Systems student is Newsmaker of the year in Guelph.

Friday, January 1, 2016

‘This issue needed some leadership’

Guelph Mercury Newsmaker of the Year: Jim Estill

​GUELPH — As a teenager Jim Estill had to give up his bedroom to Ugandan refugees.

He wasn't immediately happy with his parents' decision to open the Estill home in Woodstock up to two young men who were among the tens of thousands expelled from Uganda in 1972 by dictator Idi Amin. [Read more].