Having access to quality health care is especially important in rural areas. On Saturday, Oct. 15, CKNX AM920 will be hosting the 21st annual CKNX Health Care Heroes Radiothon to help raise funds for eight area hospital foundations, including Listowel, Palmerston and Wingham.
Wingham Advance Times
Morris-Turnberry to consider implementing development, servicing guidelines
Council is considering adopting a policy that would standardize the guidelines for developments and servicing within Morris-Turnberry.
Morris-Turnberry supports review of Wildlife Damage Compensation Program
Council has endorsed a motion from the Township of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh (ACW) asking the province to review the amount paid to municipalities for administering the Wildlife Damage Compensation Program.
ORNGE air ambulance used to transport worker with life-threatening injuries
A hydro worker was sent to an out-of-area hospital with life-threatening injuries after what Huron County OPP is calling an apparent electrocution just outside of Wingham on Sunday.
Maitland Conservation members tour ecological stream restoration project on Dickies Creek
Maitland Conservation (MC) board members toured a recently completed ecological stream restoration project in Lucknow that will significantly improve the site next to the Lucknow Community Greenway Trail.
Demand exceeding supply for local breakfast club
Maitland River Elementary School principal Angela Cowley is very concerned for students she says are arriving at school every day with no lunch.
Fall expected to be warmer, drier than normal says climatologist
After a rather uneventful summer, weather wise, one climatologist believes we will have a warmer and drier than normal fall.
From humble beginnings
Anja and Henry van der Vlies are from the same town in Holland. Yet, they never met until both were in Canada.
‘It’s almost like chasing a ghost’
The unsweet smells of sewage has returned to Formosa.
South Bruce to host volunteer appreciation event
The Municipality of South Bruce will host a volunteer appreciation night later this year.
Ironmen fall short in home opener
Despite outshooting their competitors in both games last weekend, the Wingham Ironmen could not secure a win in their first weekend at home in PJHL Pollock Division action.
Maitland Conservation, OPP offer tips to prevent trespassing ATVs within Howick Township
Complaints of ATV noise and trespassing on private property in Howick Township from over a year ago are still being dealt with.
Howick Township to join Perth-Wellington riding in proposed federal electoral map
The Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario has proposed a new electoral map for consideration that would remove Howick Township from the federal riding of Huron-Bruce and place them within the riding of Perth-Wellington.
Area adults 18+ can now receive bivalent booster at HPPH clinics
As of Sept. 26, all individuals aged 18 and over can receive the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster at Huron Perth Public Health clinics.
Listowel, Wingham residents facing drug charges following series of raids
Twenty-six individuals, including five from Listowel and four from Wingham, are facing numerous criminal and drug-related charges following the execution of nine search warrants across the region on Wednesday.
