Southwestern Ontario Public Health announced Friday, Aug. 20, that as of Friday, Sept. 10, its mass-vaccination clinic at Memorial Arena in St. Thomas will close its doors. COVID-19 vaccinations will move to the health unit’s St. Thomas headquarters at 1230 Talbot Street, at the eastern edge of the city, and continue on a scaled-down basis. Similarly, a mass-vaccination clinic in…
Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP Jeff Yurek announced on Wednesday, Aug. 11, that a proposed Highway 3 bypass route through the north end of Aylmer has been official revoked. Malahide and Central Elgin will also be affected, with land potentially freed for development that had been frozen by the bypass route since 1970. The removal of the route has been sought by the…
Southwestern Public Health is continuing to schedule smaller, “pop-up” COVID-19 vaccination clinics in an attempt to reach residents in more rural areas of Elgin and Oxford. In Elgin, one will be held at Clovermead Adventure Farm, in Malahide just north of Aylmer, on Tuesday, August 17, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (In an earlier posting, the clinic was posted…
by Rob Perry of The Aylmer Express A group of Vienna and area residents have banded together to fight the possible sale of the Vienna Community Centre, which Bayham has declared surplus to its needs but has also decided to make $70,000 in upgrades to the facility. That includes a recent decision by Bayham council to replace the existing geothermal…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting nine new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Wednesday, Aug. 4, part of an upward trend locally. Over the Civic Holiday weekend, 13 new cases had been confirmed, an average of just over three a day. The number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit has risen to…
Malahide Fire Service, Aylmer Fire Service, Elgin St. Thomas paramedics, an Ornge air ambulance and Ontario Provincial Police joined forces to rescue a Malahide farmer in his 60s who became trapped to his waist in a corn silo on College Line in Malahide on Saturday, July 31, at about 3 p.m. Ontario Provincial Police Constable Patti Cotes said the farmer…
Southwestern Public Health has announced a “pop-up” COVID-19 vaccination clinic to be held in cooperation with East Elgin Family Health Team at East Elgin Community Complex in Aylmer on Thursday, Aug. 5, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Anyone 12 and older is welcome to come for a first or second dose of vaccine, either by appointment or simply by…
During the week ending Sunday, July 25, only seven new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Elgin, Middlesex and London, Southwestern Public Health revealed in weekly “surveillance report” released on Monday, July 26. That compares to 21 new cases the week before that. To date, 78.2 percent of the population of the region 12 and older had received at least…
Brandon Bastien, 10, of St. Thomas, left, and his grandfather Steve Posthumus of Aylmer, “magnet fishing” for ferrous metals in Catfish Creek at the Port Bruce pier, pulled this dummy mortar round out of the water on Sunday, July 25. While it doesn’t have an explosive warhead, it still had an undischarged rocket charge at its base. It’s been taken…
Southwestern Public Health is holding a “pop-up” COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the fire station in Port Burwell on Tuesday, July 27, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The health unit stresses that walk-in patients are welcome. Those who prefer to book an appointment can do so at https://bit.ly/3ixaPrC or by telephoning 1-800-922-0096, extension 9.