Wingham Advance Times

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Listowel Wingham Hospitals Alliance (LWHA) has worked closely with its partners in infection prevention and control to ensure patients, staff, physicians and families/caregivers are safe and protected while in local hospitals.

With warmer weather around the corner, more people will be travelling and adventuring, which can mean one or more of the following may happen: blood donations will decline, demand for blood will be up, or both or neither will occur.

Its staff, clients and even the organizational name have went through countless changes over the last 65 years, but the overall objective of Community Living Wingham & District (CLWD) has remained the same. In short, it continues to be committed to assisting people with developmental needs to live,

The Wingham Business Improvement Association (BIA) held its first Waste Free Wednesday event of 2023 on April 26, cleaning up litter around town and along the public trails.

It was a flawless Friday of rugby for both the F.E. Madill girls’ and senior boys clubs on April 28, with the latter taking a 24-0 win over St. Michael Catholic Secondary School. The girls squad would post a 26-0 victory over St. Mike's.

In the spring of 2022, as high school sports squads struggled to restart in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, three teams took part in the 14th running of the Matthew Dinning Memorial Cup rugby tournament.

Candidates for the top seat of the Ontario Liberal Party (OLP) paid a visit to Wingham on April 29, introducing themselves to the people of Huron-Bruce and holding a question-and-answer session at the Wingham Golf and Curling Club, hosted by the Huron-Bruce Provincial Liberal Association.

Tempers got heated at North Huron council’s meeting on May 1 after one councillor found himself in hot water for speaking directly to members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community who had requested that the township once again declare June as Pride Month and fly the Rainbow Flag on the municipal flag pole.

Municipal staff are considering the recent South Bruce Nuclear Exploration Forum to be “very successful.”

Council has awarded the contract for a comprehensive zoning bylaw review. And the good news for ratepayers is that the review should come in under budget.

With only three months until the big weekend of Aug. 3-7, the Mildmay-Carrick Homecoming 2023 Committee held their regular meeting on Tuesday, April 25.

Council wants more information about what is involved with installing an electric vehicle (EV) charging station within South Bruce.