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Sandy and Barry Keep set up their lawn chairs right by the side of the road along Wellington Street in Port Burwell for the Canada Day parade going by late Friday morning, July 1. The Canada Day festivities in Port Burwell included the parade, the singing of O Canada and the raising of the Canadian…

Mac Clinton, 4, of Southwold, on a visit to his grandmother, participated in the Belmont Lions Club’s annual bicycle safety rodeo on Canada Day. The event preceded a parade of patriotically-decorated bicycles from the fire station to Don Yeck Park for more Canada Day activities.

The rest of the entire pupil body participated in a spirited “clap-out” ceremony congratulating the exiting Grade 4 pupils as they paraded out of McGregor Public School in Aylmer for one last time on the last day of the 2015-16 school year on Wednesday, June 29 at 3:20 p.m. The second annual “clap-out” ceremony at…

Aylmer Police Sergeant William Gibson reported that an 800-pound steer, newly-neutered, was chased through town by its owner and police officers on Sunday morning, June 26. Police first received a report of a stray cow in Steen Park, but instead found only the Malahide owner, who let them know it was a steer. Then residents…

Liam Grech, 13, right, greeted Kaylee Babcock, one of the members of the “Jeep convoy” that descended upon his Myrtle Street neighbourhood in Aylmer on Monday evening, June 27 as part of the celebration of his graduation from Grade 8 at Davenport Public School. A total of eight Jeeps and other vehicles participated in the…

South Dorchester Public School kindergarten pupil Alex Berkelmans, middle, auctioned off his artwork, a small tree, during the third annual Come Grow With Us Full-Day Kindergarten Art Auction held at the school on Monday morning, June 27. Helping out with the auction were kindergarten teachers Jennifer Shackelton (wife of Shackelton Auctions’ Mike Shackelton), left, and…

Evan Neusteter, 11, sprang off of the low diving board and did a side flip into the diving tank at the Aylmer Pool on Saturday afternoon, June 25. The outdoor aquatic complex opened “unofficially” the night before with a public swim followed by afternoon public swims on both Saturday and Sunday. The Aylmer Pool officially…

Taytum Pattenden, 7, left, and her brothers Carson, 5, and Colton, 9, of Sebright (near Orillia) petted some dairy cows in one of the barns at Mistyglen Holsteins south of Belmont on Yorke Line on Saturday, June 25. Mistyglen owners Suzanne Pettit and her brother Tom Pettit hosted the open house at their robotic dairy…

On the late morning of Saturday, June 25, re-enactors marched from St. Thomas City Hall to the Canada Southern (CASO) Railway Station before a ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of the departure of the 91st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, to fight in the First Great War. On June 25, 1916, over 900 men from Elgin County…

Auctioneer Cal Yutzi of Yutzi Auctions took bids for a lot of tools, some of the multitude of donated items up for sale during the 16th annual Mennonite Community Services (MCS) Charity Auction at the Aylmer Curling Club on Saturday morning, June 25. The day of raising money for MCS Aylmer and Mennonite Central Committee…