Toronto-based guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Michael Schatte brought his three-piece (bass and drums) band to Aylmer Old Town Hall Theatre on Saturday evening, Nov. 12 to perform the latest concert in the Aylmer Performing Arts Council’s 2016-17 season. Mr. Schatte is originally from Chatham and performs a eclectic mixture of rock, blues, rockabilly, bluegrass and…
Mayor Greg Currie laid a wreath by the cenotaph on behalf of the town during the Aylmer Remembrance Day service on Friday morning, Nov. 11. As usual, hundreds of local residents and many local dignitaries attended the Remembrance Day service in Aylmer which is organized annually by officials with Royal Canadian Legion, Colonel Talbot Branch…
Trumpeter Gene Coreless performed Last Post before those attending the Springfield Remembrance Day service observed a moment of silence on Friday morning, Nov. 11. Organized annually by the Royal Canadian Legion, Colonel Talbot Branch 81 (Aylmer), wreaths laid by the Springfield cenotaph included ones representing the Government of Canada, Province of Ontario, Township of Malahide,…
Davenport Public School Grade 6 pupil Riley Guilbeault, left, gets some help from motivational speaker and entertainer Saidat Vandenberg with a fun timed challenge involving cup “juggling” during an assembly at the Aylmer school on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 10. Ms. Vandenberg has launched a new slogan, “The Jeremiah Effect,” for The Saidat Show for the…
Davenport Public School pupils Chiquita Soules, left, Katelynn Lockyer and Shelbie Marlor planted some tulip bulbs in the front flower garden of their school on Wednesday morning, Nov. 9. The tulips, specially designed in The Netherlands for the purpose, will grow and blossom into red and white flowers in the spring for a display to…
Dr. Amanda Wiltsie-Thoonen, one of four small animal veterinarians at Imperial Road Animal Hospital in Aylmer, had a pie pushed into her face by her sons Drew, 8, and Gerritt, 6, (not pictured) on Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 8 as part of a campaign the clinic held to raise money for the Farley Foundation. Donation jars…
Cally Hellsten, 7, of London browsed the many items for silent auction during the annual Catholic Women’s League (CWL) Christmas Bazaar in the basement of Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church in Aylmer on Tuesday morning, Nov. 8. Ms. Hellsten’s ancestors lived in the Aylmer and East Elgin area in the 1800s and her…
Members of the band of 741 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Cadets, led military and other formations across the King George Lift Bridge toward the Port Stanley Cenotaph for a Remembrance Day service on Sunday, Nov. 6. Services were also observed in Vienna and Port Burwell that day. Aylmer, Springfield and Belmont will hold theirs on…
Volunteers Leslie Graham, left, and Joanne Van Eyk put tags on hats, scarves, mittens and gloves donated for the 2016 “Chase the Chill” warm clothing distribution that started Saturday, Nov. 5, at 1 p.m. on the steps of Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church on John Street South in Aylmer. Organizer Marscha Huber said…
East Elgin Secondary School Grade 12 student Seth Cipolla, dressed as The Lion King, sang in a number about Disney film characters during a rehearsal for a showcase that was the culmination of a three-day workshop at East Elgin Secondary School Tuesday night, Nov. 1. A total of 84 youths from Grades 3 through 12…
Rev. Norman Jones will mark the 60th anniversary of his ordination as a minister on Nov. 28. Born, raised and educated in Wales, Rev. Jones came to Canada in 1965 and first served as the pastor of Straffordville United Church and sister congregations in Vienna and Port Burwell for two years. He later served as…
Darrin Whaley dressed up as Green Lantern, middle, handed out candy to “Stormtrooper” Evan Lemko, 7, while he was trick-or-treating along South Street West in Aylmer on Halloween evening, Monday, Oct. 31. Mr. Whaley’s wife Denise (in the red mask at right) and her daughter Hayden Sprague (dressed up as the main character from the…