Apply to Join a Woolwich Township Committee or Board Today!

The Township of Woolwich is looking for engaged citizens who are passionate about supporting our community to join a local committee or board.

We need committee members for:

• Board of Downtown Elmira Business Improvement Area

• Board of St. Jacobs Business Improvement Area

• Committee of Adjustment

• Dog Designation Appeal Committee

• Property Standards Committee

• Township of Woolwich Environmental Enhancement Committee (TWEEC)

• Woolwich Heritage Committee

The frequency of meetings and workloads varies from committee or board, for detailed information about the committees and how to apply, please visit the www.woolwich.ca/committees or contact the Clerks Office at 519-669-6005.

The application deadline is Friday, January 27, 2023. Appointments to Committees of Council will be approved in February 2023 for a term ending approximately in February 2027.

Interested but want more information? Contact Alex Smyth, Deputy Clerk by phone at 519-669-6005 or email at asmyth@woolwich.ca.

“It’s widely known that she was she was being bullied. Everybody in the high school: principals, vice principals, teachers, students, guidance counselors, even the police knew about it. And nobody did anything about it.”

Previous Alisha Wilson Memorial bonspiels have taken place in Alliston and Lindsay, towns where Irwin had also worked as an ice technician.

“Last year, our overall number of counselling requests have risen proportionately between children and youth sessions and adult sessions, with an increase across the board.”

She said to address this increase in need for children and youth therapy sessions, they’ve hired more therapists, and increased the number of parenting workshops and children and youth therapy groups on offer.

“I think that children and youth are facing stressors and are facing

There will also be a silent auction ongoing. The absolute deadline for registration is January 28. People can contact Irwin via email at awmcurling@ hotmail.com.

“My goal here is to help today’s youth in our community. I want to help them to be able to have the support that they need now and in the future, just to let them know that it’s OK. If they need help, to ask for it. You hear that all the time, but you can never say it enough.”

ROBERTS: Taking more risks in the midst of a crisis

→ FROM 12 acres, will need to bolster production. And now, the spotlight is being recast. Crop innovations are once again a huge focus.

Bill Gates has often said he favours technology to help solve agricultural problems. You might expect him to say that, given his background. And so it’s not unexpected that we’d hear the same from CEO Cornelius.

He says new technology can help Africa “leapfrog” towards more efficient and sustainable production.

“Just as the sophistication of today’s mobile phones are a result of multiple technologies converging to overtake the use of landlines, so too are advanced agricultural innovations reaching a level of maturity with potentially profound implications for the continent’s food security,” he told Agri-Pulse.

It’s not all pie-in-thesky dreaming. Cornelius pointed to Nigeria’s adoption of pod borer-re - sistant cowpea, which uses biotechnology to help the crop naturally fend off one of its most pervasive pests. He says other crop innovations are in the works to improve plants’ natural biological processes through genetic improvement. observerxtra.com/letters

Risk is always present and always a criticism of technology. Society though accepts more risk when it’s in crisis. For Africa, it looks like that scenario could indeed unfold.