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Rachel Wiebe helped motivate the children attending the Wednesday night, July 15 session of Open Bible Baptist Church’s Vacation Bible School to get moving and sing during the opening exercises before the children broke up into age groups for other fun activities. Open Bible Baptist Church is located along Hacienda Road just north of Talbot…

Isaac Anjema made an alien during a crafts session for the summer reading club at Belmont library, Tuesday, July 14. The club, for children 3 through 12, meets every Tuesday from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. The library also has a teen reading club.

Miss Saxonia Jane Walker, right, led a group of dancers dressed in traditional costumes during the Heimattag parade down Talbot Street West in Aylmer from St. John’s Lutheran Church to the German Canadian Club about a block away on Sunday morning, July 12. The Aylmer German Canadian Club hosts Heimattag, an annual German, Transylvanian and…

Craig (Johnston) the Science Guy enlisted the help of Vinny Ierullo, 6, to conduct his paint and gravity experiment during the kick-off of the Summer Reading Program at Aylmer Old Town Hall Theatre on Thursday afternoon, July 9. About 50 children attended that afternoon’s event. The Aylmer Library, which occupies the first floor of Old…

Justice Csinos, 12, of Aylmer showed off his just completed (and dry) classic car he made out of wood and stained in the woodworking classroom at East Elgin Secondary School on Thursday morning, July 9 during the Technology Camp offered there that week for pupils entering Grade 8. The four-day free camp had 19 pre-teens…

Two Jersey calves were found eating flowers in the backyard of a South Street West home early on Wednesday, July 8. Since they weren’t causing any great harm, Aylmer Police took the time to call around to local farmers under they found the owner on Brooke Line, who came to collect the strays.

Mike Petersen, as a priest, rehearsed a soliloquy for Old Wives Tale, a play that opens at Port Stanley Festival Theatre on Wednesday, July 8. The story, a “tribute to the wisdom of all the wives in the world,” is directed by Matthew Gorman and continues through Aug. 1.

A nine–year-old Malahide boy was airlifted to hospital and was listed in critical condition after being involved in an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) collision at 8:36 p.m. on Monday, July 6. Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Troy Carlson said the crash occurred at a private property in Malahide. He said a six-year-old girl was driving…

Elgin Innovation Centre Property Manager Eric Bartlett, seen in the middle of this photo by the back of the fire truck, put out a dumpster fire in the north end of the building with an extinguisher before the Aylmer Fire Department could arrive on the scene at about 9 a.m. on Friday, July 3. The…