Elgin St. Thomas Public Health board members at their December meeting unanimously approved without discussion a budget calling for a three-percent increase for 2014. That brings total planned spending to $6.375-million, up by $185,726, with the province paying $4,781,667 of that cost. That leaves $940,395 to be covered by Elgin County and $653,494 by the City of St. Thomas. …
Aylmer Minor Hockey Tykes goalie Mathew Worrall smothered a shot by Belmont Minor Hockey Tykes player Lexie Bertelsen during a game at East Elgin Community Complex, Sunday, Dec. 5. Host Aylmer ended up on top at the end of the game, 6-4.
Kelsi Sheils of host BAD (Belmont-Aylmer-Dorchester) Girls Bantam C hockey team rushed the puck down the ice at East Elgin Community Complex during a game against Kent County, Saturday, Dec. 4. Brooke Weller and Katie Wilson each scored for the BAD Girls as the two teams fought to a 2-2 tie.
Laurey Dunford, 2, of Lyons bounced down a slide on an inflatable amusement at East Elgin Community Complex during an annual Family New Year’s Eve celebration, Tuesday, Dec. 31. Hundreds of children and adults participated in a variety of games and activities, including skating, in a party jointly hosted by Aylmer and Malahide.
A vandal with an ideological bent might have started a graffiti campaign in Aylmer. Earlier in December, someone spray-painted a message, quoting a biblical verse, on the Masonic Hall on South Street West. And over Christmas, the target was the John Street North bridge, and the message was “Fluoride kills, stop it, Dr. Paul Connett.” He’s the leader of a…
Malahide, like Central Elgin, seems to be too wealthy these days to qualify for a provincial infrastructure grant. Malahide councillors, who had earlier learned informally the township had been turned down for grants to help preserve Dexter Line west of Port Bruce from Lake Erie erosion as well as an adjacent water supply pipeline, got official notification in a letter…
In a meeting unprecedented in decades of Malahide council, neighbours turned out in droves to support, rather than oppose, a request for a car painting and body shop in mostly residential Kingsmill. Barry and Kristina Millard have a mobile car painting business, and want a permanent base for it. The only one out of a room full of supporters to oppose…
Elgin County councillors want to ensure no more railway lines are ripped out of the ground here. They recently discussed that threat, given that Trillium Railway, a short line serving East Elgin as well as Tillsonburg and Delhi, went up for sale Dec. 20. If no buyer can be found, in six months the company’s tracks could be ripped up…
Elgin County councillors on Dec. 12 approved a recommendation from Medavie, the new contractor for ambulance services here starting Dec. 29, to keep a “first-response vehicle” full-time in Bayham, even if it’s only used from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. That would save about an hour a day of travel from and to the ambulance base just east of…
Former MPP Peter North wants to sever three building lots from a property northeast of the intersection of Independent and St. George streets in the Lyndhurst subdivision of Central Elgin. While two neighbours appeared before Central Elgin council last week to oppose a proposed official plan amendment and rezoning to allow that, the dispute didn’t seem particularly acrimonious. One, Peter…