CAMBRIDGE – Imagine a highway along the Toronto-Waterloo Region Corridor, except instead of paved roads for cars, trucks and motorcycles, the pathway is made of native gardens supporting bees, butterflies, birds and other pollinators.
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Music, meditation and more at Coming Home Festival
AMARANTH – A weekend of camping, workshops, meditation and music awaits ticket holders of the Coming Home Festival in Amaranth Township.
Drayton Entertainment offers summer camps
DRAYTON – For the first time, the Drayton Entertainment Youth Academy is thrilled to announce two weeks of EPIC Summer Camps at the Drayton Festival Theatre.
Waste depot moving to Rothsay
WELLINGTON COUNTY – The Mobile Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Depot is moving from the Erin Roads Garage to the Rothsay Waste Facilty, and will be there for June.
County library introduces cognitive activity kits
WELLINGTON COUNTY — The county’s library branches now have cognitive activity kits available for borrowing.
Expanding alcohol sales to convenience stores will increase risks/harms: Mercer
GUELPH – Dr. Nicola Mercer has expressed concern about the province’s recent move to allow the sale of beer and wine at convenience stores. She noted 8,500 new stores in the province will be able to sell alcohol as of Sept. 5, “and it is likely we will see an increase in alcohol harms."
Remembering county’s D-Day contributions on 80th anniversary
NORMANDY – June 6 marks 80 years since Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy to begin the liberation of western Europe. Nearly 150,000 troops, including more than 14,000 Canadians landed or parachuted into the area on the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasion, also called Operation Overlord.
Hospice Wellington’s 20th Hike for Hospice raises over $70,000
GUELPH – About 450 hikers participated in the 20th Hike for Hospice in support of Hospice Wellington on June 2.
Celebrating local food week
ONTARIO – It’s Local Food Week in Ontario.
Seniors centres celebrating ‘one of the most beautiful months of the year’
WELLINGTON COUNTY – The month of June is Seniors Month and this year’s theme is “Working for Seniors.”