Audrey Froese of host Straffordville Public School aimed for the Davenport Public School hoop during Junior Girls basketball action, Wednesday, April 9. Straffordville also played South Dorchester Public School the same day.
Zachary Copeland of South Dorchester Public School got tangled up with a Davenport Public School defender during a Junior Boys basketball game, Tuesday, April 8. SDPS also took on host Straffordville in a game. The elementary school league is aimed at developing skills and encouraging youths to have fun playing sports.
Amanda Helka joined fellow 15 to 18 year old students dancing to “You Got Me Good” in a jazz number at the annual Tammy’s Dance Studio recital at Immanuel Christian School, Saturday, April 5. The event showcased the work of 92 students from 2 to 25 years old.
Nato Dube sped around a turn as the “On the Edge” speed skating program at East Elgin Community Complex wrapped up its season with races and awards, Thursday, April 3. This year 22 skaters signed up for the 12 weeks of lessons and races. This was the eighth year speed skating has been offered at the complex.
Malahide councillors Thursday, April 3, voted unanimously to ask their Aylmer counterparts to delay awarding a tender for construction of a new downtown library until the possibility of putting it in East Elgin Community Complex could be explored. Councillor Mark Widner introduced a surprise motion to that affect at the end of the Malahide meeting. The recent consultant’s operational review…
Elgin St. Thomas Public Health officials worry that allowing the sale of locally-produced wines at farm markets could mean increased alcohol consumption. But health board members, particularly St. Thomas Alderman Mark Cosens, want to open up new markets to small wineries that have effectively been blocked out of Liquor Control Board of Ontario stores. He was backed at a health…
Malahide Councillor Mike Wolfe will run for deputy mayor in the October municipal election. He told the Express his primary focus was “keeping costs under control,” both at East Elgin Community Complex and throughout the township’s own departments. Incumbent Deputy Mayor Jim Jenkins has already filed his nomination papers, seeking re-election.
The Farm Edition of The Aylmer Express has won the best agricultural section award for newspapers under 10,000 circulation in the Canadian Community Newspapers Association’s Better Newspapers competition for 2013. In other awards, an Aug. 27 story by reporter Craig Bradford about how an essay contest to win a house in Malahide was falling short of entries as it neared…
Davenport Public School Grade 7 pupil Brennen Siemens applied a half-nelson hold to an opponent during a wrestling meeting for five elementary schools at East Elgin Secondary School, Friday, March 28. The event was organized by London Western Wrestling Club in collaboration with Davenport and EESS.
Belmont Minor Hockey’s Peewee Rep team defeated host Mariposa 5-1 on Saturday, March 29, to win the Ontario Minor Hockey Association C championship for this season. Belmont lost the first away game of the playoff series, and tied the second before taking a pair of home games last weekend.