds. The Haunted House continues each Friday and Saturday night from 7-9 p.m. during October including on Halloween night (Saturday,…
Read MoreGetting some country air
Henry Redecop went airborne on his dirt bike over the crest of a hill during the second annual “Mexican 500” motocross event held southwest of Straffordville on Saturday, Oct. 3. The dirt bike racing event included two “motos” or heats with more than 20 riders each who drove over a long cross country course that…
Read MoreCare 2 Cycle benefits near and far
Rylee Peters, 7, navigated the “Rabbit Rodeo” course on her bicycle in the Immanuel Christian School parking lot on Saturday morning, Oct. 3 before groups of other cyclists took off for the Care 2 Cycle rides from the Aylmer school. The event, which involved 10-kilometre, 30 km and 50 km cycling rides, raised money for…
Read MoreWet sponges fly at McGregor PS to celebrate love of reading
McGregor Public School Principal Charlotte Wall, right, got ready to take a swing at a wet sponge thrown by pupil Ryan Penner, left, with Aylmer Old Town Hall Library assistant Mary Wiebe looking on Thursday, Oct. 1 during a celebration of the pupils at the Aylmer school helping to surpass the library’s Summer Reading Club…
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