Posts by Rob Perry
St. Thomas mass clinic to close
Southwestern Ontario Public Health announced Friday, Aug. 20, that as of Friday, Sept. 10, its mass-vaccination clinic at Memorial Arena in St. Thomas will close its doors. COVID-19 vaccinations will move to the health unit’s St. Thomas headquarters at 1230 Talbot Street, at the eastern edge of the city, and continue on a scaled-down basis.…
Read MoreHighway 3 bypass revoked
Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP Jeff Yurek announced on Wednesday, Aug. 11, that a proposed Highway 3 bypass route through the north end of Aylmer has been official revoked. Malahide and Central Elgin will also be affected, with land potentially freed for development that had been frozen by the bypass route since 1970. The removal of the route…
Read MoreDate changed for pop-up clinic at Clovermead
Southwestern Public Health is continuing to schedule smaller, “pop-up” COVID-19 vaccination clinics in an attempt to reach residents in more rural areas of Elgin and Oxford. In Elgin, one will be held at Clovermead Adventure Farm, in Malahide just north of Aylmer, on Tuesday, August 17, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (In an earlier…
Read MoreAylmer Spitfires on verge of folding
Aylmer Spitfires Junior C hockey club will come to an end within the next two weeks if new volunteers don’t come forward to help run it, the team has warned. The team for players 16 through 21 years old was formed 18 years ago. Yvonne Gavey, in an announcement on behalf of the team said,…
Read More“Jitney” tournament at Aylmer Lawn Bowling Club
Roberta Wilson bowled during an informal, “luck of the draw” jitney tournament held at the Aylmer Lawn Bowling Club on Thursday night, Aug. 5. Twenty bowlers participated, divided into “skips” and “vices.” Unusually, partners were switched between the first and second games of the event. (AE/Rob Perry)
Read MoreAylmer Mosquitoes down Ingersoll 11-2
Zander Friesen banged out a hit for the McTaggart Armstrong Mosquito Rep team of Aylmer Minor Baseball during a home game at Steen Park against Ingersoll on Thursday night, Aug. 5. The Aylmer squad won the game handily, 11-2. (AE/Rob Perry)
Read MoreCOVID-19 cases on the rise
Southwestern Public Health was reporting nine new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Wednesday, Aug. 4, part of an upward trend locally. Over the Civic Holiday weekend, 13 new cases had been confirmed, an average of just over three a day. The number of ongoing cases being tracked by the…
Read MoreFarmer rescued from corn silo
Malahide Fire Service, Aylmer Fire Service, Elgin St. Thomas paramedics, an Ornge air ambulance and Ontario Provincial Police joined forces to rescue a Malahide farmer in his 60s who became trapped to his waist in a corn silo on College Line in Malahide on Saturday, July 31, at about 3 p.m. Ontario Provincial Police Constable…
Read MorePop-up clinic for East Elgin Community Complex
Southwestern Public Health has announced a “pop-up” COVID-19 vaccination clinic to be held in cooperation with East Elgin Family Health Team at East Elgin Community Complex in Aylmer on Thursday, Aug. 5, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Anyone 12 and older is welcome to come for a first or second dose of vaccine, either…
Read MoreOnly seven new cases in last week
During the week ending Sunday, July 25, only seven new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Elgin, Middlesex and London, Southwestern Public Health revealed in weekly “surveillance report” released on Monday, July 26. That compares to 21 new cases the week before that. To date, 78.2 percent of the population of the region 12 and…
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