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SWPH helps celebrate Environmental Public Health Week
It is Environmental Public Health Week across Canada, meant to recognize the important work undertaken by Certified Public Health Inspectors. Jessica Fiddy, a Public Health Inspector at Southwestern P...
Sep 22, 2020
TVDSB confirms first COVID-19 case
Although it's not directly in our own backyard, the Thames Valley District School Board has reported its first case of COVID-19 in one of their schools. H.B. Beal Secondary School is the first school ...
Sep 22, 2020
New tool will assist families screen for COVID-19 each day before school
The province has launched a new COVID-19 screening tool to help assist parents, students and staff with their daily assessment of symptoms. The Ontario government says the voluntary interactive screen...
Sep 22, 2020
Two men sent to hospital with serious injuries following separate ATV collisions Sunday
The Elgin County OPP were called to two separate ATV collisions on Sunday that both resulted in serious injuries. The OPP report that the first collision occurred at approximately 11:15 a.m. on a trai...
Sep 21, 2020
Male drives towards officer during traffic stop on Friday
A St. Thomas Police officer escaped injury Friday afternoon during a traffic stop in the city's north end. Around 5 p.m., a vehicle was stopped and as the officer approached, the male drove toward the...
Sep 21, 2020
Search to continue Monday for missing Dutton sailor
Elgin OPP and the OPP Underwater Search and Recovery Unit are continuing to search for a Dutton man reported overdue around 11 a.m. Friday after departing Port Glasgow in his sailboat Thursday afterno...
Sep 20, 2020
COVID-19: Number of confirmed cases holding steady
While provincial case numbers are trending upward, Southwestern Public Health has not reported a new, confirmed COVID-19 case across its coverage area in the past four days. There remain 10 ongoing ca...
Sep 20, 2020
Elgin OPP search for missing boater
Elgin OPP in partnership with the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre, Canadian Coast Guard and Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary continue their search today (Saturday) for a missing boater from the Port Gl...
Sep 19, 2020
Gathering limits reduced across the province effective immediately
Warning the alarm bells are ringing, Premier Doug Ford this morning (Saturday) announced reduced limits effective immediately on the number of people permitted to attend unmonitored and private social...
Sep 19, 2020
St. Thomas Police introduce online reporting for sexual assaults
The St. Thomas Police Service is introducing an online reporting service for sexual assault investigations. It's in response to many victims who are hesitant to report these incidents to family, frien...
Sep 18, 2020
