Jun 01, 2022

These columns from our community reporters are updated every week.

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Arden
by Wanda Harrison

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Battersea/Storrington
by Amanda Pantrey

Tickets are still available for High Tea happening at the Storrington Lions Club on Saturday, June 4th. Tickets are $20 per person and can be reserved by calling 613-353-2257.

The next community food drive is Friday, June 10th at the Storrington Lions Club. Drop off is from 1:00pm – 5:00pm. If you’re in need of the food bank, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call the Battersea United Church at 613-353-6609.

We’re having a Pumpkin Festival planning meeting coming up on Monday, June 13th at 7:00pm. Fresh faces always welcome and appreciated! Call or email me for more information.

It’s back! Enjoy a fish fry with strawberry shortcakes for dessert hosted by the Battersea United Church on June 18th at 5pm. Plates are $20 per-person. Call 613-353-2846 for more information.

Why did the man love his barbecue? Because it was the grill of his dreams.

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Cloyne - Northbrooke
by Nancy Skipper

The NAEC Parent Council is inviting all on June 2, 2022 for a community fun fair! There will be games, prizes, food and lots of entertainment! This event will be at the Flinton Recreational Centre. For more information, check out their FB page. “Attention community members and business owners! Our Fun Fair is taking place in just over 2 weeks, and we are looking for donations for our silent auction. Volunteers will be visiting many of our local businesses this week, but if we haven’t contacted you yet, and you’d like to donate, please comment below or PM us! Thank-you so much to all of our local community for always supporting our wonderful school!”

Bon Echo is currently closed for camping and day-use due to extensive damage caused by the storm on Saturday, May 21. The closure is estimated to extend until June 5th.

The Garden Club invites you to hear Anne Leggatt speak about “Beautiful plants that spread, "Big Bad & Beautiful, Beware has been Recreated" on Wednesday June 8, 2022 at the Barrie Community Hall in Cloyne beginning at 7:00pm.

The Lions Club of Land O'Lakes will be hosting a Dance, "Dancing Through the Decades" on Saturday, June 11, 2022 from 8pm to 1am at the Lions Hall in Northbrook. There will be a DJ, light snack at 11pm, cash bar & door prizes for only $15.00/person (advance tickets sales only- NO tickets will be sold at the door). To purchase your tickets or if you have any questions, please contact Lion Maude at 905-449-2160 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Tickets can also be purchased from Lion Red - 613-336-8011, Lion Pam - 613-827-6700 and at the Kuriosity Shop in Northbrook. Time to dust off those dancin' shoes and have some fun! Limited number of tickets to be SOLD... Don't be disappointed... Buy yours NOW!! You can now purchase your tickets at Finnegan’s General Store in Cloyne.

Come and enjoy a great lasagna lunch with others from the community at the Northbrook Diner’s Club on July 26, 2022 at the Lions Community Hall for only $10.00. The Land O’Lakes Community Services needs a minimum of 30 people to put on this event. Please reserve your spot by calling Shelby ay 613-336-8934 ext. 229.

Land O' Lakes Community Services is looking for volunteer cooks to cook at Flinton and Northbrook on a monthly basis. 

Interested in being a vendor at the Lions Club Farmers Market in Northbrook?  Please contact Carol Kavish at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ATTN ALL RUNNERS OR ASPIRING RUNNERS; (edit: First meet up Tues May 24th, join group https://www.facebook.com/groups/northof7runclub/) This would be for ALL LEVELS of runners from beginner to elite. We would start off by meeting once a week (thinking Tuesday evenings) for our speed/interval training and I would program weekly runs (easy, threshold, hills, and long runs) for you to complete on your own or with other run club members. As the run club grows, we would look at adding more group run days!

It is illegal to deliberately harm turtles.

Deliberately harming turtles carries fines of up to $25,000.00 or 1 year in jail.

Most people try to avoid hurting turtles on roads, but there are a few people that will go out of their way to run over turtles- and these individuals can decimate a population quickly, especially as it takes decades for turtles to replace themselves. If you have witnessed an infraction and have evidence as above, call the OMNRF TIPS line at 1-877-847-7667. If, however, you don't have sufficient evidence to warrant a call to the conservation officers, please report the incident and provide any photos to Turtle Guardians through our website reporting portal: www.turtleguardians.ca

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Denbigh
Angela Bright

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Godfrey
Kelli McRobert

Saturday June 4, from 9-1 : Grandmothers by the Lake Plant Sale. Contact Sondra Feasby, 375-6192, Carol Little 613-583-0314.

Thank you to South Frontenac Fire Rescue, Perth Road, Hall 6, for sharing their space for those who were without power for an extended period of time during the recent Wind Storm.

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Harlowe
Marie White

No column; check back next week!

