WELLINGTON COUNTY — It’s time to cut loose and kick off your Sunday shoes! Announcing Footloose the Musical, starring local high school students from Waterloo Region in the second annual Drayton Entertainment Youth Academy High School Musical Production.
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Countdown on for Elora Fergus Studio Art Tour
ELORA – The Elora Fergus Studio Tour is less than a month away running from 10am to 5pm over two weekends - Sept. 23 to 24 and Sept. 30 to Oct. 1.
Blue Suede Elvis Tribute Band performs at Fergus Grand Theatre
CENTRE WELLINGTON — The Blue Suede Elvis Tribute Band came to the Fergus Grand Theatre on Sept. 2.
AED installed at Arthur seniors centre
ARTHUR – A potentially life-saving device has been installed at the Arthur Senior Citizen Hall.
Optimist Club hosts annual car show at Alma Community Centre
ALMA – The Alma Community Centre parking lot was overflowing with classic cars and trucks on Aug. 26 for a car show hosted by the Alma Optimist Club.
Rae announces $3.4 million in local hospital funding
WELLINGTON COUNTY – Perth-Wellington MPP Matthew Rae has announced over $3.4 million in funding for local emergency rooms and acute medical and surgical beds.
Police beat: Counterfeit Cash Incident
ARTHUR – Police are looking for help to identify a man they say used counterfeit cash here - although they won’t identify where the incident took place.
Elora Flea is the bees knees – crafters, foodies come out in droves
ELORA — Four times a year and at Christmas time local artisans and others get together behind the Geddes Street Market in Elora to display their wares. Here are photos from Sept. 3.
Three local programs receive federal funding to increase support for substance users
GUELPH – Guelph MP Lloyd Longfield, on behalf of the Honourable Ya’ara Saks, Minister of Mental and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, announced more than $1.8 million in federal funding for three projects in Guelph through Health Canada’s Substance Use and Addictions Program (SUAP).
Boy’s diary from 1890s provides portrait of small-town life
A couple of weeks ago, Elysia DeLaurentis at the Wellington County Museum and Archives showed me a recent donation to the collection. It is a diary kept by a schoolboy in Elora during the 1890s.
Two down, one to go
It was welcome news on Monday when “housing minister” Steve Clark resigned.
Moths
Maybe it’s the country life, but I feel I have come a long way in terms of my personal phobias of some of nature’s creatures that I have encountered this summer.
All charges against OPP officer dropped
GUELPH – Charges against a Wellington OPP officer have been withdrawn more than three years after they were first laid. Sukhvinder Singh Toor was charged in connection with secretly recorded conversations at the Rockwood OPP station.
BIA chair files complaint about derelict Mount Forest building
KENILWORTH – The chair of the Mount Forest Business Improvement Association (BIA) has taken the association’s grievances about the old tea room building, at 178 Main Street, to the township.