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Magician Steve Wilson, left, smashed down paper cups, underneath one of which was a spike hidden by Janine Schat, 14, during a “Hoedown” at Jabez Therapy Ranch east of Springfield Saturday night, Oct. 22. The event was a fundraiser for the facility, which uses horses in therapy for youngsters.

Aylmer Baptist Church music director Neil Whyte, left, had Rob Earnshaw turn the pages for him while he played a special concert to celebrate the church’s 200th anniversary on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 16. Entitled “Toe Tappers and Pot Boilers,” Mr. Whyte’s piano performance featured a selection of songs by George Gershwin, Claude Debussy, Scott Joplin,…

Yuri Pool, left, as Paul McCartney and David Usselman, as Denny Laine, performed Jet, a Wings song, at a sold-out Aylmer Old Town Hall Theatre on Saturday evening, Oct. 15 during the latest Aylmer Performing Arts Council concert. Hailed as a preeminent tribute band, The McCartney Years play a note-for-note selection of Beatles and Wings hits…

Stewart Wells, 4, left, received some pointers from Micah Schuurman, 12, during the “Rabbit Rodeo” component of the Care2Cycle event at Immanuel Christian School on Saturday morning, Oct. 15. After the bicycle rodeo for children ages 4-8, 25 riders embarked on one of three cycling routes of 10 kilometres, 20 km or 50 km. A 5…

Residents in the watershed of the Kettle Creek Conservation Authority are being asked to voluntarily reduce their non-essential water use by 20 percent due to the ongoing and persistent dry conditions throughout the region. According to a media release issued by the KCCA on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 13, the KCCA’s Low Water Response Team had…

Aylmer Mayor Greg Currie, left, who’d been “arrested” and brought before a St. Thomas Crime Stoppers court in St. Thomas Thursday, Oct. 13, by town Constable Charity Duckworth, reacted after being told by “Judge” Marg Goulding he’d have to raise $600 for the program before he’d be released from a makeshift cell. Crime Stoppers pays…

Physical Services Director Lloyd Perrin told Central Elgin councillors that, as they had ordered, a contractor had been found to operate the concession stand at the Port Stanley Arena. That stand had been closed, to be replaced by additional vending machines, but user groups lobbied councillors to restore the food concession. Mr. Perrin said a…

Hundreds of runners, walkers, cyclists, rollerbladers and even some scooter riders participated in the 37th annual Tornado Fun Run at the Ontario Police College northeast of Aylmer on Wednesday evening, Oct. 5. This year the event, which returned after a one-year hiatus, raised money for the Aylmer-Malahide Museum and Archives and paid tribute to its…

David Berg, 29, of Aylmer was pronounced dead in hospital after the motorcycle he was driving collided with a pickup truck at the intersection of Talbot Line (Highway 3) and Quaker Road west of New Sarum on Monday, Oct. 3 at about 8 p.m. Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Adam Crewdson said officers, Central…