Joanne Shuttleworth

FERGUS – Brendan McLeod did a little musical archeology and discovered songs sung by soldiers in the trenches at Vimy Ridge.

FERGUS – Most people familiar with local history will know that Beatty Brothers Limited was the largest manufacturer in the area and an economic driver in the early days of the Village of Fergus.

GUELPH – With an eviction deadline staring them in the face, unhoused people living in downtown Guelph’s St. George’s Square don’t know what they are going to do come Nov. 13.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – Watch out lead-foot drivers. Speed limits are about to be reduced in 28 road segments across the township.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – Despite requests from developers to put the brakes on the township’s urban boundary until analysis of the new Provincial Policy Statement (PPS) can be done and new population targets determined, council endorsed the new urban boundary recommended by staff.

ABERFOYLE – Puslinch council started slogging through the township’s proposed 2025 capital budget at its Oct. 23 meeting. The proposed capital budget for 2025 totals $6.6 million. Of that, $1.4 million is proposed to come from the tax levy and the balance from reserves or grants.

PUSLINCH – Firefighters responded to a grass fire call on Wellington Road 36 in Badenoch around 5am on Oct. 23 but arrived to find the township-owned storage shed had burned to the ground. The shed was used by Puslinch Minor Soccer and all its equipment was destroyed in the blaze.

ELORA – The technical became dramatic at the Oct. 28 meeting of Centre Wellington council, when discussion of councillor Bronwynne Wilton’s notice of motion came up on the agenda.

ELORA – Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington has a different kind of fundraiser in store this year.

ELORA – Councillor Bronwynne Wilton thinks council made the wrong decision when it voted for construction of a refrigerated multi-use pad at Bissell Park, and she hopes to convince council to reconsider that decision during Monday night’s council meeting.

ELORA – The volunteers who run the book sale that benefits the Elora Festival have a problem. Their storage room is full, thanks to generous community donations of books over the summer.

FERGUS – Pain is killing Dan Hofsink, vertebrae by vertebrae, and he’s reaching the end of his rope.  And the Canadian health care system hasn’t been able to help.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – Developers and landowners lined up on Oct. 15 to tell council why the proposed expanded urban boundary for Fergus and Elora should expand a little further to include their properties too.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – After years of discussion and planning, council approved a subsidy plan for homeowners in the township with termites at its Oct. 15 meeting. And as soon as the township signs agreements with Orkin Canada Pest Control and Aetna Pest Control, residents can start applying.