Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday, Feb. 24, announced that 6,000 students enrolled in personal support worker programs at the province’s 24 colleges starting in April would pay nothing for their training. The government was investing a total of $115-million in that, and to provide $2,000 in tuition assistance for 2,200 students currently enrolled in…
Southwestern Public Health is reporting no new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Middlesex on Wednesday, Feb. 24, down from six new cases on Tuesday. Across the region, the health unit is tracking 28 ongoing cases, down from 35 the previous day. St. Thomas and area dropped to four cases Wednesday from…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting no confirmed ongoing cases of COVID-19 in Aylmer and area on Tuesday, Feb. 23, down from one on Monday. Six new cases were confirmed by testing in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Tuesday, but the number of ongoing cases across the region dropped to 35 from 40. St. Thomas…
Southwestern Public Health reported no new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday, Feb. 22, the first time that has happened in months. The number of ongoing cases in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford dropped to 40 Monday from 43 on Sunday. St. Thomas and area stayed at nine ongoing cases and Aylmer and area, Dutton…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting two new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Sunday, Feb. 21, the same as on Saturday. The health unit is tracking 43 ongoing cases across the region, up from 42 on Saturday. St. Thomas and area remained at nine cases on Sunday, and Aylmer and…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting two fatalities connected to COVID-19, one involving at resident at Aylmer Retirement Residence, on Saturday, Feb. 20. That brought the number of deaths in the Southwestern region linked to COVID-19 to 67. One of the fatalities was an Elgin woman in her 90s who resided at Aylmer Retirement Residence, and…
Southwestern Public Health reported only one new confirmed case of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Friday, Feb. 19, down from nine the previous day. The number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit also dropped, to 50 from 61. Dutton Dunwich decreased to one ongoing case on Friday from two…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting nine new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Thursday, Feb. 18, up from two on Wednesday. However, the number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit remained unchanged at 61 as recoveries offset new infections. One fatality was reported Thursday, an Oxford woman…
A major fire erupted in at least one barn at Walker Farms in Summers Corners on Wednesday, Feb. 17, just before 5 p.m. Firefighters streamed in from Malahide, Bayham, Central Elgin and Aylmer to fight the blaze, including Aylmer’s aerial truck, seen here. Meanwhile, workers drove cows that had been evacuated from barns towards waiting…
Dr. Joyce Lock, medical officer of health for Southwestern Public Health, says she’s pleased with the continued downward trend in the number of COVID-19 cases in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford, but doesn’t want the public becoming complacent about precautions they should take. During a weekly news conference Wednesday, Feb. 17, she said everyone should…
The Provincial Police and Office of the Chief Coroner are issuing a warning about vehicle safety after a 20-year-old Bayham woman was found dead in Ingersoll. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Oxford detachment responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle at a Charles Street West parking lot in Ingersoll on Monday, Feb. 15, at…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting just five new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Tuesday, Feb. 16, up from three the previous day. The number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit decreased to 85 from 91. St. Thomas and area rose slightly to nine ongoing cases Tuesday…