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Library Assistant Christi Fraser, top, led a group of children in the Mad Libs activity in the theatre on the second floor of Aylmer Old Town Hall during the Aylmer Library’s Summer Reading Club program finale on Thursday afternoon, Aug. 6. Mrs. Fraser asked a series of seemingly random questions of the children to fill…

Emily Chyc, 7, played Plinko on Thursday morning, Aug. 6 and won a prize during Game Show Day, the latest Summer Reading Club free activity held at Springfield Library. Prizes included books, small toys and the chance to play other games located elsewhere in the library. The event, entitled “Come play with words,” was the…

Macey Thiessen, 5, of Aylmer, right, received some encouragement from volunteer Sylvia Reeve while navigating the “Camp K” obstacle course, one of the several activities for children set up at the Vacation Bible School at Springfield Baptist Church on Thursday, Aug. 6. The week-long Vacation Bible School had the theme “Camp Kilimanjaro, An Epic Expedition…

Scott Maudsley, left, and Jeff Culbert, playing bachelor farmers, rehearse a scene from “The Drawer Boy,”  the new play opening at Port Stanley Festival Theatre Wednesday, Aug. 5, and continuing through to Saturday, Aug. 22. A young actor comes to stay with the two men to research a role, but long-held secrets emerge as they interact.…

Elgin-Middlesex-London MP Joe Preston on Friday, July 31, announced a $250,000 grant toward needed renovations of the Straffordville Community Centre, which has been closed to the public over safety concerns. Bayham Mayor Paul Ens said his council would now have to decide whether or not to match the grant to make the renovations needed to re-open…

An Aylmer man, 33, has been charged with dangerous driving after allegedly ramming an Ontario Provincial Police cruiser while trying to flee from officers, Wednesday, July 29. Aylmer Police Chief Andre Reymer said town officers began looking for the man that afternoon, based on concern for his well-being created by texts sent to his family,…

Volunteer Karinna DeJong, left, helped Douglas Krahn make his “conversation can” at Bethel United Reformed Church’s Vacation Bible School on Wednesday morning, July 29. After he completed the project, Douglas was to take the can filled with questions printed on little slips of paper home so that he could use them to start conversations with…

Isaac Anjema, left, and Ben Flikkema poked their fingers into a beaker filled with water and some “hydrophobic” blue sand that was floating on top during a fun but still educational Mad Science session provided by scientist Polly Helix (played by Jennifer Vanoorspronk) at the Belmont Library on Tuesday morning, July 28. The theme of…

The nine-year-old Malahide boy who was seriously hurt in an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) collision Monday, July 6 is improving, Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Troy Carlson said in an update on Tuesday morning, July 28. “The boy remains in hospital, however his condition has improved and he has regained consciousness,” he said. “He has…