Joanne Shuttleworth

PUSLINCH – After organizing the Santa Claus Parade 28 times, the 29th time, on Nov. 24 at 2pm, will be a breeze for the Optimist Club of Puslinch.

ELORA – With construction on East Mill Street now completed, the Elora Lions are looking forward to  returning to the traditional route for the Santa Claus parade this year.

GUELPH – The board of health has approved the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health budget for 2025.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Community Living Guelph Wellington is facing a $3-million deficit in 2025 and will be closing two of its residential sites to rein in expenses. 

FERGUS – The new operations centre to be built in north Fergus is now estimated to ring in at $44 million, council heard on Nov. 5. That’s a steep climb from the original projection of $10 million in 2007 and a subsequent estimate of $27 million in 2021.

ABERFOYLE – BlueTriton Brands is closing in Ontario and expects to wind down operations by the end of January. That includes the water bottling site in Aberfoyle, which will go up for sale, a company spokesperson confirmed.

PUSLINCH – Council here wants to help the Puslinch Minor Soccer Club after fire on Oct. 23 destroyed a storage shed and all the equipment in it at the Badenoch soccer field.

FERGUS – Brendan McLeod did a little musical archeology and discovered songs sung by soldiers in the trenches at Vimy Ridge.

FERGUS – Most people familiar with local history will know that Beatty Brothers Limited was the largest manufacturer in the area and an economic driver in the early days of the Village of Fergus.

GUELPH – With an eviction deadline staring them in the face, unhoused people living in downtown Guelph’s St. George’s Square don’t know what they are going to do come Nov. 13.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – Watch out lead-foot drivers. Speed limits are about to be reduced in 28 road segments across the township.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – Despite requests from developers to put the brakes on the township’s urban boundary until analysis of the new Provincial Policy Statement (PPS) can be done and new population targets determined, council endorsed the new urban boundary recommended by staff.

ABERFOYLE – Puslinch council started slogging through the township’s proposed 2025 capital budget at its Oct. 23 meeting. The proposed capital budget for 2025 totals $6.6 million. Of that, $1.4 million is proposed to come from the tax levy and the balance from reserves or grants.

PUSLINCH – Firefighters responded to a grass fire call on Wellington Road 36 in Badenoch around 5am on Oct. 23 but arrived to find the township-owned storage shed had burned to the ground. The shed was used by Puslinch Minor Soccer and all its equipment was destroyed in the blaze.

ELORA – The technical became dramatic at the Oct. 28 meeting of Centre Wellington council, when discussion of councillor Bronwynne Wilton’s notice of motion came up on the agenda.