Aylmer councillors at their Tuesday, May 20 meeting approved sending out a request for proposals to consulting firms to bid on preparing a business plan to implement major proposed changes in how East Elgin Community Complex operates. Malahide councillors had approved sending out the RFP at a meeting a few days prior. Aylmer councillors also approved:…
A 47-year-old Aylmer man was airlifted to hospital after the paraglider he was flying crashed east of Port Bruce on Sunday, May 18. The crash happened just after 2 p.m. south of Dexter Line when the “experienced paraglider pilot” lost control of the aircraft (parachute with seat) and struck the side of a cliff, Elgin County Ontario…
A 29-year-old Springfield man was arrested on Thursday, May 15 and faced several criminal drug-related charges after a search warrant was executed by police officers at his Pressey Line home. Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police along with the OPP Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau and Drug Enforcement Unit searched the home and seized marijuana bud and…
Elgin-Middlesex-London Progressive Conservative MPP Jeff Yurek accused New Democrat candidate Kathy Cornish of “fear mongering” during the Rogers Cable debate in St. Thomas on Thursday, May 15. Prior to MPP Yurek’s comment, Ms. Cornish said the PC party would lay off 100,000 teachers if it formed government after the June 12 provincial election. All five…
Elgin councillors voted unanimously Tuesday, May 13, to commission detailed plans for a new building to house the county museum, archives, Provincial Offences court…and now the entire administration. In 2012, councillors started looking at larger quarters for the museum and archives, as well as Elgin’s Provincial Offences court. Then they tagged on a new council…
Tyler Reimer played “Blessed Be Your Name” on guitar during the first annual South Dorchester Public School Talent Show, Friday, May 9. A total of 27 pupils submitted acts, along with two hosts and four pupils who made up the stage crew.
Aylmer-Malahide liaison committee members Friday, May 9, unanimously recommended their respective councils put a hold on signing further contracts for any more 2015 banquet hall bookings and summer ice rentals at East Elgin Community Complex, while the future of the facility is decided. They also unanimously suggested that the councils approve seeking a consultant to prepare a…
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…