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Nicole Beswitherick

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LDSS class expands practical learning at ag biz

Nicole Beswitherick March 29, 2024Listowel Banner, Local News, News

On March 20, the Listowel District Secondary School (LDSS) Ag Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) class visited Equipment Ontario for a day of learning.

North Perth cricket program concludes inaugural session

Nicole Beswitherick March 28, 2024Listowel Banner, Sports

Listowel District Secondary School (LDSS) hosted its last night of cricket on March 22.

Atwood Lions Stagette a success

Nicole Beswitherick March 28, 2024Listowel Banner, Local News

The Atwood Lions Stagette was held on Saturday, March 23 at the Elma Memorial Community Centre, its second year running with proceeds going towards the refurbishment of the EMCC. 

Martin Duif headed to UCI World Championships with Team Canada for paracycling

Nicole Beswitherick March 21, 2024Listowel Banner, Sports

A former resident of Listowel, Martin Duif, is headed off to Ostend, Belgium in May to participate with Team Canada at the UCI World Championships for paracycling.

Three local athletes bring home medals from Olympic weightlifting provincials

Nicole Beswitherick March 7, 2024Listowel Banner, Sports

The Ontario Masters Provincials in Olympic Lifting was held in St. Thomas on Feb. 24, and local athletes Stephanie Brooks, Karla Daviau and Angie Alexander all came home with medals.

Annual Paddyfest darts tournament packs Parkview Gardens

Nicole Beswitherick February 29, 2024Listowel Banner, Local News

LISTOWEL – Parkview Gardens in Listowel was a packed house for the annual Paddyfest darts tournament on Feb. 24.

CNOY participants walk to raise thousands for North Perth’s most vulnerable

Nicole Beswitherick February 29, 2024Listowel Banner, Local News

LISTOWEL – Over 125 walkers and 20 sponsors braved the frigid late-winter conditions for United…

Ellis set to retire as CEO, president of LWHA

Nicole Beswitherick February 15, 2024Listowel Banner, News, Wingham Advance Times

Karl Ellis, president and CEO of the Listowel Wingham Hospitals Alliance (LWHA), will be stepping down into retirement by September this year.

Canada Food Price Report predicts increase of up to 4.5% next year

Nicole Beswitherick December 13, 2023Listowel Banner, Local News, News, Walkerton Herald-Times, Wingham Advance Times

Canada’s Food Price Report predicts food prices will increase by 2.5 to 4.5 per cent in 2024.

Walkerton residents prepare for ‘push for palliative care’

Nicole Beswitherick October 12, 2023Local News, News, Walkerton Herald-Times

Jenna Lee Lethbridge and her husband, Tyler Lethbridge, will be participating in a five-kilometre Spartan Race on Oct. 21 to fundraise for Saugeen Hospice, the six-bed hospice being planned for construction in the East Ridge Business Park, just east of Walkerton.

Author from Walkerton debuts new book

Nicole Beswitherick August 11, 2023Arts & Entertainment, Local News, News, Walkerton Herald-Times

Jenna Lee Lethbridge recently launched her new book titled, A Dog’s Love at Roc ‘n’ Duke’s Mount Forest and Walkerton locations.

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“Erie Belle” blows up off Kincardine

KINCARDINE - On Nov. 21, 1883 the “Erie Belle” was destroyed in a boiler explosion two miles south of Kincardine.

McGugan briefs Huron County Council on amalgamation pitfalls

GODERICH – “The bottom line is that we expect this amalgamation to be more costly for the…

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Panthers senior beach volleyball wrap-up

LISTOWEL – Panthers senior girls volleyball teams played their final beach volleyball games…

2026 Hayloft Music Festival

To access this post, you must purchase Digital Subscription - Monthly or Digital…

See all Listowel area articles.

Teeswater arena roof repair approved as council opts for lower-cost fix

TEESWATER – A lower-cost roof repair will move ahead at the Teeswater-Culross Community Centre after council approved a $37,940 project that addresses current leaks while keeping the door open for a larger replacement if provincial funding is approved.

Tentative agreement reached for school bus contract negotiations

BRUCE COUNTY – Families across Grey-Bruce, weeks before school was set to start, have been told a contract has been reached regarding bus services for students.

See all Mildmay area articles.

Steve Travale elected to the 2026/28 AMO board of directors

OTTAWA – Steve Travale, Brockton council member, has been elected to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) board of directors’ rural caucus.

Peabody ‘not giving up’ on court security cost issue

WALKERTON – The mayor of Brockton, Chris Peabody, had promised months ago – at the April 14 council meeting, to be exact – to bring the matter of court security costs to this year’s Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) conference in Ottawa.

See all Walkerton area articles.

Council strikes committee for future of Galbraith Memorial Gates

It was discussed by council that the importance of these gates being a war memorial, and multiple members of council having heard inquiries from the community on the memorial’s future, spurred this action forward. 

Council approves garden suite, bylaw a 10-year timeline

Morris-Turnberry council approved a garden suite agreement and authorized establishing a 10-year temporary-use bylaw, amended from the previously used 20-year timeline.

See all Wingham area articles.

Editorial

Learning from Ignatieff, Pierre’s son, ‘Titanic’

“If this is the direction the rats are going, that’s good enough for me.”

Here we go again with the value of the Sunshine List

If you read last week’s Listowel Banner you will have seen that North Perth Coun. Allan Rothwell, a retired government employee, thinks the public salary disclosure (also known as the Sunshine List) needs to be adjusted for inflation.

Community newspaper publishers need fair rates, quality service from Canada Post

Community newspaper publishers are asking the Honourable Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement and Québec Lieutenant, to direct Canada Post to offer publishers the same rate it offers to the country’s dominant flyer printer.

Columnists

Council strikes committee for future of Galbraith Memorial Gates

By Rachel Hammermueller

It was discussed by council that the importance of these gates being a war memorial, and multiple members of council having heard inquiries from the community on the memorial’s future, spurred this action forward. 

Council approves garden suite, bylaw a 10-year timeline

By Rachel Hammermueller

Morris-Turnberry council approved a garden suite agreement and authorized establishing a 10-year temporary-use bylaw, amended from the previously used 20-year timeline.

Steve Travale elected to the 2026/28 AMO board of directors

By Pauline Kerr

OTTAWA – Steve Travale, Brockton council member, has been elected to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) board of directors’ rural caucus.

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