Posts by Rob Perry
Integrity commissioner admonishes Central Elgin council
Central Elgin addressed municipal code of conduct complaints against councillors Morgaine Griffin and Michelle Graham on Oct. 6, amidst integrity commissioner (IC) admonitions that “enmity” between members of council seems to have sparked a total of 13 code complaints in the past six months at a cost to taxpayers of about $16,300. A report on…
Read MoreAylmer council votes 5-1 for library expansion
Warning: this story contains strong language “The time has come to make a decision,” Mayor Jack Couckuyt told fellow Aylmer council members at a special meeting at Old Town Hall, about that building’s future, on Wednesday, Oct. 15. They voted 5-1 in favour of an option to expand the Old Town Hall library and upstairs…
Read MoreJuniors pummel HPSS 40-12
Madison Wiebe of host East Elgin Secondary School’s Junior basketball team lobbed the ball toward the Woodstock Huron Park Secondary School hoop during a game on Thursday, Oct. 16. EESS came out on top, 40-12. (AE/Rob Perry)
Read MoreEESS Seniors down Huron Park 30-10
Bridget Woolley of host East Elgin Secondary School’s Senior girls basketball team charged toward the Woodstock Huron Park hoop during a game on Thursday, Oct. 16. EESS dominated plan and came away with a 30-10 victory. (AE/Rob Perry)
Read MoreSteve Peter steps back after 37 years in politics
Steve Peters resigned his seat as a member of St. Thomas council on Oct. 15, with hopes of creating more time for family, and his passion for local history, while also focusing on his year-old role as chair of the Leamington-based Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers (OGVG) board of directors. “I’m 62 years old, I was…
Read MoreAnnual museum car show at Saxonia Hall
Ruth Ford, left, and John Hutton brought this 1951 MG TD sports car, in British Racing Green, to a Classic Car Show to benefit Aylmer-Malahide Museum and Archives at Saxonia Hall, just west of Aylmer, on Saturday, Oct. 4. Mr. Hutton said he’d always been interested in British sports cars and, earlier this year, bought…
Read MoreComplex board votes 8-5 to seek library renovation cost
East Elgin Community Complex board, at a meeting Wednesday, Oct. 8, voted 8-5 to get a detailed cost estimate, costing up to $10,000, on renovating Imperial Hall into a new space for the Aylmer library. Malahide Mayor Dominique Giguère, Deputy Mayor Mark Widner and councillors Sarah Leitch, Johnny Wilson, Rick Cerna, Scott Lewis joined town…
Read MoreAylmer library options: costs $6-million and up
Aylmer council, meeting at Old Town Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 15, will discuss the cost of three options for potentially enlarging the downtown branch of the Elgin County library or building a new one, with costs ranging from $6.2-million to $8.9-million. The costliest option, according to JPM Architecture, would be $8.9-million to put an addition…
Read MoreTerry Fox Run at Summers Corners
Summers Corners Public School had 421 participants who raised almost $2,000 in total in a Terry Fox Run on Friday afternoon, Sept. 26, including Alex Fehr, Gr. 7, left, Joey Scott, Gr. 8, Caiden Werkema, Gr. 8, and Landon Connor, Gr. 8, who took part as a group. (AE/Rob Perry)
Read MoreNew doctors, nurses welcomed to area
Nine new family doctors and two nurse practitioners were welcomed to the community on Oct. 2 as the St. Thomas-Elgin Health Recruitment Partnership, in conjunction with St. Thomas and District Chamber of Commerce and Doug Tarry Homes (DTH), hosted a “meet-and-greet” in Central Elgin. The health care workers were treated to soft drinks, finger foods…
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