While an Ontario Provincial Police analyst called the new process “streamlined,” Aylmer’s request to get a quote for OPP service to potentially replace the town’s own municipal police force could take more than a year. Sergeant Kevin Hummel, a “Deployed Contract Analyst” with the OPP’s Municipal Policing Bureau, led a presentation on the OPP costing…
Smoke drifted upward from where a rider was doing a “burn-out” with his motorcycle at host DG Custom Cycle on College Line in Malahide on Saturday afternoon, July 16. A total of 375 riders had just completed the 11th annual “Rotten Ride” put on by the business with help from 50 volunteers and Aylmer Optimist…
Actors from an annual week-long vacation Bible School at Bradley Street Church of God put on “Gold Rush,” a comedy, at the Bandshell at Palmer Park in Aylmer on Friday night, July 15. The park was packed with spectators.
Megan Sleegers, 9, took a plunge in a mock-jungle pool that was part of an obstacle course for Springfield library’s Summer Reading Club on Thursday, July 14. This year, 109 children 6 through 12 years old have signed up for the club, and 32 were out for the weekly special program at the library at…
St. Thomas Councillor Linda Stevenson has resigned from the St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital board of governors in protest of what she describes as attempts to skirt around the provincial salary cap for a new president and chief executive officer being sought by STEGH. “I think the eye has to be on them,” she said…
Ontario Provincial Police officers and Central Elgin firefighters recovered the body of William Johnston, 18, of London in the water off of Port Stanley at about 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 17. The teen was swimming with a 19-year-old woman on Thursday afternoon, July 14 when both experienced trouble in the choppy waves. Emergency personnel…
Marilyn Powers, 10, of Springfield checked out a 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle owned by Don and Nancy Steenbergen of Aylmer during the Aylmer Shrine Cruise Night at the ICS Courier parking lot near the corner of Talbot Street West and Wellington Street on Wednesday evening, July 13. The truck in behind Marilyn was a 1956 Ford…
Dayne Walcarius, 12, applied wood filler to a wooden tool box he was making during Tech Camp at East Elgin Secondary School in Aylmer on Wednesday morning, July 13. The week-long Tech Camp introduced children in Grades 6 and 7 to skilled trades including manufacturing, woodworking and green industries. About 40 children participated in the…
After a lengthy investigation, Independent Police Review Director Gerry McNeilly has come to the conclusion that an Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police investigation of an October 2013 sex attack on a Bayham woman that used DNA canvassing of almost 100 migrant workers “was not motivated by racial prejudice.” Mr. McNeilly’s decision was contained in an…
Brandyn Chilton of St. Thomas, front, was all smiles while being helped along the path by Malahide Mayor Dave Mennill with Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP Jeff Yurek and MP Karen Vecchio trailing behind after they participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the installation of 250 feet of barrier-free access mats on the beach at Port Bruce…
Elgin-St. Thomas Emergency Medical Services paramedics and Jeff Vandewyngaerde, a passing Malahide volunteer firefighter, cared for an older man who fell off an adult three-wheeler after reportedly hitting a curb on the west side of John Street North, just after 4 p.m. on Monday, July 11. He appeared to have sustained an arm injury and…
An outdoor burning ban issued by Malahide Fire Chief Brent Smith on Wednesday, July 6, was cancelled on Monday, July 11. Burning can resume, subject to the township’s usual restrictions and regulations.