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Dave Jansen was hard at work picking cucumbers for farm owners Henry and Art Voth on one of their fields located on Pleasant Valley Line just west of Springwater Road southwest of Aylmer on Saturday morning, Aug. 5. The Voth family also produces bell peppers which will be harvested later in August.

Left photo: Lilah Goodman, 5, got up close and personal with a Flemish giant rabbit during the first Community Helper Canadian Celebration held by the Aylmer Old Town Hall Library in the parkette located immediately adjacent to the building on Thursday afternoon, Aug. 3. The large rabbit, along with some ducks, a European rabbit and…

Mya Hepburn, 10, left, and Braylin Clark, 6, were focused on painting their paper mache “monsters” in the basement of the Sparta Church Museum on Thursday morning, Aug. 3 during the annual Children’s Art Camp offered there. The art camp for elementary aged children lasted all of that week in the morning. In addition to…

Blake Penner, 5, tried to get a Fudgee-O, made in Canada, from his forehead to his mouth without using his hands during a relay race at the Springfield library’s Summer Reading Club meeting on Thursday morning, July 27. The theme for this year’s club is “Canada 150,” and the session, focused on Canadian cuisine, was…

Summer student employees Olivia Haldenby, left, and Curtis Hilliker were in period clothing circa the 1890s and played a shopper and general store keeper at one of the displays of the Memories of Main Street exhibit that held a grand opening at the Aylmer-Malahide Museum and Archives on Thursday evening, July 27. Specifically, Mr. Hilliker…

Aylmer volunteer firefighters responded to Precision Fab Inc. (PFI) in the northern industrial section of town along Elm Street on Friday, July 28 shortly after 7:30 a.m. Some smoke was coming from openings or vents on the roof and firefighters had used enough water that some was seen streaming from a south side emergency door.…

Craig (Johnston) the Science Guy added five mints to a bottle of diet cola to create a carbonated geyser during one of several experiments in front of about 50 children and their parents as part of the latest  TD Summer Reading Club series of activities at Aylmer Old Town Hall Theatre on Thursday afternoon, July 27.…

Members of a drill team performed in the Pauline McGibbon Hall during a March Past and Review Ceremony held as part of the graduation ceremony of basic constable cadets at the Ontario Police College located northeast of Aylmer along Hacienda Road. The cadet members of the drill team came up with the routine themselves and…

Aleah Berdan, 5, front left, Alexis Scott, 8, and her sister Emi, 6, tried their “hands” at playing the djembe drum from Africa during an interactive activity at Aylmer Old Town Hall Theatre on Thursday afternoon, July 20. Babarinde “Baba” Williams from Drums et al of Durham brought enough drums for almost 50 youngsters, and…