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Community paramedicine for Bayham
Elgin County councillors at a meeting Tuesday, Oct. 21, approved a two-year pilot program where ambulance paramedics will make preventive visits to the homes of patients who frequently call for emergency help. Medavie, the contractor providing land ambulances services for Elgin and St. Thomas, has received Ontario funding for training and set-up costs, and has…
Read MoreAylmer candidates respond to questions
All candidates for Aylmer mayor, deputy mayor and councillors were submitted the same six questions by the Aylmer Express. The unedited responses can be seen by clicking the link after each question. 1. What, if any, changes would you make at East Elgin Community Complex to reduce the operating deficit? Click here to see…
Read MoreMarket Square change on hold
Elgin County councillors on Tuesday, Oct. 21, deferred for now a request from Bayham to rezone the former Port Burwell fire hall to allow it to be sold for conversion to a private residence. They want an investigation of an assertion by Susan Start, who leads opponents to the change, that Market Square, including the…
Read MoreLibrary to receive $40,000 Palmer Estate grant
The Aylmer library will receive a $40,000 grant from the Dorothy Palmer Estate to help youth study current and emerging technologies. Aylmer Mayor Jack Couckuyt announced the grant during his mayor’s report near the end of the public portion of Monday night’s council meeting. The funding was to be received by the Elgin County Library and…
Read MoreSuzanna Dieleman in running to replace Preston
Malahide Financial Services Director Suzanna Dieleman announced Monday, Oct. 20, she’ll seek the Conservative nomination for the next federal election in Elgin-Middlesex-London riding. She’s looking to replace MP Joe Preston, who has announced he won’t seek re-election. Mr. Preston’s longtime riding assistant, Karen Vecchio, is also seeking the nomination, and West Elgin funeral director Bill…
Read MoreHarvard flyby in memory of Bob Newell
Four Harvard airplanes flew by Doug Newell’s property on Springfield Road south of Glencolin Line on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 18. The multiple flybys were a tribute to Mr. Newell’s father Bob Newell who died peacefully of natural causes at age 91 at his Tillsonburg home on Oct. 10. His wife of 67 years, Dorothy, and…
Read MoreOlaf visits McGregor Public School
Kade McLeod, left, was thrilled to meet Olaf, the snowman from the 2013 Disney animated movie Frozen, who paid a surprise visit to McGregor Public School in Aylmer on Friday, Oct. 17 for the latest Movie Night. After the young and the young at heart had a chance to meet Olaf, Frozen was shown in…
Read More“Free” library space never formally offered
Former Aylmer resident and businessman Peter Banman says he offered to purchase the remaining almost 6,000 square feet of vacant ground floor commercial space at Aylmer Trillium Park condominiums for over $1-million and donate it to the Town of Aylmer as a gift in May before withdrawing the offer just over a week later. When…
Read MoreBaby girl delivered on 401 on ramp
A baby girl arrived sooner than expected and in an unlikely place on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 15. Middlesex County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Laurie Houghton said at 7:47 a.m. officers responded to a report of a woman in labour and about to deliver her baby at the Highway 401 westbound on ramp from…
Read MoreCrash closes Hwy. 3 east of Aylmer
A head-on collision between a pickup truck and a tractor trailer had Highway 3 (Talbot Line) closed to traffic east of Aylmer between Heritage Road and Culloden Road for much of the day on Thursday, Oct. 16. Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Troy Carlson said the crash happened at about 6:35 a.m. just east of Springer…
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