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, and continuing through to May…
Aylmer Mayor Jack Couckuyt, at an Elgin council meeting Tuesday, April 14, couldn’t find a seconder for a motion calling on the Ontario government to declare a “food insecurity emergency” and for the federal and provincial governments to introduce a “Guaranteed Livable Basic Income” for those living in poverty. County councillors had received a request for support for such a…
Aylmer’s Len Adams was a rare masculine figure in a sea of women at the April 10 Quilts in Bloom Show hosted by the Shedden Agricultural Society at the Southwold Keystone Complex recently. Mr. Adams has combined his background in information technology with an understanding of woodworking to establish a satisfying business in retirement as a surface quilting artist. Surface…
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 according to the CIA World…
Malahide Councillor Rick Cerna, apologizing along the way to what he considered an excellent township staff, still couldn’t contain himself when he learned of new incentives being proposed to help with the recruitment and retention of municipal employees there. But Deputy Mayor Mark Widner, at that council meeting Thursday, April 2, supported the changes, observing that the township’s search for…
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 April 1 edition of The…
Over 200 Shedden and area residents attended a special Southwold council session on Monday, March 30, to protest a rezoning to allow development of up to 161 residential units on a 10-acre property at 9210 Union Road …but as Mayor Grant Jones admitted candidly, it was too late. Residents, some of whom threatened to toss out the existing council members…
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. Our boys have been battling…
After losing about $85,000 to identity theft in 2025, pensioners Joe and Sadie Smith, of St. Thomas, are nearly broke and struggling to keep their home. “I am so embarrassed,” said Mr. Smith, his voice cracking with emotion as he described the dreadful experience at a fraud prevention session hosted by Elgin-St. Thomas-London South MP Andrew Lawton. “I just fell apart.…
Post Stanley Terminal Rail hopes to be back in business in May. The popular tourist attraction cancelled all operations effective Dec. 12, 2025 after the discovery of “serious erosion” under the south abutment of the historic railway bridge across Kettle Creek in Port Stanley. With about 25,000 riders a year now, PSTR has operated as a tourist attraction in Elgin…