Community News

MINTO – Municipal staff members are preparing a report in response to a request from the Minto Pride committee seeking the town’s help in setting up more durable decorations during Pride Month.

MINTO – Keith Askett of Palmerston’s Askett Appliance Centre has made the decision to retire and close his store.

MOUNT FOREST – When his delivery wagon broke due to a lot of hard work, Wellington Advertiser carrier Owen Wagner was surprised by a customer who gifted him a handmade replacement.

CLIFFORD - On June 30 and July 1 the Great Lakes Truck Show filled the Clifford Rotary Park with big rigs and classic vehicles from various eras.

WELLINGTON NORTH– Louise Marshall Hospital Auxiliary members Gail Jefferson, Marion Officer and Penny Renken helped to serve hot beverages and sweet treats to shoppers at the North Wellington Farmer’s Market on June 17.

MOUNT FOREST – Graduating Grade 12 Wellington Heights Secondary School student Joey Townsend has won the University of Toronto’s National Book Award.

MINTO – The 2023 junior and senior ambassadors for the Harriston-Minto Fall Fair were selected at a competition on July 8.

HARRISTON – Harriston Legion members and members of the branch’s Catch the Ace committee recently invited representatives from the Palmerston and District Hospital’s MRI Committee to join them at the branch, in order to present them with a cheque for $20,000 towards the MRI campaign.

MOUNT FOREST — Leah Richardson and Mason Eurig are this year’s recipients of the Senior Athlete of the Year Award at Wellington Heights.

HOLSTEIN – July 1 marked a big day for the Egremont Optimists Club.

PALMERSTON – Diane Speers and Connie Robinson of The Blessings to You Centre in Palmerston recently attended a special evening at the Cutten Fields in Guelph hosted by The Children’s Foundation of Guelph and Wellington.

MOUNT FOREST - The 21st Mount Fireworks Festival takes place from July 13 to 16 and will be "one for the records."

KENILWORTH - Wellington North council has declined a recent pitch from a real estate trust to spend more taxpayer dollars on an intersection related to a new grocery store coming to the community.