Central Elgin volunteer fire fighters pulled an all-nighter to battle a hay barn fire on Southdale Line just a few hundred metres outside the city limits of St. Thomas, Ont.
For the better part of seven years, crews have been plowing internet cables into rural side roads that it would not have been possible to reach without government subsidies. On Friday, there was an announcement by the South Western Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) Group to bring high-speed internet to an additional 1,570 rural homes.
It was a clean sweep in the municipality of Central Elgin. Voters in the region, which includes Port Stanley, Belmont, Lynhurst and rural Elgin County, went to the polls looking for change, and they showed it by electing a completely new council.