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THE NEW TANNER10THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2010 Township DigestSchool Boards chairswaste facilities until January 29. Live Marino Gazzola was elected chair of trees must be stripped of all decorations the Wellington Catholic District School and will be accepted, free of charge, at Board and Trustee Steve Redmond was the Countys waste transfer facilities elected vice-chair at the Boards recent and landfill the closest to Rockwood is inaugural meeting.Aberfoyle, Elora or Bellwood. For urban At the Upper Grand District School residents Guelph/Eramosa, live trees will Boards inaugural meeting, Orangeville be picked up with the regular Fridays Trustee Bob Borden was elected as chair, pickups during the week of January 10.and Guelph Wards 1 and 5 Trustee Linda There are no changes to the curb/road-Busuttil was elected vice-chair.side garbage and blue box collection Christmas trPLANT SALE: The Rockwood District Lioness Clubs pre-Christmas craft/eesthis holiday season. On your regularly Wbazaar at the Rockmosa Community Hall was a great success and a lot of fun ellington County residents, includ-scheduled collection day, place user pay for poinsettia sellers Lindsay (7) (front left) and Alyssa (5) Stewart and Sherol ing Rockwood residents can drop off garbage bags and blue boxes at the curb/Steinberg (back), with son Noah. Denise Paulsen phototheir natural Christmas trees at County roadside by 7 a.m.A look back at Rockwood in 2010JanuaryCentennial Public School on-going work as an AIDS ac- A considerable comprom-pastor, the Reverend Hollis MacPhearson pitched 17 Rockwoods new medical raised over $2,335 for Haitian tivistise over hours of operation Hiscockstrikeouts at the Canadian centre officially the Guelph/relief efforts Wellington-Halton Hills ended a long-standing dispute Junenational Bantam champion-Eramosa Community Health FebruaryMPP Ted Arnott is named between the Guelph Rod and An elderly Eden Mills ships B.C.Centre opens on Alma Rockwood physician, Dr. Deputy House speaker at Gun Club and some Eden man, Bill Richie, died when a SeptemberStreetAnne-Marie Zajdlik, is named Queens ParkMills residentsraging fire consumed his home, One Rockwood business Students at Rockwood to the Order of Ontario for her March A drastic increase in traffic leaving a pile of rubbleowner Tanya Orton speed and volume in Brucedale Rockwood residents ask the moved her gift shop/art galley prompted some residents to MTO for safety improvements to Acton to avoid an antici-petition council for a lowered sidewalks and a pedestrian pated loss of business when speed limitcrossing at an open house to Highway 7 is reconstructed Apriltalk about provincial plans to through the villageHAPPY The 30 volunteers who reconstruct Highway 7 through A plaque commemorat-spent countless cold nights the villageing A.J. Casson and his 1926 caring for outdoor ice rinks in Julypainting of Rockwood is un-Rockwood are thanked by the The Township offers resi-veiled by Heritage Guelph/Township for their effortsdents rebates of $60 or $75 to Eramosa outside Heaven on Insane insurance rate replace their water-wasting 7NEW YEARincreases and a double-digit toilets with low-flow modelsOctoberconservation levy are behind Township Council agrees Five years after female a proposed 2.6 per cent tax to spend 10 cents-per cap-remains were found at rest increase for Guelph/Eramosa ital $1,200 to help defend stop Highway 7 west of Township ratepayersmaintenance standards used Rockwood, OPP hold a press fromMayto defend themselves against conference to try to help iden- Charges are laid under law -suits stemming from road tify the bodythe Occupational Health and conditions In a repeat of the last mu-Safety Act against an unnamed Augustnicipal election, Mayor Chris The Managementengineer in connection with Rockwood residents con-White is being challenged by the death of Rockwoods Isa-tinue their requests for a stop former mayor Clint Martinbel Warren, 14, who died when light at the south end of the Novembera washroom wall at a Guelph village and a pedestrian cross- A large solemn crowd and Staff ofball diamond collapsed on ing as the MTO discusses including veterans, students herplans to reconstruct Highway and citizens attend the Re- St. Johns Anglican Church 7 through the villagemembrance Day services at welcomes its new interim Rockwoods Brittany the Rockwood Cenotaph Wellington-Halton Hills MPP Ted Arnott continues to press the government to White davidrelease its long-proposed 10-year hospital plan, including BURLANDproposal for Georgetown and Sales RepresentativeTanning Fergus hospitalsDecember Thousands line the streets Co. Ltd.Happyof Rockwood for the an-nual parade of Lights which features farm equipment festooned with Christmas New Year!decorations and lights519-856-4240 Guelph/Eramosa Mayor Chris White is elected War-519-853-5155Rockwoodden of Wellington County, a two-year term that includes an annual salary of $79,226