Jennifer Fulton, left, and her daughter Samantha, 10, had some muffins and other morning-themed food and read a book together during Port Burwell Public School’s monthly Breakfast with Books event on Friday, Feb. 13. Up to 75 parents, grandparents or adult guardians and pupils attend the event that is helped staged with a Parents Reaching Out Grant from the provincial…
A two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Hacienda Road and Glencolin Line northeast of Aylmer blocked traffic in the area shortly before 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12. While it did not appear anyone was seriously hurt, an ambulance arrived on scene shortly after this photo was taken. The roads in the area at the time were mostly snow covered…
Malahide councillors are considering raising the annual rent for a concession booth at Malahide Community Place in Springfield from $1,500 to $10,500 over two to three years. At a budget committee meeting Monday, Feb. 9, Finance Director Suzanna Dieleman said she’d studied the booth rent after a taxpayer raised it at a session a week earlier. But Mayor David Mennill…
Aylmer’s IGPC ethanol plant will receive an interest-free $3.7-million loan from the federal government, part of a $10-million technology investment that will increase the facility’s production by 10 percent. The announcement was made Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 10 by federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz at the Integrated Grain Processors Cooperative (IGPC) ethanol plant in Aylmer. The federal government loan, from Agriculture…
Malahide councillors at a meeting Thursday, Feb. 5, rescinded an October resolution to replace Lyons sidewalks this year at an estimated cost of $32,000 paid from their 2015 budget. But instead of reducing the scope of or even eliminating the work, as had seemed councillors’ intent following a budget session Monday, Feb. 2, they’re now talking about following through on their…
Dozens of diners, both young and young at heart, helped support South Dorchester Public School by attending a spaghetti dinner sponsored by the local Lions Club at Belmont Community Centre on Friday night, Feb. 6. The Lions Club donated all of the proceeds of the dinner, which included Caesar salad, garlic bread and beverages, to the school located southeast of…
The new Elgin County Museum exhibit, The Avro Arrow: A Dream Denied, officially opened on Friday, Feb. 6 to a packed gallery. Those attending listened to Port Stanley’s Andrew Hibbert talk about his experiences trying to find the test models of the aircraft that are believed to be at the bottom of Lake Ontario off Point Petre (near Belleville). The travelling…
Malahide councillors, meeting as a budget committee Monday night, Feb. 2, appear ready to go back on a promise to Lyons residents to replace the sidewalks in their hamlet this year. Under pressure from Lyons residents, they made a $32,000 commitment in October, just before municipal elections, for replacements. But now, some councillors say that the removal of grass growing…
Jake Quiring of North Side Towing had a busy day on Monday, Feb. 2, following a winter storm that dumped over 20 centimetres of snow in the Aylmer area. Here he was seen shortly after noon digging out one of two mini-vans that had slid off of the road overnight along Talbot Line west of Penhale Road just west of…
Malahide Deputy Mayor Mike Wolfe has called for his township plus Aylmer and Bayham to form a committee to raise money through public donations for the $29-million replacement of Terrace Lodge long-term care home. He was at a county council meeting Tuesday, Jan. 27, where Elgin Administrator Mark McDonald had reported on similar campaigns for the rebuilding of the county’s two…