Elgin County councillors on Tuesday, Oct. 21, deferred for now a request from Bayham to rezone the former Port Burwell fire hall to allow it to be sold for conversion to a private residence. They want an investigation of an assertion by Susan Start, who leads opponents to the change, that Market Square, including the…
The Aylmer library will receive a $40,000 grant from the Dorothy Palmer Estate to help youth study current and emerging technologies. Aylmer Mayor Jack Couckuyt announced the grant during his mayor’s report near the end of the public portion of Monday night’s council meeting. The funding was to be received by the Elgin County Library and…
Malahide Financial Services Director Suzanna Dieleman announced Monday, Oct. 20, she’ll seek the Conservative nomination for the next federal election in Elgin-Middlesex-London riding. She’s looking to replace MP Joe Preston, who has announced he won’t seek re-election. Mr. Preston’s longtime riding assistant, Karen Vecchio, is also seeking the nomination, and West Elgin funeral director Bill…
Four Harvard airplanes flew by Doug Newell’s property on Springfield Road south of Glencolin Line on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 18. The multiple flybys were a tribute to Mr. Newell’s father Bob Newell who died peacefully of natural causes at age 91 at his Tillsonburg home on Oct. 10. His wife of 67 years, Dorothy, and…
Kade McLeod, left, was thrilled to meet Olaf, the snowman from the 2013 Disney animated movie Frozen, who paid a surprise visit to McGregor Public School in Aylmer on Friday, Oct. 17 for the latest Movie Night. After the young and the young at heart had a chance to meet Olaf, Frozen was shown in…
Former Aylmer resident and businessman Peter Banman says he offered to purchase the remaining almost 6,000 square feet of vacant ground floor commercial space at Aylmer Trillium Park condominiums for over $1-million and donate it to the Town of Aylmer as a gift in May before withdrawing the offer just over a week later. When…
A baby girl arrived sooner than expected and in an unlikely place on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 15. Middlesex County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Laurie Houghton said at 7:47 a.m. officers responded to a report of a woman in labour and about to deliver her baby at the Highway 401 westbound on ramp from…
A head-on collision between a pickup truck and a tractor trailer had Highway 3 (Talbot Line) closed to traffic east of Aylmer between Heritage Road and Culloden Road for much of the day on Thursday, Oct. 16. Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Troy Carlson said the crash happened at about 6:35 a.m. just east of Springer…
Central Elgin councillors on Tuesday, Oct. 14, accepted with regrets the resignation of Ward 4 Councillor Russ Matthews. He informed council in a letter that, as of Oct. 1, he no longer owned or rented land in Central Elgin, disqualifying him from office. Councillors decided to take no action to fill the vacancy before the…
Fifteen teachers and support staff at Springfield Public School, led by Principal Jennifer Burns, right, dressed up as chickens and danced to the Chicken Dance song during an assembly at the school on Friday, Oct. 10. The staff challenged the pupils to raise $500 or more for the Terry Fox Foundation and if they reached…
Well over 200 interested citizens filled Vienna Community Centre for the Aylmer Express-sponsored Bayham all-candidates meeting on Thursday night, Oct. 9. All of the candidates in the Oct. 27 municipal election answered a series of questions from those attending the almost two and a half hour event. Although other topics were broached, the HMCS Ojibwa…
Friends Madeleine Krahn, left, and Alexandra Couto, both 11, participated in the 36th annual Ontario Police College Tornado Fun Run on Wednesday, Oct. 8. Between 700 and 800 runners, walkers, cyclists, rollerbladers and skateboarders were expected to take part and raise an estimated $15,000 for The Sunshine Foundation (which will receive 75 percent) and the…