Category: Community

I have had creating and being named Chairman of Red Fridays Guelph Facebook Group, under the guidance of Red Fridays Canada Mike Blais and Keven Ellis from Red Fridays Hamilton, with a challenge to see how many people in our community will show their support for our Troops all over the world by simply wearing red […]

Following the recent earthquake in Haiti, members of the Guelph community have pulled together to organize a benefit event featuring a wide selection of our amazing and world-class local-area talent. With overwhelming support from the local community, event organizers (Rev. Paul Clarkson, Dr. Ajay Heble, Sam Turton) have set a goal of raising $20,000 from this event, […]

Tourism Services would like to invite you to a special fundraising train excursion on February 6th, 2010. On January 18th, Destiny Tours announced a special dinner excursion of the Guelph Junction Express train to raise money to aid earthquake victims in Haiti. The train which is currently on winter hiatus will be put back into […]

Due to the urgency of this matter, a report is coming directly to Council on Monday January 25. This is a quick email to advise that in response to the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti and a community driven request to organize a benefit concert at the River Run Centre (Feb 7th), a staff will be […]

This correspondence was originally sent to Mayor Farbridge: You spoke of the Guelph Police, and how they are a great asset and they have been helping Guelph’s streets safe for many years , true !! However there is another group who Volunteer’s for the Guelph Police whom also help keep Guelph safe . This group is Community Volunteer Patrol […]

Policy Planning has completed its analysis of the City population. In order to provide consistent communication, this is to advise that the City population is 120,000, effective mid May 2009 (which is the benchmark reporting date used by Statistics Canada).     Staff

The following article appeared in the December 24 edition of the Guelph Tribune: It’s a long way from growing season, but city council decided this week to get behind a push to establish community gardens in Guelph. “It’s just a no-brainer, I think, that people should be able to grow food in their community” and […]

The following is Ward 2 city councillor Vicki Beard’s speech at the kickoff for the local Salvation Army’s annual Kettle Campaign. The kettle campaign runs until Dec. 24 and is aiming to collect $140,000. As of Dec. 19, it had raised $118,900 –85% of its goal. Funds help provide Christmas hampers to local families in […]

The following article appeared in the December 21 edition of the Guelph Mercury: When city residents head to the polls next October, there should be plenty of familiar names on the ballots. While some city councillors reached on the weekend were hesitant to tip their hands, none indicated definitively 2010 will be their last year […]

Community Services has recently initiated the Sustainable Neighbourhood Group Engagement Framework study (SNEF) to conduct an operational review of how the City engages, partners and structures our relationship with Guelph neighbourhood groups and the Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition.