Joanne Shuttleworth

ELORA – Test drilling in 2021 indicated the township’s F5 well can go deeper, so council voted at the committee of the whole meeting on March 21 to award a $120,480 contract to Lotowater Technical Services Inc. to do the work before peak water season in July.

ELORA - Four Elora youth, plus a few special guests, are putting on a benefit concert at the Elora Legion Saturday evening.

PUSLINCH – The Puslinch fire department responded to a 911 call from a car on Highway 401 on Sunday afternoon and arrived to find the car fully in flames.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – Easter is just around the corner and organizers in Fergus and Elora hope kids will come out for two separate Easter egg hunt events.

GUELPH – Guelph United FC is hosting a fundraiser in honour of its former goalkeeper Svyatik Artemenko, who has returned to Odessa, Ukraine to fight with the Ukrainian military against the Russian invasion.

FERGUS – Walter O'Rourke, along with his partners at Nova Oculus Canada Manufacturing, have developed a treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) that might just revolutionize the way this common affliction is treated.

BELWOOD – It’s almost time to put out the "Gone fishing" sign. The Belwood Lions Club is planning its annual Pike Derby in May and the time to register is now.

FINLAND – Malin Ahlbeck was on vacation in Egypt when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began and counts herself lucky that she hasn’t seen the war close up.

ELORA – Don Kogen and Kristy Hillis have a $30-million plan for downtown Elora and it involves retaining and restoring heritage buildings and features.

GUELPH – The enemy of a robust public health care system is privatization and the time to do something about it is during the provincial election. That was the overriding sentiment of a panel of speakers in the Informed Democracy series.

GUELPH – 2022 is feeling a lot like the Second World War for Cecilia Meiering. Born in 1938 in Ukraine, she saw what happened when Germany invaded Ukraine in 1941, and then when the Soviets took over control of Ukraine in 1944.

FERGUS – A community builder, a smart businessman, a second dad to many, and a true friend, Jim Dixon died on Feb. 28 of an apparent heart attack. He was 77. The funeral will be held March 9 at 1pm at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church with a reception to follow at the Fergus Legion.

FERGUS – It’s International Women’s Day on March 8 and to mark the day, The Grove youth hub is highlighting four young women and their contributions to the local community.

ELORA – Katie Cher was astonished that so many people attended the fundraiser for Ukraine she and some friends held at the Elora Café on March 5, and that the fundraiser raised $21,000 for the Canadian Red Cross’ Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – If horn honking means freedom, participants in the "Freedom Convoy" that rolled through Fergus and Elora on Saturday afternoon certainly exercised theirs.