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OFT grant supports Business Enterprise Centre’s business mentor program
GUELPH - Times may be tough for local entrepreneurs, but help to level up is now available regionally, thanks to an Ontario Trillium Foundation - Resilient Communities Fund grant awarded to the Business Centre Guelph-Wellington.
Winner of photo Halloween Costume Photo Contest announced
WINNER! – The Advertiser welcomed photo submissions as part of our ‘Halloween Costume –…
Hiking Bruce Trail became mental health therapy for Rockwood native
HANOVER – It has long been on Olivia Sroka’s bucket list to hike the Bruce Trail end to end, and it has taken a pandemic and mental health breakdown for the 30-year-old to do it.
Centre Wellington’s new council, mayor officially inaugurated
ELORA – It was a short but stately ceremony at township hall on Nov. 21 as Centre Wellington’s newly-elected council was inaugurated.
Lots wrong with Bill 23: Puslinch council
ABERFOYLE – Puslinch council spent quite a bit of time crafting its response to the province’s proposed Bill 23 at its Nov. 9 meeting after hearing from a delegation and receiving correspondence from conservation authorities within the township.
One person dead following crash in Wellington North
WELLINGTON NORTH – One person is dead following a single-vehicle crash on Highway 6, just south of Mount Forest, on Monday morning.
NRStor planning to expand capacity at Harriston energy storage facility
MINTO – NRStor Inc. is making plans to upgrade its groundbreaking energy storage facility in Harriston.
Youth group supports community garden with creative signs
FERGUS – Among the first things to be planted in the spring at the new community garden at the Fergus sportsplex will be signs in each of the garden plots. And those signs were made by youth in the Sparrow program offered at the Elora Centre for the Arts.
‘No job action’: strike averted as province, union reach tentative deal
WELLINGTON COUNTY – Upper Grand and Wellington Catholic District School Board students will remain in classrooms this week following a tentative deal reached between the province and the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Building review shows $340 million in construction activity since 2010
MINTO – A 12-year review of building activity in this municipality shows nearly $340 million worth of local construction since 2010.
Local pharmacists getting creative during children’s medication shortage
WELLINGTON COUNTY – Local pharmacists are getting creative to address a national supply shortage of child-dose painkillers and anti-inflammatory medication.
Drayton Entertainment announces ‘a season for everyone’
CAMBRIDGE – Drayton Entertainment has announced an ambitious 2023 season, featuring 16 productions across the local region. Mega-musicals, hysterical comedies and touching dramas will take centre stage from April 5 to Dec. 31 at the theatre organization’s four venues in Waterloo and Wellington.
Wellington North taking another swing at provincial funding for roadwork
KENILWORTH – Wellington North is taking another swing at the province’s Connecting Link funding, hoping the application is knocked out of the park.
Local residents protest Bill 23, the Building Homes Faster Act
FERGUS – About 40 people gathered outside Wellington-Halton Hills MPP Ted Arnott’s office on Nov. 16 to protest Bill 23, the proposed Building Homes Faster Act.