New Grey County Warden for 2025 term Blue Mountains Mayor Andrea Matrosovs, right, and Southgate Mayor Brian Milne, who served as warden for 2023-24. (supplied photo)
Town of the Blue Mountains Mayor Andrea Matrosovs is Grey County’s new warden.
She was acclaimed to the role and accepted the chain of office at the inaugural meeting for the 2025 county council term Tuesday.
“It is here by working together that we can move the needle in our constituents’ lives,” Matrosovs says in her inaugural address. “Since beginning on council in the Town of the Blue Mountains, my mantra has been to create community for all ages and stages of life. We here have that opportunity at the county level, to make a difference in the lives of all ages and stages.”
Matrosovs spoke about Grey County municipalities working together on “shared goals and priorities” of the county. She mentioned expanding paramedic services with bases in Durham and Feversham, and the major Rockwood Terrace long-term care home reconstruction project in Durham.
“My neighbours across the Townline are in Grey Highlands, but we are one community of Duncan and Egypt. That’s the way we live, work, play, raise our children and grandchildren, and retire. We live in one municipality and work or recreate or go to school in another,” Matrosovs says. “It is what we consider here at our county table. How do we offer a seamless livelihood to those who live in every corner of our county?”
She will succeed Southgate Mayor Brian Milne, who served as the county’s warden for the past two years.
Matrosovs is currently in her first term on Grey County council, after being elected mayor of the Town of the Blue Mountains in 2022. She served as a Blue Mountains councillor from 2018-22.
She is the first Grey County warden from the Town of the Blue Mountains in more than a decade, according to a county release.
Matrosovs also becomes the third woman to serve as warden, after Arlene Wright in 2010-11 and Lois Urstadt in 1982.
“Outside of her municipal work, Warden Matrosovs worked as a teacher, first at the high school and later college levels,” a statement from Grey County explains. “She is a member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 281 in Clarksburg and enjoys getting involved in local environmental sustainability projects.”