FERGUS – If the displays that drew the biggest crowds at the township open house are any indication, Centre Wellington residents are most concerned about the Fergus South Secondary Plan and the population growth that will bring.
Council approves monitoring systems purchase as it searches for new water sources
ELORA – In its hunt for new water sources to serve a growing community, the Township of Centre Wellington is exploring four new potential well sites. At the May 15 council meeting, staff asked council to approve the purchase of four water monitoring systems at a cost of $113,000.
Is the pandemic over? Yes and no, says Mercer
WELLINGTON COUNTY – The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 “global health emergency” over on May 5. Does that mean the pandemic is over?
Fergus businesses evacuated, highway closed for gas leak
FERGUS – A portion of Highway 6 (St. David Street North) in Fergus was closed and a number of businesses evacuated on Sunday due to a gas leak.
Road projects get more expensive with rising cost of asphalt
ELORA – The rising cost of asphalt is impacting Centre Wellington’s road repair budget.
Health coalition names voting stations for health care referendum
WELLINGTON COUNTY – The Guelph and District Health Coalition has arranged a number of voting stations as it plans, along with the Ontario Health Coalition, to hold a referendum on the state of Ontario’s health care system.
Puslinch awards contract for two park projects; community group wants to halt one
PUSLINCH – Council is determined to proceed with installing a new playground at Boreham Park, even as a community group hopes to pause the project so the township can first deal with infrastructure at the site.
Group holding events in Guelph for Sexual Assault Awareness Month
GUELPH – May is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the newly formed Recovery Speaking Initiative is holding a week’s worth of activities May 17 to 20.
Do you want Ontario’s hospitals to be privatized?
GUELPH – Do you want Ontario’s hospitals and health clinics to be privatized? The Guelph and District Health Coalition wants to know and is holding a referendum on May 26 and 27.
CMHA used $110,400 grant to train staff on suicide prevention, compassion fatigue
GUELPH – The Canadian Mental Health Association of Waterloo Wellington (CMHAWW) has used $110,400 in funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to train its staff and volunteers for the realities of today.
OPINION: Getting my groove back
When I fell into gardening I fell hard – like the first time I saw my children after they were born, or when I picked up my puppy and brought her home.
Star-studded Empowerment Day aims to motivate, inspire students
GUELPH – Thousands of students and educators with the Upper Grand District School Board (UGDSB) flocked to the Sleeman Centre on May 4 for a day of uplifting stories, positive thinking, and the overwhelming message that there is no wrong time to do good in the world.
Public health takes action after food poisoning incident at International Women’s Day event
GUELPH – The local board of health heard the story of an International Women’s Day event that went wrong, and a collaboration between public health inspectors and the host that went right at a meeting on May 3.
Parent asks board to get off fossil fuels, build new school with heat pump technology
GUELPH – Sam Stevenson hopes the Upper Grand District School Board will consider using electric heat pump heating when it builds a new high school in the south end of Guelph.
CWDHS returns to hosting Relay for Life; hopes to raise $45,000 for cancer society
FERGUS – Students at Centre Wellington District High School (CWDHS) are gearing up for their first Relay for Life since 2017 and the first student-run event of any kind since the pandemic hit three years ago. And they are pumped.