What’s open and closed this Thanksgiving long weekend

Here’s a look at what services are available and what’s open and closed in and around Waterloo Region for the Thanksgiving weekend.

Waterloo Region

Grand River Transit: Operating on a holiday service schedule.

No changes to curbside collection of garbage, blue box, green bin and yard waste.

Open

• Select pharmacies
• Some Beer Store, LCBO and Wine Rack locations
• The Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Schneider Haus National Historic Site, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• McDougall Cottage Historic Site, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Region of Waterloo International Airport operations
• Service First Call Centre
• The Warming, Cooling and Clean Air space at 150 Main Street in Cambridge will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Closed

• All regional administrative offices
• Most grocery stores and banks
• Transfer stations for residential drop-off at Cambridge and Waterloo Waste Management sites
• Home child care offices
• Region of Waterloo International Airport administration offices
• All libraries
• Public Health Clinics at 99 Regina St. S. in Waterloo, 20 Weber St. E. in Kitchener and 150 Main St. in Cambridge
• Administration for Sunnyside Seniors’ Services
• The Sunnyside Wellness Centre
• Community Alzheimer day programs in Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo
• Welcome Spaces at 99 Regina St. S. in Waterloo, 20 Weber St. E. in Kitchener and 150 Main St. in Cambridge
• GRT Customer Service Centres at 35 Ainslie St. S., Cambridge; 105 King St. E., Kitchener and 250 Strasburg Rd., Kitchener

Waterloo

Open

• RIM Park Manulife Sportsplex & Healthy Living Centre at 4 p.m. for regular programming

Closed

• Waterloo City Hall
• Tenant offices and buildings
• Albert McCormick Community Centre
• Manulife Soccer and Sports Centre
• Moses Springer Community Centre
• Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex and Swimplex
• Conestoga Mall
• Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex and Swimplex (WMRC)
• WMRC - Community Pavilion (Adult Recreation Centre)
• Waterloo Service Centre
• Bechtel Park Manulife Soccer and Sports Centre

Kitchener

Open

• Kitchener City Hall
• Activa Sportsplex
• Sportsworld Arena
• Lions Arena
• Grand River Arena
• Public swim at the Grand River Recreation Complex

Closed

• Fairview Park Mall
• Kitchener City Hall Service Centre
• All city community centres
• All city pools except Grand River Recreation Complex
• All Kitchener public libraries
• Kitchener Market
• The Kitchener Memorial Auditorium
• The Don Mclaren Arena
• Queensmount Arena 

Cambridge

Open

• W.G. Johnson Centre pool - 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m
• John Dolson Centre pool - 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m

Closed

• Cambridge City Hall offices
• Cemetery and fire admin buildings
• William E. Pautler
• Allan Reuter Centre
• Cambridge Centre for the Arts
• David Durward Centre
• All city arenas
• Cambridge Farmers’ Market
• All public libraries

Guelph

Transit: operating on a holiday schedule

• 99 Mainline route runs from 9:15 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. on a 30-minute service schedule
• All other routes become on demand

Closed

• Guelph City Hall
• City administrative offices
• All recreation centres
• Stone Road Mall
• Waste Resource Innovation Centre
• All public libraries
• Centennial Arena
• Exhibition Arena
• River Run Centre
• McCrae House
• Guelph Sports Dome
• Guelph Civic Museum

Brantford

Brantford Transit and Brantford Lift: there will be no service on Monday.

Waste collection resumes as normal.

Open

• Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre, select facilities
• The Mohawk Street Landfill

Closed

• Brantford City Hall, customer service and the parking enforcement office
• Lynden Park Mall
• All City of Brantford libraries from Saturday to Monday
• The Brantford Cemetery main office
• Branlyn Community Centre
• Doug Snooks Eagle Place Community Centre all weekend
• T.B. Costain/SC Johnson Community Centre
• Woodman Park Community Centre all weekend
• TD Civic Centre
• Lions Park Arena
• The Ontario Works Brantford-Brant main office
• Bell Homestead National Historic Site