First Aylmer Beavers Keiran Hoffer, 6, left, Samantha Chretien, 7, and Zoey Briggs, 5, showed off the cars they made for the 36th annual Kub Kar Rally at Elgin Mall in St. Thomas on Saturday, Feb. 21. Dozens of Cub and Beaver Scouts from throughout Elgin County and St. Thomas participated in this year’s rally.
The United Way of Elgin-St. Thomas, before the official end of its current annual campaign, is already planning an emergency fundraiser to fill a shortfall in its $600,000 goal for this year. And, President James Todd says, how the United Way, which funds 16 local agencies, operates in future will have to be restructured in…
Elgin St. Thomas Medical Officer of Health Dr. Joyce Lock is warning anyone from this area who attended a recent event at the Church on the Queensway (formerly Queensway Cathedral) in Toronto to check their measles immunization records. Someone not from this area who was at the “Acquire the Fire” event Feb. 6 and 7 had…
Environmental educator Shannon Queen, left, helped Sparta Public School Grade 3 pupil Abby Lemke strap on a pair of snowshoes at Jaffa Environmental Education Centre on Wednesday morning, Feb. 18. Ms. Lemke and her classmates were given a quick tutorial on the history of snowshoes and how to put them on before being led out…
Jake Quiring of North Side Towing of Aylmer was among the emergency responders who were called to a single vehicle crash on Lyons Line just east of Imperial Road on Wednesday morning, Feb. 18. A minivan slid off the road and rolled over into a field on the south side of Lyons Line shortly before…
A fire destroyed the inside of a house on John Street South in Aylmer in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Feb. 17. Aylmer Fire Chief Sam Taylor said firefighters were called to the blaze at 12:58 a.m. and by the time the first crews arrived the house was entirely engulfed in flames. Chief Taylor…
Jennifer Fulton, left, and her daughter Samantha, 10, had some muffins and other morning-themed food and read a book together during Port Burwell Public School’s monthly Breakfast with Books event on Friday, Feb. 13. Up to 75 parents, grandparents or adult guardians and pupils attend the event that is helped staged with a Parents Reaching…
A two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Hacienda Road and Glencolin Line northeast of Aylmer blocked traffic in the area shortly before 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12. While it did not appear anyone was seriously hurt, an ambulance arrived on scene shortly after this photo was taken. The roads in the area at the…
Malahide councillors are considering raising the annual rent for a concession booth at Malahide Community Place in Springfield from $1,500 to $10,500 over two to three years. At a budget committee meeting Monday, Feb. 9, Finance Director Suzanna Dieleman said she’d studied the booth rent after a taxpayer raised it at a session a week…
Aylmer’s IGPC ethanol plant will receive an interest-free $3.7-million loan from the federal government, part of a $10-million technology investment that will increase the facility’s production by 10 percent. The announcement was made Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 10 by federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz at the Integrated Grain Processors Cooperative (IGPC) ethanol plant in Aylmer. The…
Malahide councillors at a meeting Thursday, Feb. 5, rescinded an October resolution to replace Lyons sidewalks this year at an estimated cost of $32,000 paid from their 2015 budget. But instead of reducing the scope of or even eliminating the work, as had seemed councillors’ intent following a budget session Monday, Feb. 2, they’re now talking…
Dozens of diners, both young and young at heart, helped support South Dorchester Public School by attending a spaghetti dinner sponsored by the local Lions Club at Belmont Community Centre on Friday night, Feb. 6. The Lions Club donated all of the proceeds of the dinner, which included Caesar salad, garlic bread and beverages, to…