Joanne Shuttleworth

ELORA – Growth and parking dominated discussion at the Mayor’s Town Hall on Sept. 20, held at the new MacDonald pavilion outside the Elora Centre for the Arts

ELORA – Sensational Elora is getting with the times, updating its strategic plan, and acknowledging the diverse community that Centre Wellington has become. And along those lines, it is encouraging soups from all countries and cultures at its popular Sensational Soup-off event.

GUELPH — The Marian Brennan Enabling Garden, cared for by the Guelph Township Horticultural Society, is in full bloom.

ABOYNE – The kick-off for the Aboyne Rural Hospice on Sept. 15 got off to a monumental start with a $500,000 donation from the Rotary Club of Fergus-Elora.

FERGUS – With plans for a 32-unit stacked townhouse development in Fergus well underway, Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington is seeking volunteers to help with the build.

SALEM – Bystanders helped the driver of a propane truck that caught fire in Salem, averting what could have been a disaster.

FERGUS – The new community garden beside the Centre Wellington Community Sportsplex celebrated the end of its first season on Sunday – cause for celebration, reflection, and quite a bit of food.

MARDEN – Opening the time capsule outside the Marden library on the weekend invoked a little time travel itself.

ELORA – Township staff will put on “pause” a plan to rebuild the stairs that lead from Victoria Park to the Elora Gorge in the hope a community partner will come forward or a grant can be obtained to help cover some of the cost overrun.

FERGUS – A plaque honouring Richard Pierpoint will be erected at the Pierpoint Fly Fishing Nature Reserve in early October. Pierpoint is recognized as the first Black settler in Centre Wellington.

PUSLINCH – In passing a Road Management Plan, council has given staff a road map on how to prioritize maintenance and repairs of township roads, how to include road work in annual budgets, and how to respond to concerns or requests from the public on the township’s road network.

GUELPH – Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health, along with other community partners, has taken a deep dive into the data to see the secondary impacts of COVID-19 on children and youth – and it doesn't look good.

GUELPH – Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health (WDGPH) will soon begin its fall "FluVID" campaign, offering residents the opportunity to get both a flu shot and a COVID-19 shot at the same time.

ABOYNE – With the donation of land by Wellington County for a hospice facility here, organizers are going full-steam ahead to see the facility built as soon as possible. And they are organizing a community kick-off event on Sept. 15 at the Wellington County Museum and Archives to introduce the plan

ELORA – Whether it was a match made in heaven remains to be seen, but doctors certainly approved the match between Emma Smith and Ben Doerksen. Smith got the all clear to donate her kidney to Doerksen late last year..