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EPCOR Utilities, headquartered in Edmonton, announced on Wednesday, Nov. 16 that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Natural Resource Gas (NRG) of Aylmer. NRG is the natural gas company serving over 8,000 customers in Elgin, Middlesex, Oxford and Norfolk counties including Aylmer, Belmont and all of Malahide and Bayham. The sale is subject…

Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Adam Crewdson, left, road support driver Jamie Orozco, Push For Change’s Joe Roberts and Aylmer Police Constable Charity Duckworth stopped briefly on the eastern outskirts of Aylmer before Mr. Roberts trek through town on Tuesday morning, Nov. 15. Mr. Roberts is pushing a customized shopping cart across Canada to…

Toronto-based guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Michael Schatte brought his three-piece (bass and drums) band to Aylmer Old Town Hall Theatre on Saturday evening, Nov. 12 to perform the latest concert in the Aylmer Performing Arts Council’s 2016-17 season. Mr. Schatte is originally from Chatham and performs a eclectic mixture of rock, blues, rockabilly, bluegrass and…

Mayor Greg Currie laid a wreath by the cenotaph on behalf of the town during the Aylmer Remembrance Day service on Friday morning, Nov. 11. As usual, hundreds of local residents and many local dignitaries attended the Remembrance Day service in Aylmer which is organized annually by officials with Royal Canadian Legion, Colonel Talbot Branch…

Trumpeter Gene Coreless performed Last Post before those attending the Springfield Remembrance Day service observed a moment of silence on Friday morning, Nov. 11. Organized annually by the Royal Canadian Legion, Colonel Talbot Branch 81 (Aylmer), wreaths laid by the Springfield cenotaph included ones representing the Government of Canada, Province of Ontario, Township of Malahide,…

Davenport Public School Grade 6 pupil Riley Guilbeault, left, gets some help from motivational speaker and entertainer Saidat Vandenberg with a fun timed challenge involving cup “juggling” during an assembly at the Aylmer school on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 10. Ms. Vandenberg has launched a new slogan, “The Jeremiah Effect,” for The Saidat Show for the…

Davenport Public School pupils Chiquita Soules, left, Katelynn Lockyer and Shelbie Marlor planted some tulip bulbs in the front flower garden of their school on Wednesday morning, Nov. 9. The tulips, specially designed in The Netherlands for the purpose, will grow and blossom into red and white flowers in the spring for a display to…

Dr. Amanda Wiltsie-Thoonen, one of four small animal veterinarians at Imperial Road Animal Hospital in Aylmer, had a pie pushed into her face by her sons Drew, 8, and Gerritt, 6, (not pictured) on Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 8 as part of a campaign the clinic held to raise money for the Farley Foundation. Donation jars…

Cally Hellsten, 7, of London browsed the many items for silent auction during the annual Catholic Women’s League (CWL) Christmas Bazaar in the basement of Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church in Aylmer on Tuesday morning, Nov. 8. Ms. Hellsten’s ancestors lived in the Aylmer and East Elgin area in the 1800s and her…