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,…
Rylee Peters, 7, navigated the “Rabbit Rodeo” course on her bicycle in the Immanuel Christian School parking lot on Saturday morning, Oct. 3 before groups of other cyclists took off for the Care 2 Cycle rides from the Aylmer school. The event, which involved 10-kilometre, 30 km and 50 km cycling rides, raised money for…
McGregor Public School Principal Charlotte Wall, right, got ready to take a swing at a wet sponge thrown by pupil Ryan Penner, left, with Aylmer Old Town Hall Library assistant Mary Wiebe looking on Thursday, Oct. 1 during a celebration of the pupils at the Aylmer school helping to surpass the library’s Summer Reading Club…
A large warehouse at the Elgin Innovation Centre (EIC) in the former Imperial Tobacco Canada plant is about to be transformed into a state-of-the-art shrimp farm. EIC Chief Executive Officer Jack Baribeau said the first set of municipal building permits had been issued on Friday, Oct. 2 for the renovation work at the warehouse located…
Katie Millard, left, Connor Palmer, Mindy Epp and Elia Parker were among the pupils participating in a Terry Fox Run at Straffordville Public School in cool weather on Thursday, Oct. 1. Proceeds from the fundraiser will go to cancer research.
About 50 local residents gathered outside the municipal office in Straffordville before the Thursday, Oct. 1 Bayham council meeting to show their opposition of the sale of nearby Community Centre to Straffordville Evangelical Mennonite Church. A “citizens group” had collected 577 signatures on a petition stating they opposed the sale of the hall and one…