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Harrowsmith
Marilyn Goodberry

Introducing our new Harrowsmith Reporter, Gregg Hamlin has stepped forwards to provide news from the Harrowsmith area. Readers are invited to send news to  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 613-376-6665. Welcome, Gregg.

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Henderson
Jean Brown

Wow - wasn’t that a storm last week, and the hydro outage prevented my sending news in. Sorry, faithful readers!! Special thanks to our many responders and all who helped - some of whom came in from London, Bracebridge, and beyond. Our local firefighters offered water at their fire halls, and everyone looked out for others. We did “right some good” and then some!!

Henderson United Church is excited to offer a yard sale on Sat, June 18 and June 25 from 8-12 noon at the Henderson Hall. Please start setting aside your donations of gently used items and make an appointment (Sheila Deline 613-336-2467) to bring them in to the hall from May 29- June 13. After Covid isolation and recent storm it will be a fantastic break to visit while shopping and sharing, and helping out Henderson United Church. Yeah, I can’t wait!! Your support will enable the little white church on the corner to offer weekly worship, prayers, funeral coverage, outreach to the community and the world, and to serve the community.

Please set aside Sat, June 11 for a graveside celebration of life for the late Barb and Jim Whaley at Elmwood Cemetery (412 River Rd, Corbyville, ON) at 11:30am. Family members Kelly, Donna, Brad, Howard and loved ones invite their folks' friends to come and honour their memories. We remember Barb and Jim with fondness as our local mail delivery people so full of fun and jokes. We thank God for their lives.

Don't miss the Land O' Lakes Garden Club's Annual Plant Sale this Saturday, May 28th at 9am, 1444 Hwy 506, Cloyne featuring locally grown tomato plants (beefsteak, amish paste, chadwick (cherry), and Brandywine. This not for profit group is super duper, offering community support through maintaining 2 Community Hall Gardens, the Gardens at the Pine Meadow Nursing Home, the Cloyne Pioneer Cemetery and 34 Planter Boxes in the area. As well, they host a monthly book club virtually, and a walking group when weather, bugs, and health regulations permit.​​​​​​​​​

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Inverary
by Judy Borovskis

Reservations Open for the High Tea on June 4th  at the Storrington Lions Club. A Jubilee Celebration!  Cost per person is $20.  Just a few spots left!  To reserve, call Shirley O'Neil at 613-353-2257.  All profit will benefit the non-funded Child Life Specialist Program at KGH which gives support to patients in pediatrics as well as their families.

Food Bank!  Next Food Drive is June 10th.  Drop your donations at the Lion's Hall in Sunbury between 1 and 5 pm.  The need exists and any donation helps.  Suggested items are:  bags of frozen vegetables and canned vegetables, cheese, frozen meat, eggs, milk, canned fruit, various pastas and pasta or rice sides, pancake mix & syrup, fresh vegetables & fruit, butter, cereal, bread and peanut butter.

Voting Day is June 2, 2022.

Pilates & Yoga Classes return to Inverary United Church Hall beginning Monday June 6th.

Coming up!  Fathers' Day is Sunday, June 19th and first day of Summer is June 21.

Soon, school will be finished!  Students graduating grade 8 and high school students needing volunteer hours are welcome to help out at Ken Garrett Memorial Park.  Canteen is now open most week day evenings when ball games are on and also there are a number of tournament weekends coming up.  Help is needed in the canteen and also to work around the grounds.  Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your name and contact information to put your name on a volunteer list. 

Local Talent – Open Mic Night on Tuesday, June 28th from 6 to 9pm at the Coffee House at the Italo-Canadian Club.  If you want to perform, call 613-542-9323 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Everyone is invited to enjoy the talent show. Snacks available for purchase.

Where are they?  Black flies are gone, mosquitoes are here... Where is the army of dragon flies?

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Maberly-Bolingbroke
Karen Prytula

Annual Lobsterfest – Saturday, June 4 at the ABC Hall. For more information, contact Lynne Lang This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by calling 613-273-8834.

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Mississippi
by Pearl Killingbeck

Well, we were almost living like the Ice Storm in 1998 all over again, except it is spring and not winter.  All we could hear were the humming generators. What a wonderful sound!  I will not complain about the whole week. I was lucky enough to get a generator from my Elphin neighbours, Bob and Elaine.  Lucky Elphin people – they never lost power.  Elaine phoned every day to see what I would like for supper and brought me hot water to have a hot sponge bath and lots of food to make me fat.  Thank you for everything.  Thank you, Bob, for taking my car into Ford to get some work done on it.  It was gone for two weeks.  Thanks for bringing it back home to me on Friday.  I think my car is all better now after its spring tune-up.

