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WELLINGTON COUNTY - Mary Ellen Cann School of Highland Dancing in Guelph travelled to the Scotdance Canada Competition in Halifax.

ERIN – Angelstone Events has been operating here since 2011. 

GUELPH – Dripping with sweat and breathing hard through flared nostrils, an agitated horse shakes her head. The horse stumbles, ears pinned back, and kicks out. 

ERIN – HorseDay Erin, held in early June at the Erin Fairgrounds, gave back to the local equine community to support horse education and horse welfare. 

GUELPH – Five provincial equestrian associations have partnered with Equine Guelph to offer online training for those interested in becoming horse show judges in grassroots circuits.

ERIN – At just three years old, Isaac O’Hagan has already shown interest in helping out with farm chores.

ERIN - Volunteer firefighters from stations 10 and 50 in Erin and Hillsburgh responded to a structure fire in Erin on the night of July 25.

ELORA – Centre Wellington has initiated a study of five bridges in former Pilkington Township that are all within 20 kilometres of each other and closed to traffic – three of them for more than a decade.

ERIN – Council here has endorsed town comments to be submitted to the province in response to proposed changes to provincial planning policy.

ERIN – Residents’ priorities for the town were scribbled onto colourful sticky notes at a July 12 open house at the Erin Community Centre.

ELORA – It's just a drop in the bucket, but the owners of 27-43 Mill St. W. in Elora will receive a $10,000 grant Community Improvement Plan grant from the township.

ERIN – Competitors took to an arena for bull riding, barrel racing, pole bending, and bronc riding at the Ram Rodeo held at the Erin Fairgrounds on July 22 and 23.

GUELPH — On Aug. 10 to 13, Tony Molesworth will be returning for another three-day-run in the Guelph Fringe Festival.

MAPLETON – Police are reminding residents to be wary of investment scams after a Mapleton resident was defrauded of over $100,000 – and then several thousand more after "a company" claimed it could recover the lost funds.

PUSLINCH – Mayor James Seeley is no longer employed as a City of Guelph firefighter. “It’s a personal and private situation I am not willing to discuss,” he stated. Seeley also confirmed that clerk Courtenay Hoytfox has been named acting CAO of Puslinch Township.