Posts by Rob Perry
Tighter COVID restrictions on indoor sports
Southwestern Public Health on Wednesday, Oct. 6, issued letters of instruction requiring COVID-19 “passports” showing proof of vaccination will be needed for anyone 12 or older for admission to all indoor public and private sports facilities as of Oct. 31 . Previously, anyone 12 through 17 had been exempt from having to produce passports at indoor sports facilities.…
Read MoreSpectators okay at outdoor EESS sports
Spectators will be allowed to attend outdoor sports events involving East Elgin Secondary School as the fall season unfolds, Athletics Director Matt Ninness says. East Elgin would have teams for field hockey, junior football, golf, junior and senior girls basketball, senior boys volleyball and cross-country, he continued. Not enough players could be found for junior…
Read MoreAylmer man, 75, dies of COVID-19
Southwestern Public Health reported the death of an Aylmer man, 75, related to COVID-19 on Tuesday morning, Oct. 5. He is the 87th resident of Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford area to die so far in the pandemic. The region has seen a surge of confirmed cases in the last week. The number of ongoing…
Read MoreAylmer Under-11 Rep team wins exhibition match
Ben Deleebeeck of host Aylmer Minor Hockey’s Under 11 Rep team stickhandled the puck down the ice during an exhibition game against St. Thomas at East Elgin Community Complex on Friday night, Oct. 1. Aylmer took the win. (AE/Rob Perry)
Read MoreAylmer and area now at 22 cases
The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Aylmer and area increased to 22 on Monday, Oct. 4, from 10 on Friday, Oct. 1. That’s the biggest increase of any municipality in the Southwestern Public Health region of Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford. The health unit on Monday was tracking 71 ongoing COVID-19 cases, up…
Read MoreSome Westminster Central pupils to be shifted to South Dorchester Public School
Middlesex Trustee Sean Hunt warned, “We must not make these mistakes again,” after Thames Valley District School Board on Tuesday, Sept. 28, approved sending some pupils from Westminster Central Public School, which will be closed as of September of 2022, to South Dorchester Public School. The original plan had been to close both Westminster Central…
Read MoreConfirmed outbreak at Elgin Manor
Elgin Manor long-term care home, with the confirmation of two more cases of COVID-19, in addition to one discovered Friday, is now in a “confirmed outbreak,” Elgin County announced Sunday afternoon, Oct. 3. The first case on Friday involved a resident. The Sunday cases involve another resident and one staff member. All other residents and…
Read More“Suspected” outbreak at Elgin Manor
Elgin County announced on Friday afternoon, Oct. 1, that a single case of COVID-19 had been confirmed involving a resident at Elgin Manor long-term care home in Southwold that morning. The resident had been moved into isolation, and so far no other residents or staff had tested positive, the county continued. With one positive case,…
Read MoreNow 10 cases in Aylmer and area
The number of ongoing confirmed COVID-19 cases in Aylmer and area increased to 10 Friday, Oct. 1, from six on Wednesday, Sept. 29, Southwestern Public Health reported on Friday, Oct. 1. (The health unit took Thursday off for National Truth and Reconciliation Day.) Across the Southwestern region of Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford, 21 new…
Read MoreMotorist, infant seriously hurt in SUV-grain truck collision
The driver of a sports utility vehicle and an infant passenger were taken by ambulance to hospital to be treated for what Ontario Provincial Police described as serious, life-threatening injuries after a crash also involving a grain truck on Lyons Line between Imperial Road and Dorchester Road on Thursday, Sept. 30, at about 6:40 p.m.…
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