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Photo: Tracy and Sandi Hook of Hook's Rona Store in Northbrook Interviewing Tracy and Sandi Hook on the occasion of their Hook's Rona Store winning a national retail award of significant magnitude was not easy to do. Instead of being ushered into...
Photo: Back Row: Mike, Terry, Anthony, Desiree, Front Row: Robin, Lydia and Abby The students of North Addington Education Centre will be suiting up in their favourite costumes on October 31 and knocking on your door! They will be asking for...
The Outdoor Learning Centre Project at North Addington Education Centre in Cloyne, which received funding commitments from North Frontenac and Addington Highlands Council during the summer, has continued to gather financial support. COFA...
Photo: SLHS graduate and Elvis Tribute Artist Stephen Goodberry will performing at SLHS on Nov. 4 Ladies looking for an evening of fine entertainment that will benefit two worthy causes should get a ticket while they last for the upcoming “Girls...
Photo: Left to right: Colista McQuigge, Ashley Buls, Rachel Van Dusen, Emma Fuller, Madi Lemke, Aryssa Grant, Megan Cruickshank and Deanna Allen. Students from NAEC participated in painting a canvas for the Limestone Learning Foundation’s Crystal...
My aunt and uncle have been running a rescue animal farm at 1228 Road 506, Cloyne for the last three years. They opened it with their retirement funds, opting to keep on working instead of retiring early, due to a love of animals. It may sound...
AH Council to tackle tricky roads issue, later – Periodically, requests come into Addington Highlands Council to provide some sort of maintenance, ranging from minimal grading to major repairs, on roads that are owned but no longer maintained by...
Culvert Replacement - Erroll Ruth of Mallory Lake made a return visit to council to ask for the township’s help with roadwork and in replacing some culverts on Addington Road 5, which he said were in such bad shape that they could collapse and...
Lennox & Addington Council has decided to seek a new home for the Northbrook ambulance base, and a request for proposal for a piece of land located on Highway 41 between Northbrook and Denbigh will be set out this week. That was the easy part for...
On September 6, an open meeting was held at the Griffith Community Hall. Community response was very good, with 62 people in attendance. The purpose of the meeting was to assess whether there was community support in creating a citizen-based and led...
Photo: Bill Campbell presenting the bursary to Katelyn Ronfeld The Friends of Bon Echo Park announced the winners of the 2011 Bursary Awards at their Annual General Meeting on September 3. The bursary award program has been in place for over 15...
RFP for new office/fire hall complex: While they are not exactly at the groundbreaking stage just yet, Addington Highlands Council has taken the next step in a process that may lead to the construction of a township office and fire hall on a lot...
Photo: Elvis times four, l-r; John Cigan, Al Ross, Frank E. Cross and Eric Evangelista The well-known 30-year-old Tweed legend that Elvis lives somewhere in town was proven true... and then some this past weekend. No fewer than 33 ETAs (Elvis...
Photo: Becky Kavanaugh and Pam Lemke of Land O'Lakes Community Services Thanks to a grant totaling $3000, which was received from the Napanee District Community Foundation (NDCF) and the Mazinaw Community Fund, the Land O'Lakes Community Services...
Rumours of the end of the Land O’Lakes Emmanuel United Church are greatly exaggerated. Recently all three of the churches that the congregation uses on a rotating basis, the Flinton, Harlowe and Cloyne United Churches, were put up for sale....
When the second Flinton Relay for Life was in the planning stages, staff members from the Kingston office floated the idea of setting a goal of raising $100,000, an increase over the $82,000 that was raised in the first Flinton Relay in 2010. “I...
Photo: Gary Rosenblath and Gordon Spicer allonwith Pine Meadow administrator Bonnie George and the troops. Pine Meadow Nursing Home residents Gary Rosenblath and Gordon Spicer wanted to show their support for Canadian troops and the Afghanistan...
Photo: Scott Cannata (centre) with family members in Kaladar. “Every morning when I wake up, I feel like I ran a marathon the day before and I know I have to run another one.” Scott Cannata feels that way for a reason. Every morning when he...
After hearing two presentations concerning the need to keep the Denbigh ambulance service, Lennox and Addington County deferred a proposal to begin the process of finding a location for a new base in the Northbrook/Cloyne vicinity. The Northbrook...
Northpoint Square in Northbrook is for sale, and owner Murry Northey attended the meeting in Denbigh to give council information about the complex, which contains several offices, since the township is looking to establish a new office/fire hall...
Photo: Scott Cannata Maybe it’s because Scott Cannata loves running and has developed a particular passion for distance running over the years, or maybe it’s because his name lends itself to a cross-Canada run. Maybe it’s because he has been...
Photo: Matt Spencer, Rachelle Hardesty, Jim and Claire Walker and Jake Thomas at Kirk Kove on Big Gull Lake Three area lakes will be showcased on an upcoming feature on Power Boat TV, a show all about power boating that has been running for 21 years...
We took to the road at 7 a.m., leaving from Sharbot Lake. We made several stops along the way to pick up folks from Verona, Kingston, Bath, Napanee, Peterborough and Trenton. We were all Lions Club members and we were on our way to the Lions...
It will be mid-August at the earliest before Frontenac County Council makes any kind of decision about the location of an ambulance base to serve the residents of North and parts of Central Frontenac. At their July 6 meeting, Frontenac County...
Photo: Student rangers near Flinton Members of the Ontario Ranger and Ontario Stewardship Ranger programs, two eight-week summer job programs geared to high school students aged 17, were out in full force on July 11. The programs are both sponsored...