A very special thank you to my son, Rick, for all the tender loving care I have been getting from him this past week.  Bev Ladurantaye came and stayed with me for 4 days – it was so nice to have someone to talk to when the power was off.  The power was out for one week.  And for that week, Rick brought me hot coffee, breakfast, supper, and a tank of gas every day.  One day, he had to wait in line for over two hours as there were so many people needing gas for their generators.  I gained 4 pounds last week from all the food he brought to me - pizza, foot long subs, hamburgers, spaghetti and garlic bread, Chinese food, and I can’t remember what else.  I was eating better this past week than when I was by myself before the storm.  Thank you to all the people who called to see if I needed anything – Alice, Jean Brown, Shawna, Wendy, Harriett and all the others who I cannot remember.  I was lucky enough to have my fridge and freezer plugged in and also my TV.  Nothing spoiled except some carrots, cabbage, etc which will go to feed Harriett’s deer.  It was one long holiday weekend that people will not soon forget. 

As I have not had news for a month, I only have some small news to put in.  Sorry this is belated.

Sympathy to Lorna and family on the passing of Stan Sargeant.  Stan will be so missed. 

I have a few May birthdays:  Drayson McMunn, Brandy Armstrong, my great granddaughters Gaylene and Rheanna, Morgan Wark, Maddie Morrow, Lorie Ryder, Jeannie Kelso, Edna Thomas, Janet Greenley, Rick Morey and best wishes to anyone else celebrating. 

A little boy, Mathew, who everybody has fallen in love with (Bob and Elaine’s grandson) was home from the hospital for the long weekend.  Hope you had a wonderful weekend with your family, Matthew.  You looked great and hope you can be home for good soon.  Everyone loves Matthew. 

Coffee time is continuing at the Snow Road Community Centre on Friday mornings from 10:00 to noon.  Their first Games Night had to be cancelled due to the power outage but will be held on Tuesday, May 31st at 7:00pm.  Everyone is welcome at these events. 

Hope soon that life will be back to normal for people.  I know some people still have to wait.  Mother Nature and God are in some kind of feud and I think Mother Nature won this time.  Hope she is done for awhile.  Once again, thanks to everybody who helped me out during this crisis.

I want to thank all the Hydro One workers for getting us all (or at least most of us) back on line.  You have worked very hard and we are so thankful for all the work you have done.  Hope you can soon get back home and have a rest.

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Ompah
by Linda Rush & Marily Seitz

As I write this column on Monday morning, most of Ompah has power now but many outlying areas are still without.  I hear generators running along my road.  Many thanks to the township road crews who worked hard on the long weekend to clear the roads.  Also thanks to the many community members who cleared roads and are helping out their neighbours.  Thanks, also, to the Hydro Ontario crews who are working long hours to restore power to our community.

'There be dragons!' - dragonflies, that is.  My yard is filled with them.  So far they have not made a big difference to the black fly population, but hopefully soon I can retire the bug jacket for another year.

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Parham-Tichborne
by Elijah Abrams

Well, baseball season is upon us and it is so great to see all ages of boys and girls giving it their all for their teams.  Up and coming games at Parham are as follows: Monday, June 6 6:30 - our U9 team, June 7, 630 our U11 team and June 9 at 7pm our U19 Team. Monday, June 13 at 6:30 our U9 team, then on Tuesday at 8:30 our Junior Men's team.

Monday, June 20 at 6:30, our Grasshoppers play and Tuesday, June 21 at 630, our U11 team plays followed by the Junior Men's team at 8:30 and Wednesday, June 22 at 6:30, the grasshoppers will be hitting the field again!  Please come out and see our future athletes and cheer them on, although we have to report that the mosquitos are still hungry so be prepared also bring your jacket and blanket as the evenings are cool at dusk time and the seats are hard, too!!  Canteen is available and the poutine is the best, so many say....

Congratulations to Samantha Ferguson on her recent marriage.  Unfortunately Grandpa (Eric Wagar) as well as Uncle Guy and Aunt Carol tested positivie for Covid shortly after.  

Best wishes to Collin Hamilton & Courtney Meeks, who will be exchanging vows shortly, also Jordan Lowery and Ashley Barrie who are getting hitched on Sept 24th. Also best wishes to Derek Teal and Shania Watson, who are getting married on the same day!  We wish all these couples the best.

On a sadder note, the family of Joe LaPointe announce his passing so please keep this family in your thoughts and prayers.  Friday Night Bingo players will miss Joe. He was the long time treasurer for Mayflower #297 Oddfellow Lodge here in Parham.  Another branch has fallen from our family tree as Wally Wisteard, our nephew/cousin, also passed after a recent hospital stay.

Thinking of you to Natasha (Lowery) LaFaso who had the misfortune to break her leg.  Tough to be in a cast when the weather is becoming warmer.  Also to Michael Morrow, who slipped from his cart.

Congratulations to all students who graduated recently and to those who will be very soon.  Best of luck as you venture to the next step in your journey of life, whether it's continuing education or joining the work force.

