A helping hand for 35 years
Woolwich Community Services is an agency with deep roots in this community; on June 15, it will celebrate its 35th anniversary. It’s also a milestone for executive director Don Harloff, who has been with the organization for 20 years.
Woolwich Community Services started life as the Woolwich Community Information Centre, operated out Read more
Students make an effort to go green
An area that was barren and sparse just five years ago is now lush and green, filled with trees, bushes, birdhouses and flowers thanks to a group of environmentally aware students and teachers at Linwood Public School.
To fund their greening projects, the students put into action the money they have raised over the past few Read more
Preparing to set Wheels in Motion
A few years after the car accident that left him a quadriplegic, Cliff Voll visited his sister Joanne in Sauble Beach.
Determined to be independent, the St. Clements man made a reservation at a new hotel that billed itself as wheelchair accessible. When he arrived, he discovered that his wheelchair accessible room included a step up into the room and another step into the Read more
EDSS athlete sets long jump record
Back in 1970, Paul Majury, a student at Grand River Collegiate Institute, set a new Central Western Ontario record in the senior boys’ long jump with a leap of 6.18 metres.
That record stood for 40 years until last week when Cory Giroux of EDSS smashed it by jumping 6.36 metres.
Giroux’s teammate Scott Shea was just two centimeters off the old record with a 6.16-metre Read more
Records fall to EDSS athletes
Elmira athletes broke three records at the Waterloo County track and field competition last week.
In the Midget boys’ division, Matt Bannon shattered records in the 1,500 and 3,000-metre races, both set last year by Preston High School’s Gavin Shields. Bannon shaved 6.55 seconds off the 1,500-metre race record with a time of 4:28.98 and ran the 3,000-metre race in 9:34.08, more than 18 second faster than Read more
Students enjoy more elbow room
The boxes are unpacked, the books are on the shelves and students have settled in to the shiny new wing on Wellesley Public School.
The school officially opened its $3.2-million addition this week. Renovations that started last April saw the entire front side of the school redone and 10 new classrooms added. The students moved into the new classrooms in November and six portables will be removed this summer Read more
Health survey targets lifestyle of Old Order Mennonites
A researcher studying chronic illness hopes a survey of Old Order Mennonite farmers in Waterloo Region will help pin down the lifestyle causes behind diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Kathryn Fisher, a PhD candidate at McMaster University in Hamilton, said the study is designed to test research that suggests people should eat less processed food, get regular exercise, drink alcohol in moderation and not smoke. The existing literature also stresses the physical and mental health benefits of Read more
Band members find their Second Wind
Jonathan Sauder first played with the band Second Wind when he was about eight years old.
His parents, Wendy and Brian, were friends with the band members and had been bringing him to their shows since he was five, smuggling him into bars over the supper hour. Jonathan had a natural talent on drums and one night, while playing in St. Clements, they brought him up on stage for a song Read more
Going local goes mainstream
It’s time to stop calling local food a trend.
In 2007, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon published The 100-Mile Diet, a book about their yearlong experiment with eating only locally grown foods. The book was a bestseller and popularized the idea of eating local – bypassing food that had been shipped over borders and oceans in favour of buying directly from farms and farmers’ markets Read more
Three local girls to join Team Ontario ringette squad
After three days of gruelling fitness testing and hours of playing ringette, Sam and Paige Nosal and Josslyn Denstedt were all exhausted. They’d all survived one round of cuts, but there was one more round to go before Team Ontario was finalized. Their legs were burning, and Sam thought she might be sick. But they had to push on and keep fighting, knowing the coaches who would make the final selection were watching.
Finally they got the letters that told them whether or not they’d made it. The news was good: all three will be on Team Ontario for the Canada Winter Games next year Read more
