I am a husband, father, and grandfather of four. I grew up in Kitchener, but now call Mount Forest home. I have worked in child and youth services all my professional life, including for the last 21 years at a high school.
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PERTH WELLINGTON Q&A : Ashley Fox, Liberal Party of Ontario
My name is Ashley Fox and I’m a Registered Practical Nurse. I grew up in Harriston and now reside in Palmerston with my husband, Jeff. My experience in nursing is primarily in senior care, including time in hospitals, addiction care, retirement homes, and long-term care.
PERTH WELLINGTON Q&A: Jo-Dee Burbach, Ontario NDP
I decided to run provincially because I care about people, and I believe that families deserve better than what they have lived through for the past four years
PERTH WELLINGTON Q&A : Laura Bisutti, Green Party of Ontario
I grew up in Mount Hope, in a rural area south of Hamilton. I graduated from Mohawk College with a diploma in Chemical Engineering Technology and eventually came to Stratford in 1988 for a job in research and development compounding rubber.
CFI plants 100 trees at Turnberry Conservation Area in effort to restore pre-settlement forest
The Turnberry Conservation Area is a flat, grassy field with a soccer field bordering on the Maitland River. On the far side of the river is a dense forest that towers over the field and its soccer posts.
Huron Perth Ag Science Centre will be ‘something our community will be proud of’
Jill Lewis has a vision.
F.E. Madill, LDSS senior boys soccer teams plays to 1-1 draw
The F.E. Madill senior boys were under early furious pressure from the LDSS Lightning on May 10, but ultimately earned a 1-1 draw in Huron-Perth high school soccer action last Tuesday afternoon. The Mustangs (1-4-2) also earned their first victory of the 2022 spring season earlier in the day, shutti
Harvest of Hope already harvesting, season underway
It’s the second year of the Salvation Army’s Harvest of Hope, an ‘educational garden’ that provides produce for the food bank and a place where hopeful gardeners can work on developing their green thumb – if such a thing really exists.
Leaving a legacy: Jim and Judy Brenneman set to retire from Atwood funeral business
For the last two decades, Jim and Judy Brenneman have been there for the Atwood community and beyond.
Supporting the agri-food sector means economic growth, prosperity for Ontario
Throughout the last two years, farmers and farm businesses have worked hard to adapt to the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. That included ensuring Ontarians continued to have access to locally-grown food and keeping farm workers and rural communities healthy and safe.
Fifty Archives Treasures: 1901 – ‘Our Departed Queen Victoria’
After 50 years of operation, Stratford-Perth Archives houses an ever-growing collection of historical documents that are carefully preserved and made accessible for researchers from Perth County and around the world.
Hot take on the hot weather
As I get older, I find that I love summer and the hot weather less and less.
TURNBACKS
2012 – Nashville General Manager David Poile reflected on Listowel Junior Cyclones alumnus Nick Spaling’s second year playing full-time with the Predators. Survivors of the horrific Hampstead crash....
‘Wonderful country, wonderful people, wonderful opportunity’: Ukrainian family settling into new home in Perth County
The Pryyma family has been in Canada for a little more than a week, but already they have strong words for the welcome they have been met with.
Listowel library addition, lot sold to United Way
After a lengthy in-camera session at North Perth’s May 16 meeting, council passed two motions to declare and sell surplus buildings.
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