Happy Canada Day!
Residents, businesses, schools have been preparing themselves to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday on Saturday July 1st.
Month: June 2017
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Man airlifted from scene of Wellesley collision
A 79-year-old Puslinch Township man was airlifted from the scene of a two-vehicle collision Thursday afternoon on Lobsinger…
Mission Day at St. Boniface School
Grade 7/8 teacher Henry Bink with some of the students who made purchases It was a terrible day…
![An aerial view of the area around the West Montrose covered bridge, where homes along the river experienced significant flooding on June 23. Residents want to know why it took so long to be warned of increased risks from rising waters. [Perry Weber]](https://observerxtra.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/NEWS_West-Montrose.jpg)
West Montrose residents unhappy with response to flooding that hit village last week
Tempers were rising as fast as the Grand River, as West Montrose residents sought answers in the wake…
Officials tallying costs, looking for answers in aftermath of last week’s flooding in Woolwich and beyond
Woolwich is still tallying up the damage from a flash flood that struck much of the township last…
Celebrating a Confederation struck 150 years ago on July 1, 1867
The British North America Act, signed by Queen Victoria, was proclaimed law on July 1, 1867, creating the…
Woolwich to lobby region for pedestrian crosswalk at St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market
Woolwich will have to get political if it wants a pedestrian crosswalk at the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market.…
![St. Jacobs Public School Grade 4 students partnered with St. Jacobs - Home Hardware to paint a kite in celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday. [Submitted]](https://observerxtra.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/NEWS_Kite.jpg)
St. Jacobs PS students colour up a Canadian-themed kite to mark the country’s 150th
St. Jacobs Public School was chosen to participate in the making of a Home Hardware video to Celebrate…
Partaking of strawberry season at Chartwell Elmira
All were welcome to the Chateau Gardens Auxiliary annual strawberry social on June 22 at the Chartwell Elmira…
View From Here – June 29, 2017
Just as work gets underway on a splash pad in Elmira’s Bolender Park, Mother Nature chimes in with…