Join us for a virtual Town Hall to further discuss the Town of Erin's Wastewater project. We understand that residents and business owners may have questions or concerns surrounding the project and we hope to address them during this Town Hall.

Panelists include: Mayor Allan Alls, Nathan Hyde - CAO, Nick Colucci - Director of Infrastructure Services, Paul Evans - Director of Building / Enforcement Services & Chief Building Official, Gary Scandlan - Watson & Associates, and Gary Thorne - WSP.

The Virtual Town Hall will be conducted through WebEx and participation requires registration.

To register, please click the link below or email [email protected] or call 519.855.4407 EXT. 239.

COVID-19 has disrupted how we typically operate and many of you have faced extreme financial hardship. As the Province works on restarting the economy, the Town of Erin is working to promote our vibrant business community and encourage shoppers to support Erin owned businesses.

The Shop Local Series encourages shoppers to Eat Local, Use Local and Buy Local

The SC+ program is an advanced 4 month program designed to source out pain points within your business; define and design a customized implementation plan matched with up to $5,000 in grant money to get the problem solved so you can get back to building your business!

Registration Deadline

Through this program, Innovation Guelph offers the greatest acceleration for women-founded scale-ups across Canada who are ready to advance their businesses!

If your Canadian company is scalable, women-led or co-founded, and generating a minimum of $200,000, you can qualify for this program.

Central Counties would like to offset some of the costs associated with PPE's, by offering to pay 50% of your expenses, up to a maximum of $1,000 ($2,000 total expense). Plexiglass, sanitizing stations, masks, stickers, etc.

Any Town of Erin private or not-for-profit business in the hospitality and recreation sectors is eligible.  This includes, but is not limited to, accommodators, attractions, tour operators, specialty retail, restaurants, art/culture spaces, museums, heritage sites, conservation/nature areas, etc.

Applications will be reviewed and approved on a first come, first awarded basis.

The Guelph-Wellington Smart Cities initiative, in collaboration with 10C, announced the Guelph-Wellington Urban Agriculture Challenge (GWUAC). This program, led by Harve$t Impact—a social financing program of 10C and a core pillar of the Our Food Future—is calling for projects that will support circular economic recovery and accelerate food production, getting more food to the table with less environmental impact.

The three categories are:

1. Transformative Urban Agriculture: $70,000 for one innovative, food growing project in an urban or town setting.

2. Scaling Out Community Agriculture: $20,000 for a food growing project that has the potential to grow community wide.

3. Shovel and Fork Fund: $2,000 each for six initiatives that support community food growing.

Application Deadline

Fall Flavours Map - Farm Visits - Tours - Pumpkins - Corn Mazes - Harvest Foods - Fall Decorations - virtual workshops and more!

We are excited to host our fall favourite event – the Fall Rural Romp in a new format this year. We have lined up over three weeks of in-person and virtual farm and food experiences, events, and fall foods to explore on your own time

From now until October 12 (Thanksgiving weekend) plan your personal fall food and harvest fun experience.

Stay up to date with the Town of Erin's efforts to reduce the spread of COVID-19, while ensuring businesses and residents are continuing to receive service excellence.