A group of women volunteering with Bradley Street Church of God had been making home-cooked meals for the work crew replacing the John Street South bridge in Aylmer over the past two weeks leading up to this take-out pizza lunch on Friday, Aug. 19. A spokesman for Gary D. Robinson Contracting Ltd. of Malahide thanked the…
Maeve Hepburn, 11, left, and her sister Mya, 9, continued their weaving projects during the Sparta and District Historical Society Art Camp held at the Sparta Church Museum on Wednesday morning, Aug. 17. A total of 15 children attended the week-long art camp. Each morning, the children participated in various art-themed activities including weaving, print…
Elgin St. Thomas Public Health is warning residents to stay away from bats after another rabid one was found in the area, the second for 2016. The first was found in St. Thomas, and the most recent in Dutton Rabies is spread through the saliva of infected animals from a bite, lick or scratch, causing…
Drivers competed in the first heat of a “Figure 8” race at Aylmer Fair’s “Demo Day” Saturday afternoon, Aug. 13. A couple laps after they started, officials realized the racers were going around in an oval, and reminded them they had to wheel about in a Figure 8. Hilariously, some started going one way and some the…
Tegan Rouse of Belmont 4-H Dairy Club caught the eye of the judge during the annual Elgin 4-H Interclub Showmanship and Conformation Competition in the cattle barn at Aylmer Fair, Saturday morning, Aug. 13. She was vying for honours along with others in the Intermediate Dairy Showmanship class for 4-H members 13 through 15 years old.
The entry of Daag’s Used Tires of Aylmer sped around a course for the Garage Challenge Banger Race at Aylmer Fair, Friday night, Aug. 12. Local businesses entered cars in the event, where drivers were free to bang into the sides of their competitors–though sometimes other parts got involved as well.
St. Thomas Police have charged two men with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Billy Lamers, an East Elgin Secondary School alumnus, at his St. Thomas apartment. Police say Mr. Lamers was stabbed at 337 Talbot St. at about 12:45 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 11, and later died at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital. Police have…
Fireworks exploded in the sky over the Aylmer Fair on opening night, Thursday, Aug. 11. The fair splurged on a spectacular 20-minutes pyrotechnic display to celebrate its 170th birthday. The annual agricultural exhibition continues through Sunday.
Despite torrid weather the afternoon of Thursday, Aug. 11, brave youngsters still came out for their first rides on the Aylmer Fair Midway. Admission Thursday is by donation, and the opening day will be topped off with fireworks at dusk.
Jan Everett of London, right, read a children’s book she wrote and illustrated about her husband John’s efforts to save turtles along the Long Point Causeway between Long Point Bay and Turtle Creek Marsh to Summer Reading Club members at the Fred Bodsworth Library in Port Burwell during their final summer session, Tuesday afternoon, Aug.…
Tall ship The Pathfinder was seen coming into shore on the late morning of Saturday, Aug. 6 during Port Stanley Harbourfest. The Pathfinder is a brigantine which was designed and built as a sail training vessel for Toronto Brigantine Inc. by Francis A. McLachlan in Kingston and launched in 1963. Those attending Harbourfest could pay…
The passenger of a pickup truck, Jerimiah Hakeem Krahn, 20, of Aylmer was pronounced dead at the scene of a three-vehicle crash that occurred on Highbury Avenue south of Ferguson Line northeast of St. Thomas in the late morning of Friday, Aug. 5. The driver of the silver Dodge pickup, David Guenther, 47, of Bayham,…