Joanne Shuttleworth

FERGUS – Retain access to the pond and limit or don’t interface at all with a multi-use trail proposed to be constructed in the new North Fergus Business Park. That was the prevailing message from about 70 users of the Fergus Off-leash Dog Park at an open house hosted by the township.

PUSLINCH – Roads in Puslinch are rural roads designed for vehicular traffic and not pedestrians or cyclists.

As it happens, I’m re-reading Watership Down and that’s a lucky thing for the rabbits that think my vegetable garden is their all-you-can-eat buffet. 

ELORA – The Centre Wellington Black Committee has another party planned for the community. CW Fun Day is a free event slated for Sept. 3 at Bissell Park.

FERGUS – Preliminary numbers indicate some 23,000 people attended the Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games over the Aug. 11 to 13 weekend.

ELORA – The group that received funding to replace the multi-use pad in Elora’s Bissell Park has handed the project back to the township.

ELORA – Mike Duhacek is on another quest and this time he’s hoping everyone joins in.

FERGUS – Some 7,000 dwellings will be added to Fergus when the Fergus South secondary plan is realized, and Centre Wellington council sees opportunity to make the development beautiful, sustainable, with plenty of active transportation amenities for residents.

GUELPH - It’s the silent crime, often unnoticed, and it runs right through Guelph and Wellington County. And the Rotary Club of Guelph South wants everyone to be aware that human trafficking is here and girls, boys, men and women are being coerced into it.

ELORA – Matt and Jan Teeter are the opposite of NIMBY. Instead of saying “not in my backyard,” they are saying “come to my backyard,” as they are hosting two backyard concerts this summer.

FERGUS – Helene DeWitt has lived a life of abuse and fear, with a disability she didn’t understand – all of which left her feeling abandoned and unloved most of her life.

ELORA – Centre Wellington has initiated a study of five bridges in former Pilkington Township that are all within 20 kilometres of each other and closed to traffic – three of them for more than a decade.

ELORA – It's just a drop in the bucket, but the owners of 27-43 Mill St. W. in Elora will receive a $10,000 grant Community Improvement Plan grant from the township.

PUSLINCH – Mayor James Seeley is no longer employed as a City of Guelph firefighter. “It’s a personal and private situation I am not willing to discuss,” he stated. Seeley also confirmed that clerk Courtenay Hoytfox has been named acting CAO of Puslinch Township.