Vegetation such as shrubs and grasses represents such a clear and present danger that Central Elgin is going to start mowing roadsides from fencerow to fencerow. Councillors voted 5-1 on Monday, April 20, to approve a new policy to cut vegetation the full width of every municipal and county road within Central Elgin, half to be done one year and…
Bayham councillors are going to split up and meet with service clubs and other organizations that use municipal buildings such as community centres, before holding a special public hearing on the future of those facilities Monday, May 11, at 7 p.m. Bayham recently conducted a review of all its buildings and found many of them wanting. The Bayham Community Centre in…
Chief Andre Reymer used some diplomatic language in telling Aylmer Police Services Board Tuesday, April 12, that town Councillor Ted McDonald was way off base in recent financial criticism of the cost of municipal policing. Cr. McDonald, claiming that Aylmer’s policing costs were among the top one percent in the province, tried to get town council on Tuesday, April 7,…
Ryan VanRoestel of East Elgin Secondary School kicked the ball away from a Central Elgin Collegiate Institute player during the second game of a season-opening Thames Valley Southeast boys soccer doubleheader at City Wide Sports Fields in London, Monday, April 20. EESS won this game 3-1 and an earlier one against Glencoe District High School 4-0.
Marlize Rupple, left, and Liam Bacon simultaneously jumped over a pair of perpendicular ropes during an assembly at New Sarum Public School on Thursday, April 16. They were encouraging fellow pupils to raise money for Jump Rope for Heart, to benefit the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
Melinda Cockburn, left, of St. Thomas introduces Penny, the husky-akida dog she’s fostering on behalf of All Breed Canine Rescue, to Whitney Giesbrecht of Aylmer and her daughter Dezamae, 15 months old, and Melissa Hoover of Aylmer at Pet Valu in Aylmer, Friday, April 17. Penny was brought to the area from Northern Ontario after it became ill, and was…
Immanuel Christian School pupils Holly Cameron, left, Megan Friesen and Jocelyn Shelton pondered possible answers to a question during “Battle of the Books” on Thursday, April 16. The Aylmer school hosted six other district Christian schools for the competition. Teams were given 10 books to read in October, to prepare them to answer questions about each during the battle. This…
Susan Lampman was one of 26 volunteer models for the annual Vienna Lioness fashion show at the village community centre on Wednesday, April 15. The event, decorated in Parisian style, attracted 154, and raised $1,000 each for Corner Cupboard food bank in Aylmer and the Salvation Army of Tillsonburg.
YWCA Kids Creative Cuisine instructor Petrusia Hontar, left, supervised Brianna Syrnyk, 10, as she chopped vegetables to serve with hummus during a cooking lesson in the kitchen at Springfield Community Place, Tuesday, April 14. They also made chocolate avocado banana pudding and English muffin “mini-pizzas” in the first night of a six-week course organized through Springfield library.
Malahide councillors on Thursday, April 9, rejected a request to equip volunteer firefighters with potentially lifesaving “EpiPens” that administer medication in case of a severe allergic reaction. Lyons Line resident Elizabeth Van Hooren has started a campaign to seek such equipment for area firefighters, after her own son almost died from an allergy that had not previously been diagnosed. That meant…