by Rob Perry of The Aylmer Express You have to feel for Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, the ageing siblings and Prince Edward Island farmers portrayed in the play Anne of Green Gables at East Elgin Secondary School this week. When they mistakenly get Anne Shirley instead of a boy from an orphanage to help out…
Serge Lavoie of St. Thomas will be the Liberal candidate in the June 12 provincial election. His candidacy was announced by the Elgin-Middlesex-London Provincial Liberal Association by media release on Thursday, May 8. Confirmation of his nomination was to take place late that afternoon at a fundraising event in St. Thomas with Ted McMeekin, Liberal…
South Dorchester Public School Grade 5 pupils Owen Gillet, left, Ben Aumont and Kevin Guikema teamed up to make homemade water filters during an Education Week activity in teacher Andrea Powers’ class on Wednesday, May 7. Owen was scooping stones into the filter and later the boys poured red coloured dyed water through their filter…
A story in the May 7 Aylmer Express about the theft of one pickup truck, and an attempt to steal another, on Sunday, May 4, should have said the vehicles had been parked in the Aylmer Christian Reformed Church parking lot at Caverly Road and South Street.
Malahide councillors on Thursday, May 1, unanimously asked a joint township-Aylmer committee to commission a business plan for moving the town library to East Elgin Community Complex, as well as other possible changes to the facility. They had just received formal confirmation that Aylmer councillors were willing to put the library there, and a suggestion…
Incumbent Jeff Yurek is the only candidate so far known to the Express in the June 12 provincial election in Elgin-Middlesex-London riding. Meanwhile, Kathy Cornish of St. Thomas, who ran for the New Democratic Party in the 2011 provincial election, was seeking the nomination to challenge MPP Yurek. The local Liberal candidate in the 2011…
Abigail Reid as Anne Shirley, left, and Cassy Dyck as Diana Barry rehearsed a scene from Anne of Green Gables at East Elgin Secondary School, Sunday, May 4. Their characters were just home from a Christmas ball, and they were reliving the night. This non-musical version of the classic Prince Edward Island story involves about 45…
The Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police requested assistance from the public on Monday, May 5 to find a “suspicious” man who was encountered by a Port Stanley resident on Tuesday, April 29 at about 2:45 p.m. On that day and time a man approached a residence on the outskirts of Port Stanley “in a suspicious…
A provincial election will be held in Ontario on Thursday, June 12. Premier Kathleen Wynne asked the Lieutenant Governor Friday, May 2, to dissolve the Legislature after the New Democratic Party and Progressive Conservative Party made clear they wouldn’t support her government’s budget, which was presented on Thursday, May 1.
Long-time Bayham Councillor Wayne Casier is hoping to retain his position in the Oct. 27 municipal election. He filed his nomination to run in the fall vote on Wednesday, April 30. He served on the former Township of Bayham council from 1991 to 1997 before it was amalgamated into the Municipality of Bayham with the…
The only known public access to information on the now ended contest to win a Malahide house through an essay writing contest has been removed. The Essay House Facebook page was taken down on Thursday, May 1 sometime after mid-morning. The couple who put up their home and property as the prize in the contest…
Aylmer-area native Shannon VanRaes was named the Agricultural Journalist of the Year by the North American Agricultural Journalists Association (NAAJ) at a recent conference in Washington, D.C. She won the honour for her series of investigative stories for the Manitoba Co-operator on a failed hemp-processing venture. She was cited by the judge for chronicling how…