News

GUELPH – The Guelph Police Service is warning people about a high-risk offender with a history of sexually assaulting strangers. 

GUELPH/ERAMOSA – A 29-year-old driver from Listowel is facing life-threatening injuries after a car crash here on Aug. 8.

GUELPH – Over the next four years, the Ontario government plans to spend as much as $1.6 million to help make it more obvious to shoppers which peaches, plums, pears and the like were grown in the province.

MAPLETON – “So many new things are going on” at the Drayton Fair this year.

MINTO – A start-up program aiming to help youth succeed, has granted 50 students the opportunity to enter the world of entrepreneurship this summer. 

MAPLETON – The Mapleton Sunflower Festival will take place on Aug. 17 and aims to raise enough money to purchase an electric stretcher for the Palmerston hospital.

GUELPH – A Nation’s Table: The Anita Stewart and Food Day Canada Story was unveiled at the University of Guelph Arboretum on July 25. 

ARTHUR – The volunteer-based group Arthur Animal Rescue is urging locals to adopt as it is “overflowing” with cats and kittens. 

ELORA – Grand River Raceway celebrated its 35th annual Industry Day on  Aug. 5, welcoming guests to the reconfigured five-eighth mile track in Elora. 

MOUNT FOREST – A petition to save Mount Forest’s Lion Roy Grant Community Pool that has been circulating on social media platforms demands that Mayor Andy Lennox be “held accountable” for the decision to demolish the old swimming pool.

MARDEN – The annual Ontario Pirate Festival took place at Marden Park in Guelph/Eramosa throughout the Civic Holiday long weekend. 

MOUNT FOREST – Erin Kiers is a local artist and business owner who saw an opportunity to brighten Mount Forest’s downtown core and took it.

PALMERSTON – The Palmerston Lions Club joined forces with Crime Stoppers Guelph Wellington (CSGW) to erect a new sign on Main Street West, east of Highway 23 in Palmerston.

FERGUS – The Fergus Pipe Band held a concert at the Wellington County Museum on Aug. 1.

WELLINGTON COUNTY   – The Pet Valu Walk for Dog Guides campaign raised more than $1.3 million this year, thanks to thousands of volunteers, including members of the Palmerston, Marsville and Fergus Lions Clubs.