Joanne Shuttleworth

ELORA – The future of the multi-use pad in Bissell Park now hinges on the township receiving a grant from the province's Community Sport and Recreation Infrastructure Fund (CSRIF).

ABERFOYLE – Puslinch council is considering setting a default speed limit of 60km/h throughout the township after receiving a report from Paradigm Transportation Solutions at its Oct. 9 meeting.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Ted Arnott will not be running for re-election when the next provincial election is called. The Wellington-Halton Hills MPP and Speaker of the Legislature told the Advertiser on Oct. 15 he’s decided to finish his term but will not seek re-election.

FERGUS – Terri-Lynne Rade gave up a career in health care and will soon find herself on the runway of Startup Fashion Week – or at least the vegan leather handbags she designed will be modelled on the runway.

ELORA – Three little words can help eradicate polio: “Pizza for Polio.” Say that when ordering a pizza at Vito’s Pizzeria in Elora the week of Oct. 21 to 27 and 50 per cent of the sale will be donated to the Fergus-Elora Rotary Club and its End Polio campaign.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – Council is contemplating $26.4 million in capital projects in 2025. Staff presented the 2025 preliminary draft capital budget to council at a special committee of the whole meeting on Sept. 19. The draft outlined some major construction projects, and studies to occur in 2025

FERGUS – Another housing project has been proposed for St. David Street North in Fergus. This one, at 750 St. David St. N. at the corner of Parkside Drive, proposes a 12-unit stacked townhouse complex on the large lot where there’s currently a bungalow and garage.

ELORA – Centre Wellington council has opened the door for a new grocery store in Elora, beside The Gorge Restaurant in between Wellington Road 7 and Park Road.

ELORA – Ian Evans thought he was on to something special last year when he launched the first Elora Adventure Film Festival. This year he’s certain of it.

GUELPH ­– With much fanfare, speeches, and a smudging ceremony causing the fire alarm to go off, the new Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington (CMHA WW) building on Woolwich Street in Guelph celebrated its official opening on Oct. 2.

ELORA – Moloks will not be installed at the site of new public washrooms in downtown Elora after all. 

CENTRE WELLINGTON – Centre Wellington will put a pause on the idea of paid parking in downtown Fergus and Elora for 2025. And the township will commence the process to move from the provincial offences model to administrative monetary penalty system (AMP) when it comes to parking tickets.

ABERFOYLE – Puslinch council has agreed to fund a safety study at Boreham Park at the urging of the ad hoc group Concerned Residents of Puslinch. But this will be the last study of Boreham Park, depending on the outcome of the study, Mayor James Seeley said at the Sept. 25 meeting.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – The township will take a regulatory approach to short-term rentals as it tries to balance the need for short- term accommodation for tourists with complaints from residents that it’s “the wild west” in residential neighbourhoods because of the way some Airbnbs operate.

ABERFOYLE – Puslinch council heard from plenty of delegations on Sept. 25 as it contemplates a bylaw to regulate noise at gun clubs in the township.  At the moment, the Sportsmens Club Galt, located on Gore Road, is the only gun club/shooting range in the township.