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GUELPH – The Grade 10 Foods and Nutrition course at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Secondary School prepared food for 100 people at the Royal City Mission as a Wellington Catholic District School Board and local Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association initiative.

Winners – The Centre Wellington Wrestling Club participated in the Tri-City Training wrestling…

Lit up – The “Turn On Your Lights” Christmas light contest was sponsored by Royal LePage RCR…

PUSLINCH – With a spread sheet containing $5.9 million in expenditures for 2023, Puslinch council took its time sifting through some last-minute budget requests at its Jan. 5 council meeting.

GUELPH – The Nutritious Food Basket report paints a picture of rising food costs and the challenges those costs pose to students, people living on social assistance and fixed incomes, and even those considered gainfully employed.

BRUCEDALE – Guelph/Eramosa Township has bumped its proposed 2023 tax increase from 3.76 to 4.85%, but no one attended a public meeting on Jan. 4 to speak for or against the change.

GUELPH – Grade 12 students from the Upper Grand and Wellington Catholic district school boards are working hard to organize a big fundraising gala. The student-led Imagine Charity Gala is on Jan. 21 at the River Run Centre in Guelph, from 6 to 10pm. 

ELORA – Centre Wellington senior staff have discovered that tendering projects early in the year yields more bids and better pricing, which is why they brought five capital projects to council at its Jan. 5 meeting for approval before council has really delved into the 2023 budget.

ELORA – A public meeting about a proposed 273-townhouse development on Wellington Road 7 that was cancelled last month due to bad weather, has been rescheduled for Jan. 27.

DRAYTON – Rising staffing costs and waste collection were among the topics raised by members of the public at a Mapleton community budget workshop at the PMD arena on Jan. 5.

MOUNT FOREST –  Police are investigating several potential hate crimes after swastikas were marked in the bathrooms at the library, arena and a restaurant here this week.

GUELPH – It didn’t take long for George Bridge to get a gavel back in his hand. The former mayor of Minto, who did not run in the October election, was appointed by Wellington County as its citizen representative on the WDGPH board of health. At the board’s inaugural meeting, he was reelected chair.

DRAYTON – A family of four lost its home and possessions as a result of Jan. 4 house fire on Wellington Street here. Mapleton Fire Chief Rick Richardson said it was fortunate no one was home when the fire broke out just after 8pm.

KENORA – A former Wellington County resident was recently recognized for a remarkable career in emergency medical service, much of it spent providing first response training in Indigenous communities in Ontario’s far north. 

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Confirmed COVID-19 cases across the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health (WDGPH) region have risen significantly over the past two weeks, while hospitalizations are up slightly.