Summerlyn Gee, 5, left, and her mother Ashley took a closer look at the pyramid brother and son Angus, 9, made as part of his Grade 3/4 class’s display at the McGregor Public School MOMA (Museum of McGregor Art) exhibit in the school’s gymnasium on Wednesday evening, May 6. The exhibit was staged as part…
The draft 2015 budget for East Elgin Community Complex will be the subject of a public meeting at the facility on Wednesday, May 27 starting at 7 p.m. The meeting will likely be in Imperial Room C on the ground floor but that detail had to be confirmed by Complex staff following the Tuesday, May…
The Christmas Day discovery of a dead man in a Talbot Street apartment in St. Thomas has now turned into a murder investigation. A St. Thomas Police spokesman said the death of Danny DiGiandomenico, 36, has now been “classified as a homicide.” Previously, the investigation determined DiGiandomenico died as a result of sharp force trauma…
Aylmer councillors at their Monday, May 4 meeting chose a facilitator to help them and their Malahide counterparts devise a new governance agreement for East Elgin Community Complex. A first joint meeting between the two councils and the facilitator, Jennifer Kirkham of Mischievous Cat Productions of London, has been tentatively set for Tuesday, May 26…
Canadian Mental Health Association Elgin Branch members and staff held a barbecue in Palmer Park in Aylmer at lunch-time on Tuesday, May 5 to kick-off Mental Health Week that ran from May 4-10. The event included live entertainment under the bandshell along with the hot dogs, sausages and burgers the CMHA members and staff were…
United Way of Elgin-St. Thomas raised only 73 percent of its $600,000 goal in its most recent fundraising campaign, and and a two-month emergency effort that followed just $11,400 of its $100,000 target. But at the annual general meeting of the fundraising cooperative Monday, May 4, in St. Thomas, President James Todd and Vice-President Michelle Boyce…
Several women attending the early sitting of an Afternoon Tea at Aylmer Baptist Church on Sunday, May 3 wore elaborate and colourful hats while enjoying a selection of refreshments and listening to the piano playing of Devin Hilliker. Food and beverages served included a cold cucumber soup, scones with clotted cream, a selection of fancy…
Resident Iva Baker was looking for material that her daughter Julie Spitzke of Straffordville could use to help her make quilts during the spring yard sale at Terrace Lodge retirement and nursing home just east of Aylmer on Saturday morning, May 2. The Ladies Auxiliary holds the event to raise money to provide services for…
Legislation named for the late Ryan Gibbons that aims to help asthmatic children in Ontario’s public schools received third reading in the Ontario Legislature on Thursday morning, April 29. Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP Jeff Yurek, who introduced the Private Member’s Bill in the fall of 2013, said the passing of his Private Member’s Bill was an exciting…
Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP Jeff Yurek visited Aylmer family physician Dr. Mike Toth at his office on Thursday, April 30 to promote the next day (May 1) being celebrated as Doctors’ Day in Ontario. May 1st was recognized by the provincial government in 2011 as the official day of appreciation for Ontario’s medical profession. The date was…
An 84-year-old Bayham woman was charged with failing to yield to traffic following a two-vehicle crash at the Elgin-Norfolk border northeast of Vienna on Wednesday morning, April 29. Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Troy Carlson said emergency personnel were called to the crash scene at Calton Line and Elgin County Road 55 at 11:05…
Aylmer Rotary Club hopes to dispatch three to five “ShelterBoxes” overseas to provide victims of a devastating earthquake in Nepal with a temporary home. The boxes contain a six to eight person tent, a stove that can use many types of fuel, blankets, water purification kits, tools, cooking utensils and, to distract traumatized youngsters, a…