Youngsters held up their hands in response to a musical question by Brian May of Studio Arts in St. Thomas during a party at Malahide Community Place to close the Springfield library’s Summer Reading Club on Thursday, Aug. 20. They were also treated to hot dogs and ice cream.
A group of bicyclists crept up a steep slope on Pleasant Valley Line as they neared the end of a 160-kilometre route for the fifth annual 3 Port Classic Century Ride sponsored by The Aylmer Express on Saturday, Aug. 15. This year’s ride involved 450 bicyclists, the most ever.
Norah Bradley, 5, of Aylmer slid down an inflatable amusement at the annual Aylmer Sweet Corn Fest in Balmoral Park, Saturday, Aug. 15. Weather for the event was clear and sunny.
Kayla Berdan of Orwell rode Hick Got a Gun over a simulated bridge during the trail class competition at a show organized by Rusty Gaits Saddle Club at Aylmer Fairgrounds, Sunday, Aug. 16. The club will hold its final show of the season on Sunday, Sept. 20.
Both Malahide and Bayham councils, in separate meetings, voted Thursday, Aug. 6, to welcome additional windmills to the Erie Shores Wind Farm. Capstone Power Development plans to add 20 to 30 new wind turbines to the existing 66 in the area. Malahide councillors ignored dire warnings from resident Hank Wortelboer and two anti-wind power activists from the Niagara region who…
Megan Sleegers, 9, left, Ainsley Macrae, 7, and Jenna Sleegers, 11, made fruit kabobs during a TD Summer Reading Club session at Springfield library, Thursday morning, Aug. 13. A closing party for the club with a barbecue, music and prize draws will be held at Malahide Community Place in Springfield on Thursday, Aug. 20, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Sydney Rossi of host Belmont Minor Soccer’s Westminster Mutual Under 18 girls soccer team threw in the ball from the sidelines during a game against Strathroy Strikers on Sunday, Aug. 9. Belmont won the game 7-2 to end its West London Soccer regular season with a perfect record of 10 wins and no defeats. Goals were scored by Kendra Horlick and Tori…
Madyson Bakker of Springfield Brewers Navy 4-Pitch team checked where the ball was as she ran toward home plate during a game against Gold on Tuesday, Aug. 4, at Malahide Community Place in Springfield. The league’s 4-Pitch teams will wrap up their season with a celebration Tuesday night, Aug. 11.
Scott Maudsley, left, and Jeff Culbert, playing bachelor farmers, rehearse a scene from “The Drawer Boy,” the new play opening at Port Stanley Festival Theatre Wednesday, Aug. 5, and continuing through to Saturday, Aug. 22. A young actor comes to stay with the two men to research a role, but long-held secrets emerge as they interact. The play is directed by…
Aylmer Fair has a new Junior Board of Directors (JBOD) that’s helping out this year, assisting with running the show, organizing impromptu concerts by local musicians throughout the fair and preparing their own car for Saturday’s demolition derby. They are, front, Jack Gaudette; back, from left: Jenna Gilbert, Joseph Gaudette, Monique Froese, Josh Gaudette and Brent Quiring. Absent are Jeremy…