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Several Aylmer Police and OPP cruisers responded to a report of a lost child at Clovermead Adventure Farm north of Aylmer on Tuesday afternoon, May 31. Clovermead co-owner Chris Hiemstra said a mother had lost her child briefly and called police before informing staff at the property. “She was panicking,” Mr. Hiemstra said. When Clovermead…

Volunteer Bill Ball manned one of the fryers during the Order of Good Cheer annual perch fish fry at Saxonia Hall just west of Aylmer on Saturday evening, May 28. All proceeds from the event were to help support East Elgin Secondary School’s Environmental Leadership Program. Over 500 tickets were sold for the fish fry…

Malcolm Travis, 2, played with a toy dump truck on the sandy beach at Springwater Conservation Area located southwest of Aylmer on Saturday late afternoon, May 28 while his nearby mother Sara and older sister Quinn, 5, (not seen) tried out the water during Aylmer Baptist Church’s Spring Fling get-together. Those that attended enjoyed dinner…

Periscope Playhouse assistant producer and grant facilitator Leslie Chilcott took a much deserved break in one of the newly installed stadium-style seats at the community theatre’s new venue in Port Burwell on Saturday, May 28. Ms. Chilcott was one of several volunteers who were continuing the renovations on the former Scouting hall at 42 Wellington…

Jason Guenter, 13, left, and his sister Nancy, 11, tried out the paddle boats in a large portable swallow pool of water supplied by Super Air Bounce Rentals of Tillsonburg at the Educational Animal Display and Pony Rides annual open house southeast of Aylmer on Saturday, May 28. Educational Animal Display and Pony Rides, located…

Three men in their early 20s were injured, one suffering “life-altering” injuries, as a result of a single-vehicle rollover crash east of Belmont early Thursday, May 26. Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Adam Crewdson said officers from both the Elgin OPP and Middlesex OPP responded to the crash on Dorchester Road near Avon Road…

Central Elgin Mayor David Marr has promised to appear at a public hearing at Belmont Arena, Thursday, June 2, at 7 p.m., to oppose the proposed closing of the village’s only bank. Scotiabank has announced that it will close its Belmont branch on Jan. 22, 2017, merging it with its St. Thomas bank 20 kilometres…

Central Elgin councillors, in a split vote Tuesday night, May 24, decided that much higher fees for new home building permits should be phased in between now and 2020, two years longer than originally proposed. The change came after an appeal from Dick Greenway of Don West Construction, who argued the higher fees would drive…

Library technician Merrill Taylor, left, helped Dawson Loewen, 9, with his Raspberry Pi kit during the Techy Tuesday workshop at Aylmer Old Town Library on Tuesday afternoon, May 25. That afternoon, the children installed LED (light-emitting diode) lights on circuit boards and then used computer code to turn them off and on. Techy Tuesdays, which…