The “Campus in Community” event, from the university’s Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship, will take place June 20 from 6:30-8 p.m. and will feature an informal lecture and discussion on the topic of work-life balance, a news release said.

It will include M. Gloria González Morales, speaking on how to be mindful of the moment and savour the positive aspects of work, and Donna S. Lero, discussing work-at-home arrangements, the release said.

Guests are asked to RSVP for the event online at 10cardenlectures.eventbrite.ca or by calling 519-824-4120, ext. 58051.

The university and Centennial pools will be among the many pools hosting the World’s Largest Swimming Lesson on June 18. The initiative was started in the U.S. to send a message that drowning deaths are preventable and to educate people on where and how to learn to swim, Marlins coach Kendra Burton said in an email.

The event aims to get the world involved to set a world record, she said.

“We will be doing a 30-minute lesson and then submitting the numbers to be counted for the world record,” she said. “All instructors and participants count.”

Anyone interested in taking part is asked to email coachkendra@rogers.com or bfisher@uoguelph.ca. More info is also available at worldslargestswimminglesson.org.

Milestones: 150 Years of the Ontario Veterinary College includes photos and details from the opening of the first veterinary college in Canada and the United States to today’s OVC, a news release said. The book will be available for purchase during Alumni Weekend, and later on Amazon.com.

Co-authors Lisa Cox, a PhD history candidate, and OVC associate dean Peter Conlon dug through the university archives and interviewed former faculty and donors to find the 150 most interesting stories, the release said.

“I think the biggest challenge when creating a book like this is to determine the balance between historical and modern,” Cox said in the release.

This is the second book about the OVC’s history. The first, written for the 100-year anniversary, had very few images, while the new book has many more.

The university’s Alumni Weekend includes campus tours, the U of G Alumni Association annual general meeting, the President’s Lunch, the Milestone Reception & Dinner, Alumni Pub, and more.

The university’s Class of 1963 will be honoured, with all 50th reunion classes invited to the President’s Lunch. All graduates of the Class of 1988, who graduated 25 years ago, will be honoured at the Milestone Reception and Dinner, and they’ll be able to finish off the night with a “Lost in the ’80s Pub Night” at The Brass Taps.

New this year is a hospitality tent located in front of the W. F. Mitchell Athletic Centre.

The second annual Father’s Day Ale Trail, on Sunday June 16 from noon to 5 p.m., includes stops at Wellington Brewery, F&M Brewery and The Woolwich Arrow, a news release said.

It will be a chance for beer lovers to meet the brewmasters and sample year-round offerings, as well as exclusive “one-off” beers, the release said.

These small-batch offerings include a Sour Cherry Brown Ale, Shangri-La (an American-style India Pale Ale) and Pan Ontario Ale (a barrel-aged blend of five Ontario craft beers).

They also include a collaboration beer made by the brewmasters at Wellington Brewery and F&M brewery that uses locally grown hops from Guelph’s Ignatius Farm. 


The Father’s Day event marks the start of Ontario Craft Beer Week, a week-long celebration of locally produced craft beer.

Ontario Craft Beer Week is “a chance for craft brewers and beer lovers to get together and celebrate the great beer produced here in Ontario by local independently owned breweries,” Wellington Brewery vice-president Brent Davies said in the release.

Tickets for the Father’s Day Ale Trail include samples at each spot and busing between locations.

For more information, visit: www.wellingtonbrewery.ca or www.ocbweek.ca

The Courage for Carly concert will be held June 15 at 8 p.m. at Guelph Little Theatre in honour of Carly Hillis, who died at age 14 from Ewing’s Sarcoma.

“There are no words to express the devastation when we heard there was no treatment,” Carly’s mother Cindy Hillis said in a news release, speaking of Carl’s diagnosis at age 13.

“Courage for Carly” became a statement of hope used during the teen’s fight with the disease, the release said.

The fundraising concert will benefit the Ewing’s Cancer Foundation of Canada and will feature veteran singer-songwriter Jude Vadala, Noah and the Roaches from the Guelph Jam School, Elivia and Anita Cazzola, and Sonia Cazzola.

Tickets are available at the door, at The Bookshelf, at Shoppers Drug Mart on Clair Road, by calling 519-766-0029 or by emailing judevadala@gmail.com.

The event will see more than 300 works of student art on display and available for purchase from Sunday to Wednesday June 19.

The volunteer-led art project was developed by a group of Victory school parents hoping to bring creativity into the classroom while expanding the students’ notion of community, said a news release.

Art crawl venues include 10 Carden St., 5 Douglas St. (Pop-up Gallery), The Albion Hotel (second floor) and The Woolwich Arrow.

Most of the works will be available for purchase on a pay-what-you-can basis, with all proceeds going to charity.

Sales will be processed at 5 Douglas St. on Sunday from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., or Monday to Wednesday from 3:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Other venues will be open during their regular hours of operation.

The talks will include demonstrations on a variety of garden and horticultural topics, and run from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on alternating Saturdays until September, a news release said.

Gab sessions will be held at the Guelph Enabling Garden in Riverside Park at 689 Woolwich St. N.

For more information email mgguelph@hotmail.com.

The event will run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the church, 400 Speedvale Ave. E., and will include the car show, a barbecue from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and a variety of other family-friendly activities.

Kids can enjoy games, bouncy castles, face-painting, road hockey and musical entertainment.

For more information, call 519-836-2132 or email church@crestwicke.org.