Lydia Deelstra performed the City and Colour song Lover Come Back during the St. Patrick’s Day Coffee House held at East Elgin Secondary School on Wednesday evening, March 9. Coffee House provides EESS students an opportunity to perform in public with proceeds going towards the school’s music program.
An Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police officer accidentally backed his cruiser into a ditch right beside one of the laneways at Aylmer Evangelical Mennonite Mission Church in Summers Corners on Tuesday, March 8 shortly after 3 p.m. Buses had just begun arriving at Summers Corners Public School across the road to take pupils home. The officer,…
Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change Inspector Thomas Hansen, left, directed a police officer to where he could be of assistance during a commercial vehicle inspection blitz on Progress Drive in Aylmer on Tuesday morning, March 8. Mr. Hansen had just used an on-board diagnostic scanner to find out why a check engine light…
Grade 5 pupil Tom Beggs pushed Grade 2 pupil Payton Schnarr during a heat of a toboggan race at South Dorchester Public School’s Winter Carnival on Friday afternoon, March 4. The sunny skies and not too cold temperatures that day provided ideal conditions for holding the Carnival.
A pair of an estimated 340 Tundra swans were seen in the water early Saturday afternoon, March 5 at the Aylmer Wildlife Management Area (WMA) located just south of the Ontario Police College off Hacienda Road northeast of Aylmer. The Tundra swans arrived in greater numbers on Tuesday, March 1 with 116 counted by volunteers with…
Meyah Blanchard, 4, of St. Thomas got a high five from Smokey the Bear at the Springwater Maple Syrup Festival on Saturday morning, March 5. The Festival will continue on weekends (Saturday and Sunday) until March 20 and on March Break (March 14-18) from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Springwater Conservation Area located on…
Aylmer Fair Board President Scott Lewis, left, handed Mike Vecchio, the husband of Elgin-Middlesex-London MP Karen Vecchio, a new egg to colour while Whitney McWilliam, the executive assistant for MPP Jeff Yurek, continued colouring her egg during the opening ceremonies of the seventh annual Aylmer and East Elgin Home, Garden and Rec Show at East Elgin…
Aylmer councillors managed to bring a tax levy increase of 9.84 percent down to 5.87 percent as they whittled away at the 2016 draft budget line by line during the Wednesday, March 2 Finance Committee meeting. They reduced the amount of taxation in the budget by $198,500 in several different areas, the largest line item…
A build up of ice from freezing rain caused a large portion of an old tree to fall across power lines on John Street South in Aylmer in the early evening of Tuesday, March 1. This photo was taken the next morning shortly after 8 a.m. Erie Thames Powerlines reported that the fallen tree branches…
Aylmer councillors did a lot of listening and little decision making during the second finance committee meeting of 2016 on Monday, Feb. 29 to work on the 2016 budget. Rather than make any decisions during the meeting, finance committee chairman Ann Laur suggested councillors just listen to the staff reports and wait to do a…
Malahide councillors on Monday, Feb. 29, gave preliminary approval to a 2016 budget of $6.37-million that calls for a 3.55 percent increase, or $218,000, in the township’s property tax levy. Finance Director Suzanna Dieleman said that would mean a home assessed at a value of $250,000 would pay an additional $53 to Malahide this year,…
Full-day kindergarten pupils Cooper Walcarius, left, Mya Klassen and Jada Wiebe joined in the Pink Shirt Day fun at Summers Corners Public School on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Many pupils in all grades wore pink shirts, shoes and other pieces of clothing to school that day.