The host of Still Standing revealed a special surprise to St. Thomas residents during his comedy routine

Jonny Harris sure had some ‘splainin’ to do following his visit last September to St. Thomas.

Profiling the community for CBC’s Still Standing television program, he visited Malachi Male’s Saint T shop and came away with an image of Jumbo shaved into the back of his head.

“I had to explain that elephant many, many times,” says the host of the long-running program that celebrates community resilience during an interview from Toronto, where the Newfoundland native now lives.

“It was still there like three haircuts later, kind of . . . and I had to remind myself because it was on the back of my head, I kept forgetting it was there.

“I would leave the pharmacy wondering ‘Why would they give me a weird look in there?’”.

He revealed the ‘do during a wrap-up comedy routine at the Joe Thornton Community Centre that drew the largest crowd ever – some 1,400 people – to the show’s signature event.

And, later, he showed his haircut in an interview with Tom Power for CBC’s Q about Still Standing. (The interview is on YouTube.)

Still Standing debuted its 11th season on Tuesday this week on CBC-TV and CBC Gem with a visit to Osoyoos, B.C., one of eight communities across the country to be profiled in coming weeks. The season wraps March 17 with St. Thomas.

You know, isn’t that just how things always go? One moment, the world’s yer oyster. The next, in comes a red tide.

The Elgin County Railway Museum’s sudden closure this week for unspecified issues with its historic Wellington Street railway shops building comes just days after it had announced the huge success of its third annual Community Christmas Tree Spectacular in November and December.

Featuring more than 300 Christmas trees decorated by community partners that filled the museum’s exhibition hall with sparkle and delight, the six-week event attracted more than 27,000 visitors, the museum says on its social media. That’s almost double the 15,000 who attended the previous year.

And visits with Santa, who took up residence this year at the museum in his house moved from London’s Covent Garden Market, regularly sold out.

“The third annual Community Christmas Tree Spectacular has come to a close, and we are beyond grateful to everyone who visited and supported the Elgin County Railway Museum,” museum officials posted.

“With over 27,000 visitors, this event showed just how much our community cares. Admission by donation helped support our museum and its ongoing preservation ensuring this historic space can continue to be enjoyed for years to come!”

The museum says the building issues posed no threat to public safety. The museum hopes to update in the spring.

Meanwhile, quoting an unnamed source, the Aylmer Express is reporting this week the Port Stanley Terminal Rail was forced to cancel its Santa Claus tourist train rides last month because of worries of........

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