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Volunteer cooks, some having started as early as 7 a.m., put the finishing touches on an annual game dinner at Aylmer Optimist Club, Friday night, Jan. 16. Dishes on the menu included frog’s legs, squirrel, snails, smoked whitefish and lake trout and “Cajun catfish.” About 80 men attended, with proceeds to the club’s youth projects…

In a joint session on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 15, Aylmer and Malahide councillors both voted to abandon awarding a contract to a consultant to prepare a business plan for East Elgin Community Complex and instead will explore hiring a private firm to manage the operations of the twin ice pad facility. The clerks with both…

Robin Granger, president of St. Thomas Soccer, told a special joint meeting of Central Elgin and St. Thomas councils Thursday, Jan. 15, that developing the Hepburn farm on the southwest corner of Fairview and Southdale in Central Elgin would cost an estimated $4.5-million, including $2.2-million to purchase the land. A committee that included sports group,…

Elgin County councillors on Tuesday, Jan. 13, received an architect’s report stating that building a whole new Terrace Lodge long-term care home on the same property as the existing one just outside Aylmer would cost $30-million. Financing that over 25 years would bring the total cost to $47-million, Financial Services Director Jim Bundschuh said, with…

Miranda Ross of St. Thomas, left, sampled some cupcakes made by bakers from Grandma’s Oven at the Aylmer business’s booth during the fifth annual Bridal Expo held at the Canada Southern Railway Station in St. Thomas on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 11. Ms. Ross was accompanied by her mother Sharon, middle, while Grandma’s Kitchen baker Lisa…

Samantha Harris, 8, and her mother Tish of the Aylmer area checked out artwork made by a Parkside Collegiate Institute student that was on display at St. Thomas Elgin Public Art Centre during a reception for the Creating Connections exhibition on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 11. The Alzheimer Society Elgin-St. Thomas partnered with the Art Centre…

London artist Larry Russell celebrated the opening of his exhibition at St. Thomas Elgin Public Art Centre during a reception on Saturday afternoon, Jan.10 at the St. Thomas gallery. Entitled Mind and Memory, the exhibition features almost 70 of Mr. Russell’s abstract landscape acrylic on canvas paintings he has completed in the last just over…

For the second time in three days, all school buses were cancelled in the region for both the Thames Valley District School Board and the London District Catholic School Board on Friday morning, Jan. 9 due to the blowing snow that fell overnight. Schools closed in the Aylmer Express coverage area included New Sarum Public…

Both Aylmer and Malahide councils will hold special meetings on Thursday, Jan. 15 to set up what will hopefully become a joint session of all elected officials immediately afterwards to discuss the next step in the business plan for East Elgin Community Complex. The series of meetings will take place in the Blue Line Room…