POLICE BODY CAMS PAGE
5
LOCAL MP ON FEDERAL BUDGET PAGE
Tillsonburg POST
DECEMBER 11, 2025
8 FREE
VOLUME 2 • ISSUE 13
Find our weekly flyer at
cowardpharmacy.ca 519-842-4081
PHARMACY
165 Broadway, Tillsonburg
Part of Tillsonburg’s Independent Spirit Since 1874
STORE HOURS: MONDAY TO FRIDAY 9AM TO 9PM SATURDAY 9AM TO 5:30PM SUNDAY 12PM TO 4PM
TILLSONBURG
THOUSANDS OF GIFT IDEAS ON SALE!
EXTENDED HOURS: OPEN TO 8:00PM SATURDAY NIGHTS NOW TO DECEMBER 20TH
Hospital Angels of Giving campaign underway JEFF HELSDON Editor
As the 100th anniversary year winds down for Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital, there is still a push on for the hospital foundation to meet its goal for the 100 for 100 Club as well as the Angels of Giving Campaign. Angels of Giving is not a new campaign for TDMH Foundation as it’s been going more than 20 years. This year-end campaign allows hospital patrons to donate in memory of a loved one. The name of the memorialized person is then put on an angel decoration on the Christmas tree in the hospital. For this year, there is the added bonus of any new donation of $100 or more will become part of the permanent 100 for $100 recognition materials. “This is only this year in honour of the 100th anniversary,” said Gerry Dearing, foundation executive director. The work of the foundation is important as it is funds highest-priority equipment purchases for the hospital. Although provincial funding is provided to hospitals, it is for operating costs and staffing and not equipment. Every year, the foundation identifies items it will fund in the hospital. This year’s big item is the start of a multiyear bed replacement campaign. With each patient bed costing $17,000 and beds for the intensive care unit coming in at $55,000, this is a huge commitment. Also on this year’s list of target items is vital sign towers, which are the tools placed next to beds with equipment to monitor blood pressure, temperature and other vital signs. A gastroscope rounds out the wish list for 2025.
FESTIVE RIDE PROGRAM UNDERWAY
(JEFF HELSDON PHOTO)
As part of its Festive RIDE program, Oxford OPP recently conducted a RIDE program on North Street West in Tillsonburg. Festive RIDE will continue until Jan. 1 with the goal of taking impaired drivers off the roads this holiday season. Story on page 8.
Changes are being proposed for conservation authorities JEFF HELSDON
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Long Point Region Conservation Authority (LPRCA) board is opposing major changes to Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities. At its Dec. 3 board meeting, authority directors – who represent the communities within the watershed – passed a resolution stating they do not support the proposed amalgamation that would
CONTINUED TO PAGE 2
fold LPRCA in with the Essex Region CA, Lower Thames Valley CA, St. Clair Region CA, Upper Thames River CA, Kettle Creek CA, Catfish Creek CA, and Grand River CA. The new entity would encompass a huge swath of Southwestern Ontario, stretching from Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River in the west, down the Lake Erie shoreline to past Dunnville. The proposal seeks to change the boundaries of the existing conservation authorities, currently based on watersheds, to just seven.
Merry Christmas A N D H A P P Y N E W Y E A R !
CONTINUED TO PAGE 2
TO M SA G E T E RR Y W I L L AERT
B R O K E R
O F
R E CO R D
JA C QU E L IN E AY R E S SAL ES
REP.
T OM SA G E
SAL ES
RE P.
MARCEL VAN DE HOEF SAL ES
REP.
From all of us at T.L. Willaert Realty Ltd., Brokerage
ROB E RT A BB O TT BROKE R
KASSANDRA WA Y SALE S
RE P.
DAV E CH ROM CZA K SALE S
RE P.
W IL LA ERT REA LT Y. CO M