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The competition squad from Parkside Collegiate Institute’s “ThunderStamps” robotics team, after qualifying at a provincial championship in Niagara Falls recently, is travelling to Houston, Texas for the FIRST World Robotics Championship. They will compete against teams from around the world for the top prizes. The team is both largely sponsored and mentored by ETBO Tool…

Evan Firby, representing event sponsor Zap’s Tree Service of Aylmer, holds one of three tagged trout being transferred by Conservation Areas Supervisor Al Bradford into garbage bins full of water, to be released into Springwater Pond on Thursday, April 16. Catfish Creek Conservation Authority is preparing for its annual Trout Derby, starting Saturday, April 25,…

If everything goes as planned, St. Thomas world traveller Syed Hasan will be in Nigeria now, beginning a six-country solo tour of the African continent, on his way to increasing his lifetime total for independent nations visited to 193. Mr. Hasan is on a quest to visit all the countries in the world – 195…

Jacie Weber, 3, settled in for a nap with her teddy bear after she and other ballet/jazz dance students, two-and-a-half to four years old, performed to Oh Bear and then Teddy Bear Picnic during the 43rd annual season-ended recital for Tammy’s Dance Studio at Immanuel Christian School on Saturday, March 28. More pictures in the…

Jed Parry of Aylmer Minor Hockey’s Under 11 White team hustled the puck down the ice during a playoff game against Lambton Shores at East Elgin Community Complex on Sunday, March 22. Coach Abe Redecop said the best-of-three series has been a challenge for the Aylmer squad. “They have been a tough opponent for us.…

Grade 7 and 8 pupils at Summers Corners Public School, in an annual entrepreneurial showcase, started their own businesses, with products offered for sale to staff and fellow pupils during the day on Wednesday, March, 11, and, pictured here, at night for family members and the general public. The event recorded almost $14,000 in sales.…

Local train enthusiast David Harding took a crowd at the Vienna, Edison and Area Museum along on a 1980 expedition he filmed travelling by pumper car on the former Tillsonburg to Port Burwell railway line, now torn up and a utility corridor, recently. He noted that he was a founding member of the Port Stanley…

Aylmer Kinsmen Club members Joe Gaudette, left, Al Bradford, Robert Jans, Stacey Gaudette, Andy Beck, Perry Babb, Paul Bode, Doug Waite, Jack Gaudette and Harrison Bates wheeled four grocery cart loads of food purchased from Miller’s Independent grocery store in Aylmer to East Elgin Community Assistance Program’s Corner Cupboard food bank next door on Saturday…

This winter has been the best in 20 years for local snowmobilers, Poplar Ridge Riders Snowmobile Club President Martin Baelde said Saturday, Feb. 18… but it almost didn’t happen. Coming into this winter, the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs had expected to have to cut 20 percent of its 30,000 kilometres of groomed trails across…