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Summer food drive needs final push to meet need on peninsula
People have answered Salvation Army Major Mary Millar’s recent food bank plea but more help is needed. “My food bank worker said when saw she the food, like she was in tears because she realized she could give to those families that extra food,” Millar said Thursday. She issued a Facebook callout on July 19 […]
West Nile Virus present in Elgin County: Health unit
A week after Middlesex-London Health Unit confirmed several mosquitoes had tested positive for West Nile Virus in the London area, a neighbouring health unit says a bloodsucker was confirmed to carry the illness. Southwestern Public Health â the health unit for Oxford and Elgin counties including St. Thomas and Woodstock â has traps set up […]
Huron County hospitals receive $3.8M from province
The Ontario government is investing $3,822,936 into local hospitals in Huron County to deliver faster and more connected care. This funding is part of the province’s investment of an additional $965 million through the 2024 Ontario Budget to help Ontario’s publicly funded hospitals meet the needs of the communities they serve, a press release from […]
Toronto man wanted in shooting at north London home
London police have identified a Toronto man wanted in a shooting last year at a home near University Hospital. Police found evidence of gunfire at a home on Corley Drive, southwest of Windermere and Western roads, on Oct. 28, 2023, around 4 a.m. Nobody was injured. Investigators obtained an arrest warrant for Tadas James Bickus, […]
Another reason to avoid ticks as new bacteria surfaces in London area
The Middlesex-London Health Unit is sounding the alarm after the discovery this month of the first tick in the London area with a bacteria that can cause severe illness in older people. The tick had Anaplasma phagocytophilum bacteria, the health unit said Wednesday. The bacteria that is usually spread by the blacklegged tick causes anaplasmosis. […]