Interested players are geared up to try their hand at this "fairly new" sport or at least to our area.  The court in Parham needs a coat of asphalt to help the "bounce" of the "wiffle ball". We are looking for ways to make this happen. Any ideas?  Wednesday Euchres are still running at the Sharbot Lake Legion from 1 to 3.  Loads of fun.

Happy Travellers are looking for new members. If you are interested, please give Charlotte Brown a call 613-375-6337.  Meetings are the 3rd Wednesday with Pot Luck at 12, meeting to follow.

Sad to see the damage done from the storm to the old mill in Parham.  Kudos to all who helped clean up the damages so quickly in our area.  Ticks are out in full force.  Be sure to check if you've been working in garden or doing outdoor activities.

Special birthday wishes to Sherry Whan earlier this month.  Good to see Mary Howes out and about, but please be careful as the traffic seems to be pretty heavy and there is not much space on the side of the road for your walker. Maybe you should think of wearing a safety vest.~Christine & Colleen

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Perth Road
by Peter Bird

PERTH ROAD UNITED CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS:

In-person services continue - Sundays at 10am, 5614 Perth Road Crescent. Everyone is welcome. Masks are still required and Covid-19 protocols are still in place.

At present, we are continuing the search process to hire a new minister but will continue with Supply/Lay Ministers or personnel until a suitable candidate is found.

BIRTHDAY WISHES to those who have birthdays this week.

PERTH ROAD SUNDAY SCHOOL HALL CRAFT/BAKE/PLANT SALE – Thanks to all who took part and donated.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE LELAND HELPING HAND will be starting their 4 hand Euchre games on June 9th at 1:00pm at Harris Park Hall in Perth Road Village. All are welcome. Also looking for new members. Please contact Peggy Newport 613-353-2635.

PERTH ROAD CRAFTERS meet every Wednesday: 9:30am – 11:30am at Harris Park Hall, 5612 Perth Road Cres. Cost is $2.00. If you’re a first timer, check us out for free. Please contact Cheryl Bird 613-353-7303.

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Plevna
by Rhonda Watkins

No column; check back next week!

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Sydenham
by Karen Brawley

I’ve got the dirt on a new business in the area… I needed some triple mix and it’s got my veggies thriving so if gardening is your thing/ you need soil/mulch, give Hamill Forestry a try, located at 3056 Sydenham road.   Many of our local businesses can help us with our green thumb. Foodland has some veggie plants this year, Home Hardware has seeds and other needs, and as always, the knowledgeable crew at Silverbrook Garden centre can help you get your hands dirty and get growing.  There are many others, I’m sure, in our area.  It’s nice to see people getting into growing vegetables.  A great local hobby, and lots of seasoned gardeners to get advice from.

Wishing Samantha Orr (nee Allen) a happy birthday on June 1st. Sorry, Sam, I had to do it… Also wishing my mother-in-law Belva a happy birthday on June 2nd (as well as myself, who shares the birthday date - happy birthday to me... haha).  Hope all those who celebrate June birthdays have special ones.  

Don’t forget to get out and vote on June 2nd if you haven’t already done so. Polls are open from 9-9.

Canada Day is a month away. Let’s make this year's celebration at the Point the one to remember.  Volunteers are always needed and appreciated to help that day, so if you have some time and are able to help out, that’d be appreciated.  Let’s show how proud we are to be Canadian, decorate the village, join the parade, and the festivities at the Point.  Our Santa Claus parade was epic. Let’s get our red and white on.

Are you an artist or interested in art? Please consider joining a proposed arts council at the Grace Centre to bring back the Grace Gallery. Contact Virginia at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Nice weather is here, which means more people walking and out and about.  Then we get the hot rod drivers. We are not the Daytona 500 speedway, guys and gals.  And seriously, with the cost of gas, is it worth putting your life and others at risk by speeding through our village? Please, be smart and be safe.

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Verona
Debbie Lingen

Verona Vendor Village and Market  this Saturday, June 4, will have fresh asparagus, rhubarb, green onions, radishes, lettuce bowls, potatoes by the pail, fresh herbs, veggies and tomato plants, and flowers. Last chance for girl guide cookies until September.  14 vendors items on display. Located at 4309 Maple Dr.

The 5th Annual Artisan Sale will be held on Saturday, June 4 from 9:30am to 2pm at 6522 Hwy 38, Verona. Solar lights, wood working, bird baths, garden art and much more!

Style Revival will be open on Saturday, June 11 from 10 to 1pm. Style Revival is a free clothing store. It is also open Wednesdays from 9am to 1pm. They take donations of clothing and accessories - clean and in good condition.  Located at the Verona Free Methodist Church.

Celebration of Life for Bill Lodge will be held on Sunday, June 12 at 2pm at Verona Free Methodist Church.

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