News

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Compass Community Services is marking one year of providing people in the community and across the country access to life-saving support through three easy-to-remember numbers: 9-8-8.

KENILWORTH – Increasing service at the Mount Forest Cemetery to allow for Saturday burials could mean a slight tax rate increase in 2025 for Wellington North residents.

ELORA – Hand-crafted angel wing key chain ornaments have been flying off the shelves at Heritage River Retirement Residence, with proceeds going to the Centre Wellington Food Bank.

BELWOOD – The problem in Kathy Sievert’s home is not the number of Christmas trees she has on display – and there are 50 this year. It’s the number of tree ornaments she and her daughter have collected over the years.

TORONTO – A private member’s bill from Perth-Wellington MPP Matthew Rae meant to help promote agricultural tourism in the province has been referred to the Legislative Assembly for its third and final reading.

PUSLINCH – Wellington County has determined that Puslinch needs 600 more homes to meet its housing obligations to 2051.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – Randall Howard, chair of the Centre Wellington Community Foundation Board of Directors, announced a record-breaking single gift of $3.45 million from benefactor Russel Cox, a local business icon and philanthropist. 

GUELPH – Guelph Wish Fund for Children has launched a new holiday giving campaign aimed at getting donors to sponsor "wishes" for the children with significant medical challenges the organization supports.

GUELPH – Every Friday morning at Branch 234 of the Royal Canadian Legion in Guelph, members have a “veterans’ coffee hour.”

WELLINGTON COUNTY –The Operation Christmas Child Hanover and Area Team was thrilled to see the successful loading of over 6,000 shoebox gifts from Grey, Bruce, Wellington, Huron, Perth and Dufferin Counties.