Community News

ALMA – The Alma Community Centre parking lot was overflowing with classic cars and trucks on Aug. 26 for a car show hosted by the Alma Optimist Club.

KENILWORTH – The chair of the Mount Forest Business Improvement Association (BIA) has taken the association’s grievances about the old tea room building, at 178 Main Street, to the township.

MOUNT FOREST – For the third time this summer, the emergency department at Louise Marshall Hospital here will temporarily close this weekend. The closure will take place between Sept. 9 at 5am and Sept. 10 at 7am.

FERGUS – Two young Wellington athletes represented Ontario last month in Canada's first National Lacross Champtionship for U13 girls

WELLINGTON NORTH – A.J. and Gordon Dunn planted sunflowers at the beginning of June at their home in Conestoga Estates in Wellington North.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – The Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) has identified blue-green algae in Belwood Lake.

KENILWORTH – Wellington North hopes to dip into a $4-billion federal Housing Accelerator Fund as the municipality considers how it will pay for growth.

ARTHUR – Four pets died but no people were injured in an apartment fire here on Thursday afternoon. The Smith Street building houses Erni's Place restaurant on the main floor and apartment buildings in the basement.

MOOREFIELD – Fourteen co-ed baseball teams participated in the second annual Chris Bults Memorial Baseball Tournament in Moorefield on Aug. 26.

MOUNT FOREST – The winners of the 19th annual Harry Bye Cancer Patient Services Golf tournament at Pike Lake Golf Centre on Aug. 2 was a team from The Cooperators.

DRAYTON – Sporting bright white T-shirts, a determined group of 55 Norwell Dairy employees and their families completed a 4km walk around Drayton on Aug. 17 to raise funds to fight cancer.

PALMERSTON- Senior ambassador Peyton McBeth and junior ambassador Hailey Schneider were kept busy at the Palmerston Agricultural Fair last weekend.