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The site of Canada’s oldest remaining ‘poorhouse’ was the venue for a unique announcement this morning. The Wellington County Museum Museum built in 1877 as a government run House of Industry (AKA poorhouse) hosted the launch event for “Vital Signs – Centre Wellington 2015”. Vital Signs is a ten-year old nation-wide community assessment program led by Community Foundations of Canada. This is the first Vital Signs assessment for Centre-Wellington and people from across the region packed Aboyne Hall to witness the release of the inaugural Vital Signs report.

The report reflects the excellent work of many community leaders including Andrew Goldie (Township of Centre Wellington), Paul Holyoke (Social Justice Group), John Kissick (Artist), Barbara Lee (Elora Arts Council), Ron McKinnon (Community Resource Centre), Maddy Smith (Youth Representative), Paul Young (Young Solutions Family Counselling), Toni Ellis, Carolyn Skimson, Susan Thorning, Jean Prichard, Jason Thompson, Nancy Wood, Erin Pratley (Project Manager), Carly Jenkins (Graphic Designer), J. Raymond Soucy (Photographer) and many others.

Thanks to generous support from “The Wellington Advertiser” local citizens will receive a copy of the Vital Signs report with their newspaper this week. We think they will especially enjoy reading the “Belonging and Leadership” section which profiles the positive impact volunteers, engaged citizens and increasing charitable donations all have in making Centre-Wellington a caring community.

The Rural Ontario Institute (ROI) intends to profile one Ontario Vital Signs community in 2016 as part of our Measuring Rural Community Vitality initiative. If you would like more information about Vital Signs and a link to the Centre-Wellington Vital Signs report just click here