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East Elgin Secondary School goalie Reese Tyssen made a stick save after being on the receiving end of an Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute shot during a game at East Elgin Community Complex on Thursday, Nov. 26. Despite his efforts, IDCI won the game 3-2. (AE/Rob Perry)

Cameron Richardson of host East Elgin Secondary School’s boys hockey team rushed the puck toward the Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute end during a season-opening game for both teams at East Elgin Community Complex on Thursday, Nov. 28. EESS lost the hardfought match 3-2. Look for another picture in the Dec. 4 Aylmer Express. (AE/Rob Perry)

Yvonne Gavey, left, and Tricia Van Gorp, right, members of a decorating team, helped owner Mary Giesbrecht prepare the interior of the home she shares with husband Frank as one of the stops in the Aylmer and Malahide Museum’s 20th annual Christmas Tour of Homes this coming weekend. The show will run Friday from 4…

Cam Richardson of East Elgin Minor Hockey’s Under 18 hockey team was hemmed in along the boards by a Tavistock opponent but kept moving during a game at East Elgin Community Complex on Saturday, Nov. 9. East Elgin bested the visiting team 4-1, with two goals by Bo Mercer and singles from Colton Dunn and…

All of East Elgin Secondary School’s competitive fall sports teams have now been sidelined after losses in post-season playoffs. Colbie Farr, in picture, of EESS’s Junior girls basketball team kept the ball away from a Lord Dorchester Public School defender during a Southeast AA quarterfinal at EESS Thursday, Oct. 31. But the team went down…

Madi Wiebe of East Elgin Secondary School shot for the Woodstock Huron Park hoop during a Junior girls basketball game on Wednesday, Oct. 23, their last of the regular season. EESS won 39-19 to finish the season with a record of seven wins and one loss, putting it in second place in Thames Valley Southeast…

Abby Knelsen of East Elgin Secondary School passed to a teammate during a game in Aylmer against Lord Dorchester Secondary School on Tuesday, Oct. 15. EESS won that game but lost one on Tuesday, Oct. 22, its first defeat of the season out of seven games. East Elgin’s last home regular-season game is against Huron…

Elementary schools from the region competed at a cross-country meet at Steen Park in Aylmer on Wednesday, Oct. 9. Left picture, Paisley Bakker, Gr. 7, of Immanuel Christian School led the way up a steep slope in the girls Senior 2.5-kilometre cross-country race. She took the gold medal in that event. The school’s other medalist…

The 220 pupils at Straffordville Public School participated in a Terry Fox Run recently to salute the memory of the young Canadian who undertook to run across Canada, despite having an artificial leg, covering the 42-kilometre distance of a marathon every day. Among those having fun along the way were Susie Martens, Gr. 5, left,…

Bill Gheysen of Vienna has been recognized by the Ontario government for over 55 years as a community volunteer through his activities in the Vienna Lions Club. He celebrated his 92nd birthday on Saturday, Sept. 28, as he recovered from a heart attack suffered three weeks before he was interviewed for this story. He considers…