{"id":38847,"date":"2021-02-12T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=38847"},"modified":"2021-03-10T17:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:14:42","slug":"the-great-debate-ends-high-healthy-happy-will-remain-on-mount-forests-water-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/the-great-debate-ends-high-healthy-happy-will-remain-on-mount-forests-water-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"The great debate ends: ‘High-Healthy-Happy’ will remain on Mount Forest’s water tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since September 2020, the chatter about preserving Mount Forest\u2019s town slogan, \u2018High-Healthy-Happy\u2019 has only grown louder.<\/p>\n

Pushback from residents began when the town updated their two entryway signs<\/a> to say, \u2018Simply Explore\u2019 and removed the \u2018High-Healthy-Happy\u2019 slogan.<\/p>\n

A petition went around for the reinstatement of the \u2018High-Heathy-Happy\u2019 slogan, but not long after it was shut down because someone vandalized one of the new signs.<\/p>\n

In an email to 88.7 The River, Wellington North Coun. Sherry Burke said the chatter grew even louder after the Wellington Advertiser ran a story covering their Public Meeting Budget Presentation for 2021, which highlighted the rehabilitation of the water tower in Mount Forest.<\/p>\n

The water tower is the town\u2019s most prominent landmark, and it is the only thing remaining in town with the \u2018High-Healthy-Happy\u2019<\/a> slogan on it.<\/p>\n

Coun. Burke said she received many emails regarding the fate of the slogan that greets people on the water tower as they arrive to town from the south.<\/p>\n

Mount Forest resident Kayla Young, who has lived in the town for 17 years, wrote a letter expressing her concerns about losing the town\u2019s slogan off the water town to all four members of council, and to Mount Forest Mayor Andy Lennox on Jan. 13, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the core of it all, it\u2019s kind of like taking it away would be like taking away our Statue of Liberty, everything that fundamentally is Mount Forest is in that slogan,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 25, 2021, Coun. Burke put a motion forward to keep the town\u2019s slogan, town name, and altitude on any future rehabilitation of the water tower.<\/p>\n

Coun. Burke said she received a lot of support from residents for the motion she put forward.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the motion was passed unanimously.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody seems to know exactly how the motto came about, I have checked with our local historians, some think our motto has been around since the late 1930s, and others [think it came] through a naming contest by a former mayor and MPP,\u201d Burke said.<\/p>\n

The letter to council Young wrote was also passed along to the editor of the Wellington Advertiser and published for all to see on Jan. 27, 2021.<\/p>\n

Young said when she posted her published letter in a local Facebook group for residents of Mount Forest, there was nothing but an overwhelming amount of positive feedback about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you\u2019ve lived here, and once you\u2019ve felt the community spirit, and the community togetherness, and yes, we argue and bicker [\u2026], but it\u2019s like one, great big huge family that comes together when there is an important topic [\u2026], it\u2019s high, healthy and happy, and that\u2019s what it\u2019s about,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n

Young added that her next crusade is to try to get the town\u2019s slogan back onto the entryway signs.<\/p>\n

Mount Forest resident Kayla Young:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\nhttps:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edited-Clip-Kayla.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since September 2020, the chatter about preserving Mount Forest\u2019s town slogan, \u2018High-Healthy-Happy\u2019 has only grown louder. Pushback from residents began when the town updated their two entryway signs to say, \u2018Simply Explore\u2019 and removed the \u2018High-Healthy-Happy\u2019 slogan. A petition went around for the reinstatement of the \u2018High-Heathy-Happy\u2019 slogan, but not long after it was shut…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":38859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,225],"tags":[6029,1215,6027,4699,1574,1573,4697,6028],"radio":[1376],"origine":[267,1369,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38847"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=38847"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=38847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}