Posts by Rob Perry
Everything perfect for Truck and Tractor Pull
This year’s Aylmer Fair Canada Day Truck and Tractor Pull met all the marks for a great show, Fair President Randy Laur said Monday, June 29. He couldn’t have asked for any better weather, he said. “Just perfect. It was great.” The competition itself was “awesome. It went really good.” The event attracted the most…
Read MoreHistoric lighthouse to be sold
Port Burwell’s 1840 wooden lighthouse was declared surplus by Bayham council members on Thursday, June 25, and negotiations will be held with the Port Burwell Historical Society on its disposition. The same night the society held an open house in the Port Burwell Legion to rally support for taking over the lighthouse. The discussion there…
Read MoreKinsmen flag raised at Aylmer town hall
Councillor Jamie Chapman, left, Aylmer Kinsmen President Jack Gaudette, Kin Len Adams, Mayor Jack Couckuyt, Kin Vice-President Elect Tanner Bates, President Elect Harrison Bates, Cr. Kathryn Desrosiers and Kin Deputy Governor LMPP Andy Beck raised a Kinsmen flag in front of town hall recently. Mayor Couckuyt also proclaimed June 22 to July 2 as “Kin…
Read MoreLynden Door plans Aylmer plant
Lynden Door of Washington State and British Columbia had purchased 20 acres of land in Aylmer’s AIM Park and plans a manufacturing plant there creating 60 to 100 new jobs for this area. The company already has an Alliance Door Canada Products distribution centre in St. Thomas. John Ridder, president of Alliance Door Products Canada,…
Read MoreWendy MacMillan named Senior of the Year for Elgin
Elgin County Warden Dominique Giguère, left, in a surprise move presented an Ontario Senior Citizen of the Year Award to Wendy MacMillan of Port Stanley during a council meeting on Tuesday, June 9. Ms. MacMillan is the co-chairman of the Elgin St. Thomas Age Friendly Committee and was saluted for her work in recent years…
Read MoreFlack: home ownership should be affordable
Ontario Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Rob Flack, who’s also MPP for Elgin-Middlesex and London, second for right, toured all the Home Hardware stores and building centres in his riding Monday, June 15, ending up at Geerlinks in St. Thomas, where he spoke about the provincial government’s efforts to spur on housing growth. He was…
Read MoreEESS Relay for Life raises $47,500
Kaidy Shackelton, left, Adelyn Pusching and Megan Campbell were among the 280 participants in the annual Relay for Life fundraiser at East Elgin Secondary School Friday, June 5. They were taking part in a “bubble lap.” For more pictures and a story, see the June 17 edition of The Aylmer Express. (AE/Rob Perry)
Read MoreAylmer man charged with manslaughter
An Aylmer man, 46, has been charged with manslaughter in connenction with the death of a woman, 28. St. Thomas Police reported Tuesday afternoon, June 9, that emergency services had responded to an address in downtown St. Thomas on May 30 after a woman was found to be unresponsive. She was taken to hospital, where…
Read MoreCome From Away draws sold-out crowds at St. Joe’s
Grade 12 student Lucas Wall, left, acting as Gander, N.L., Mayor Claude Elliott, watched as “Come From Away” cast members acted as if they were taking shots of screech (rum) at St. Joseph’s Catholic High School on Friday, June 5. During this portion of the musical, unplanned international visitors to the province take part in…
Read MoreMaureen Wellwood promoted brigadier general
Family and friends trekked to Ottawa to see Maureen Wellwood, front and centre, daughter of Mike and Mary-Anne Wellwood of Aylmer promoted to brigadier-general in the Canadian Armed Forces on June 2. Her supporters included, front, from left: cousins Kate Wellwood and Major Emily Warnock, Brigadier-General Wellwood, aunt Barbara Warnock, mother Mary-Anne Wellwood, friend Shereen…
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