CEMC provides update

Linda Dickson, the county’s community emergency management coordinator, provided an annual update to Guelph-Eramosa council last week.

Her yearly report outlines how the township has fulfilled its requirements under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act.

Her report included the following information:

- training sessions were held in April, May, September and November;

- an “incident management system table top exercise” was held in Elora on Oct. 24, and a township control group exercise was held on Nov. 15;

- mapping of critical infrastructure “at risk of being affected by emergencies” was completed for the township; and

- the county provided various educational opportunities throughout the year, including: information at libraries, draws, the county page in the Advertiser, Emergency Preparedness Day, the Mayor’s Cook-Off Challenge in July and use of a county vehicle “wrapped” for emergency preparedness advertising.

Mayor Chris White thanked Dickson for her presentation, telling her to “keep up the good work.”