While most teachers are enjoying their summer vacations, Sarah Sproule and Darren Sissons from North Addington Education Centre in Cloyne have been making the rounds of local councils, Lions clubs and sports groups, looking for money to support an...
Affordable Housing post 2011 A presentation was made by Chris Laundry, a social housing consultant working for Lennox and Addington, about the future of the affordable housing sector in the county. He provided an overview of the way provincial and...
By Devin Gagne-Baldacchin, Grade 8 The students and staff of North Addington Education Centre have been busy bringing in non-perishable food items. The local food bank has been low on food and financial resources are limited, so the elementary...
Photo: Brad Douglas and Olivia Douglas presenting a cheque for $2500 to Jane Potyok for Pine Meadow Nursing Home. The Pine Meadow Classic is more than a golf tournament. It has become a major source of the kinds of extra funds that are needed to...
Photos: Jean Wannamaker Over 100 friends and family representing five generations gathered at the community centre in Flinton to celebrate Jean Wannamaker’s 100th birthday. Displays of photos and a written history of Jean's family life and work...
Over 60 citizens present at a public meeting in Denbigh were united in their determination to keep their ambulance services in the Denbigh community. On June 16, Denbigh resident Paul Isaacs led a public meeting at the Denbigh hall to inform the...
Henry Hogg has seen this all before. In 2008, as Reeve of Addington Highlands and member of Lennox and Addington County Council, he had the job of convincing his colleagues on county council that it was important to maintain the ambulance services...
Photo: Kendra Wilson and Dallas Arney perform Oh, Canada during the Relay Opening. There were a lot of familiar faces at the Flinton park on June 10 as most of on and We Hwy. 41 corridor community gathered for the second Relay for Life. The bar...
Fire Chief Casey Cuddy reported that no tenders were received for repairing the roofs of the Northbrook and Denbigh fire halls. The request for tenders closed on May 13. Cuddy said he received some phone calls, and at least one person said they...
Photo: The EcoTeam, supervised by Ms. Randle, is made up of senior students Gordie Grewal, Brittany McQuigge, Racheal Kellar and Katelyn Ronfeld.Once more, NAEC has been certified as an EcoSchool. Inspectors visited the school on May 6 to do an...
Addington Highlands brings in a budget increase. Addington Highlands ratepayers will pay just under 8% more tax for local services in 2011. The increase in the local levy, to $1.936 million from $1.8 million in 2010, comes about partly as the result...
Photo: l-r Lois Emond, Esther Irving, Carolyn Hasler and Linda Lindsay Members of the Land O'Lakes Quilters Guild in Cloyne decided this year to make and donate a quilt to the second annual Flinton Relay for Life cancer fundraiser, which will be...
Back in 1989, the Ottawa chapter of the Elvis Sighting Society said that Elvis Presley was alive and living in Tweed. Although this never really caught hold in Tweed, an “Elvis is Alive” Festival was held there for several summers in the 1990s....
North Addington Education Centre took a stand against bullying on April 13, by declaring it a Day of Pink. Students and staff in the school sported pink shirts, ties, hats and scarves, amongst other items of clothing. Day of Pink is an international...
Photo: Ron Brown gives a presentation at the Cloyne & District Historical Society’s meeting on April 18. Many who enjoy the sights and stories of Ontario’s ghost towns were treated to a presentation courtesy of the Cloyne and District...
Recycling Strategy Council received a draft Municipal Waste Recycling Strategy (MWRS) plan that was prepared by Cambium Environmental Inc. along with township staff. The township is undertaking the plan in order to 1) maximize Best Practices funding...
Hunt Road maintenance request – George Hunt appeared before council to request some help in bringing about 1.5 kilometres of the Hunt Road, south of Cloyne, to a point where it is passable. Hunt said that his family uses the road seasonally to...
Photo: NAEC's new young authors Each year, radio station 98.9FM The Drive gets money to promote Canadian music. The station has decided to put the money into music programs across the Limestone board, and is donating $1000 each to 13 schools. North...
Photo: Scott Cannatta (centre) with students at NAEC. Photo: Katie Ohlke. Some of us get exhausted just thinking of a marathon, let alone running one. But Scott Cannata, a physical anthropology student at Trent University in Peterborough, intends...
Wide tender spread engenders caution The township received three tenders for interior demolition and masonry work, and the installation of in-floor plumbing in the new Addington Highlands Community Centre at the former Denbigh school. The work...
Photo: Jim and Kahoru Noonan at their home in Cloyne For many Canadian residents the effects of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 4 metre tsunami that hit Japan on March 11 are far from over as they continue to search for news of loved ones. Cloyne...
Council approves Denbigh Schoolhouse ‘concept’ plan A 14-member community advisory committee has put together a plan for the redevelopment of the former Denbigh Schoolhouse as a community hub. The concept plan, which was accepted in principle by...
Photo: NAEC students gather core samples from Lake Mazinaw. Courtesy of Dave Deacon Grade nine students from North Addington Education Centre in Cloyne had a chance to get to the bottom of things when on Feb.23 they assisted Queen’s University...
Photo: Winners of the public speaking contest from left to right: Kaden Snider, Riley Kay, Madi Lemke, Lance Wagner and Ben Mieske, photo by Dave Deacon. Students participated at the Lions Hall, Northbrook, on Friday Feb. 11/11 in front of family...
Photo: A bin for wood pellets to be installed at North Addington Education Centre, Here we are with spring in sight and a good portion of the home heating season behind us, or so we hope. Within the next few weeks, 800 households, 400 each from...
