St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital President Karen Davies, in a recent annual report to Elgin County council members, stressed the need for a bigger new hospital to serve the area. She started, though, by listing some of the hospitals highlights for 2025, including: STEGH’s “systemic therapy program” (chemotherapy for cancer) had been expanded to five days a week, and was…
Syed Hasan, the proprietor at Moe’s Variety on Talbot Street in St. Thomas, is determined to travel to all the countries in the world. He has visited 189 countries already and is actively planning trips to the final eight on his personal list, including North Korea, Venezuela, Sudan, Nauru, Mali and The Republic of the Niger, Chad, and The Central…
Kettle Creek Conservation Authority has issued a Watershed Conditions Statement—Flood Outlook and a Lake Erie Shoreline Conditions Statement—Flood Outlook, reminding residents to take extra caution near creeks and streams due to a significant rainfall forecast and the potential for flooding in low-lying areas. Environment Canada is tracking an unstable low-pressure system that is developing south of the border and making…
Richard and Karen Auckland of St. Thomas Christmas Care, left, Laura Bos of Victorian Order of Nurses Student Nutrition Program and Penny Hilliker and Marcie Tenk of East Elgin Community Assistance Program’s Christmas Care program received on behalf of each organization a $25,959 donation, for a total of $77,878, from Co-Presidents Bryan White and Jason White and the employees of…
Carly Holmes of host East Elgin Secondary School’s girls hockey team aimed the puck at the Woodstock Huron Park net during a game at East Elgin Community Complex on Thursday, Dec. 18. EESS handily won the game, 6-2. (AE/Rob Perry)
Grayson Bertelsen of host East Elgin Secondary School’s boys hockey team maneuvered with the puck during a game against Woodstock Huron Park at East Elgin Community Complex on Thursday, Dec. 18. Huron Park took the win, 3-1. (AE/Rob Perry)
St. Thomas firefighters sought to extinguish a fire a building in the 500 block of Talbot Street, Thursday morning, Dec. 18. Streets are currently closed in the area. The fire is in the same building as the Lucky Kitchen Restaurant, adjacent to Yurek Pharmacy. More details in the Dec. 24 edition of The Aylmer Express. (AE/contributed by Brian Wilsdon)
Santa Claus made his last visit to the area until Christmas at a parade in Straffordville on Saturday morning, Dec. 13. Here, Christina Funk, left, Aliyah Krahn, Amanda Giesbrecht and Marlaena Giesbrecht joined fellow members on the Straffordville Evangelical Mission Church “Come Grow With Us” float. More pictures in the Dec. 17 edition of The Aylmer Express. (AE/Rob Perry)
Leah Hearns, left, on a rocking horse handmade by Mark Minor of Aylmer and fellow volunteers Nancy Silverthorn, Linda Stewart, Lauren Silverthorn and Alice Schram sorted through donated toys, games and other Christmas gifts given to the Aylmer Optimist Club Toy Drive. They are to be distributed to 486 children in need in Aylmer, Malahide and parts of Bayham on…
Malahide Mayor Dominique Giguère, in her inaugural speech as Warden of Elgin on Tuesday, Dec. 9, doubled down on her insistence that councillors wear “only one hat” while there, ignoring what was best for their own communities in favour of what was best for the county. She was the only candidate to stand for the office of head of county…