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Davenport Public School pupil Kayla Sawatzky was one of several guitarists who performed a selection of songs during the school’s annual Winter Concert dress rehearsal on Wednesday, Dec. 17. A choir also sang some winter-themed songs between the group guitar performances.

It will be 2015 before any decisions are made on a long-awaited business plan for East Elgin Community Complex. Newly elected Mayor Greg Currie was supported by most councillors to put off decisions to hold a joint meeting with Malahide councillors and to award a contract to a qualified consultant to prepare a business plan.…

Santa Claus, played by Kayla Voros, left, and Mrs. Claus, played by Sarah Thomas, share a quieter moment on the couch in front of a hockey game playing on their television during Springfield Public School’s production of Slapshot Santa Scores Again on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 16. The fun, Christmas-themed play included several songs performed by…

East Elgin Secondary School Grade 11-12 dance class students Clarissa Giesbrecht, front left, Monique Froese and Claire Dennis, along with their teacher Alicia Steenholdt, front right, led the Grade 8 pupils at Summers Corners Public School through a hip hop-style warm-up to the song Fireball by Pitbull on Monday, Dec. 15. Not pictured was dance…

Elgin-Middlesex-London MP Joe Preston, left, and his provincial counterpart Jeff Yurek waved to the crowd and threw down candy canes during the annual Straffordville Santa Claus Parade on Saturday morning, Dec. 13. The parade route had to be altered for this year’s Christmas-themed parade as the Straffordville Community Centre, usually where the parade ends and…

Betty Elliott, left, and her daughter Patricia Baker set up over 380 Christmas Nativities from their joint collection in the Parish Hall next to Port Burwell Trinity Anglican Church for a free display that was open to the public on Friday, Dec. 12. The public display would continue on Saturday, Dec. 13 from 1-8 p.m.…

Elgin County councillors on Thursday, Dec. 11, strongly objected to proposed changes to how potential closings of rural and small urban schools were handled. They were up in arms that the current “Accommodation Review Committees” (ARCs), that must hold public hearings before a school could be closed by any board of education, might be eliminated.…

Assumption Catholic Elementary School pupils Cole Brower, front row left, Trenton Masschaele, Ivana Csinos, back left, Melena Siannas and Zoe Hodgetts played costumed characters in the dress rehearsal for the school’s annual Christmas Concert at Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, Dec. 11. The performance for their parents, grandparents and friends was…

A seemingly pensive Yuki Martell as Santa Claus awaited his class’s turn on stage during a dress rehearsal for a Christmas concert at Summers Corners Public School the afternoon of Wednesday, Dec. 10. A public performance was held that night.