Edie Vindasius, left, waits her turn to try some soup while Marianne Fehr ladles out a bowl for herself at the ASPIRE (Arbeit Schule Program in Rural Elgin) open house and soup and bun night at East Elgin Secondary School in Aylmer on Tuesday evening, Oct. 20. Community volunteers made several varieties of soup that…
A two-vehicle crash occurred on Talbot Street East just east of Elk Street on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 20 near the Aylmer/Malahide border. It appeared that the front end of a beige Pontiac Sunfire collided with the back bumper of a black Ford F150 pickup truck at about 3:15 p.m. Although no official details were available…
Conservative candidate Karen Vecchio, middle, was greeted by her former employer and retiring Elgin-Middlesex-London MP Joe Preston, left, and her campaign manager Brian Clements as she arrived at her victory party at Boston Pizza in St. Thomas at about 10:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 19 after she was declared the winner of the federal election for…
Central Elgin councillors, at a special meeting on Friday morning, Oct. 16, gave the green light to a proposed small-scale wind-power project for the south end of the municipality. Andreas Schneider says his proposed Fairview Community Wind Park involving 17 landowners would be a financial boon to them and keep out “big wind” corporations such…
Juno Award nominee and United Kingdom Songwriting Contest winner Alysha Brilla and her band played to a sold-out audience at Aylmer Old Town Hall Theatre on Saturday night, Oct. 17 in the latest Aylmer Performing Arts Council show. The critically-acclaimed Tanzanian-Canadian singer, songwriter and producer also plays guitar, piano and djembe (a West African hand…
Beaver Ryder Jensen, 7, front left, and Cub Chris Westley, 8, greeted Ingersoll’s John Verhoeven as he entered the Aylmer No Frills grocery store on Saturday morning, Oct. 17, by asking him if he wanted an apple in exchange for a small donation. Beavers, Cubs and Scouts were at various locations in Aylmer on Friday…
A public meeting on overcrowding at Pierre Elliot Trudeau School in St. Thomas, and how that might affect Port Stanley Public School starting in September of 2016, will be held at the Port Stanley PS library on Thursdsay night, Oct. 15, starting at 6:30 p.m. Mayor David Marr told a Central Elgin council meeting Tuesday,…
Central Elgin councillors will hold a special meeting this Friday morning, Oct. 16, at 9 a.m. to consider a small-scale windpower project proposed by Andreas Schneider. He told councillors Tuesday night, Oct. 13, that the project would return more revenue to landowners than a large-scale development, use smaller windmills and effectively “lock out” big corporations…
A four-month-old boy and later his father have died as a result of a two-vehicle crash northeast of St. Thomas on Wednesday night, Oct. 7. The driver of the other vehicle involved in the crash, a 68-year-old Malahide man, has been charged with several dangerous driving and criminal negligence causing death and bodily harm-related offences.…
“Did you not get the memo that you lost the last election?” asked Councillor Ted McDonald of former mayor Jack Couckuyt at the Monday, Oct. 5 council meeting. Cr. McDonald tore into Mr. Counckuyt after his presentation to council in support of building a new downtown library. While mayor, Mr. Couckuyt failed to get enough…
Assumption Catholic Elementary School Grade 7 pupils got ready to make like Monarch butterflies at the Monarch Migration Madness station during the Carolinian Forest Festival at Springwater Conservation Area on Tuesday, Oct. 6. Over 500 London District Catholic School Board Grade 6 and 7 pupils visited Springwater on that day and the next for the annual…
A masked maniac with a crowbar and the “surgeon murder clown” are two of the scary characters awaiting those who brave the Aylmer Fair Haunted House in the old curling club building at the Aylmer Fairgrounds. The Haunted House continues each Friday and Saturday night from 7-9 p.m. during October including on Halloween night (Saturday,…