ADDINGTON HIGHLANDS

Lakelands Family Health Team held an open house at the Denbigh Hall on February 6. The hall was packed with Denbigh and area residents eager to find out about services the Health Team would have available, both presently and in the future. Two...

Addington Highlands Council will not be combing though their 2011 budget for another month or more, but they are already facing an increase in the library budget of $27,000, an increase of over 100% over last year (from $24,800 to $51,800). June...

Once you've heard the sound of a dial-up modem you can't really forget it. It only lasts about 10 seconds but it is rather sharp and it builds to a single note that can only be described as unpleasant. And then you check the connection speed. Is it...

Proposals as varied as an indoor swimming pool, a rehab centre, a location for night classes, a Tim Horton's location, office space for Land O'Lakes Community Services and a banquet hall were all thrown into the mix as possible uses for the former...

Addington Highlands Community Centre – Denbigh (AHDCC): Councilor Tony Fritsch reported that the cleanup of the Centre is complete and the transfer of the utilities to the township is well underway. Drawings will be prepared to determine the...

Photo: Anne Wilson (centre) flanked by North Frontenac Deputy Mayor Fred Perry (left) and Addington HighlandsReeve Henry Hogg (right) and staff from the family Health Team, family members and members of council. Anne Wilson did not go in for rural...

Bridge issues predominate at first meeting of the year Addington Highlands Public Works Manager Royce Rosenblath presented a report on bridge inspections, prepared by Jewel Engineering, to the first council meeting of the year on January 4 in...

Starting in January 2011, both Addington Highlands and North Frontenac townships will be paying $15,000 a year for the next five years to Ann Wilson, a third-year medical student at the University of Toronto. Wilson will begin practicing at the...

Photo: NAEC N house cheer [N House Spirit booster on Frisky Friday. Last week, students from grades 9 to 12 and staff of North Addington Education Centre participated in Spirit Week, organized by Mrs Sarah Sproule's Grade 12 Leadership class. Each...

Long-time Addington Highlands Reeve Henry Hogg read a short statement at the outset of a new council term in Flinton on Monday afternoon. He took the opportunity to welcome three new members to the four-member council: rookie councilors from Ward 1,...

Photo:  L-r Margaret Axford, Larry Pealow, Reeve Henry Hogg The 2010 Addington Highlands Community Builder Award was presented on November 27 to Margaret Axford. This award is presented annually to "Any individual who has made a significant...

Photo: L-R: Gary McLeod (East Central Ontario Training Board); Chris and Melissa Evans, owners of Addison's Restaurant; Helen Yanch of Addington Highlands Council The north did pretty well at the annual Lennox and Addington Awards ceremony last...

Photo:  Heidi, Kayla, Rebecca and Dallas sell stickers designed by the NAEC Graphic Art class at the Northern Highlights Show. The Northern Highlights Arts, Crafts and Community Fair held at North Addington Education Centre on Nov. 17 was a huge...

Bill Cox, representing the Mazinaw Powerline Snowmobile Club, brought a request that council give a letter to the club confirming that it can use the O’Donnell Road bridge providing the club brings it up to snowmobiling standard and the bridge is...

Photo: (l-r) – Bud Clayton, chair - Pine Meadow Management Committee, Jim Wilson – Lion’s Club, Ernest Lapchinski, chair – building committee, Bonnie George - Pine Meadow Administrator, Jane Muston, chair - Land O’Lakes Community Services,...

Denbigh School purchase “imminent” One of the hurdles to establishing a satellite medical clinic in Denbigh is about to be removed. The Limestone District School Board sent a letter to Addington Highlands Township last week formally offering to...

The Land o’Lakes Lions will hold their annual voluntary toll on Hwy 41 in Northbrook on October 30. Council considered the possibility of applying to the Ministry of Tourism and Culture’s 2010-2011 Creative Communities Prosperity Fund (CCPF)....

Photo: Viking Spirit!  Photo by Shenice Farmer N.A.E.C. held their elementary soccer tournament on October 18. North Addington, Land O' Lakes, Hinchinbrooke and Sharbot Lake Public Schools all had two teams in attendance for a terrific day of play...

Municipal Election - October 25, 2010 Mayor - Henry Hogg - Acclaimed Ward 1, Denbigh Ward 2, Kaladar TONY FRITSCH Tony Fritsch was born and raised on a farm near Denbigh. He moved away to seek employment with Ontario Hydro as a young man and ended...

Photo: Pine Meadow resident Jacquiline Anderson It’s been a long haul and the shovels won’t hit the ground until next spring, but the future of the Pine Meadow Nursing Home in Northbrook has been secured through a redevelopment agreement with...

Photo: Dylan Walker (in back) and Jakob Vlasic Six-year-old Dylan Walker of Plevna, who is winning his battle with neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nervous system that is now in remission, was invited by seven-year-old Jakob Vlasic of Northbrook to...

Council discussed a letter from the Lake Weslemkoon Conservation Association (LWCA), which raised several issues, mostly about the township’s new requirement that all recyclables must be brought to dumpsites in blue boxes, not bags. The...

There is a hill in Denbigh that has seen some attention as of late that it has not seen for decades. Following discussions with family and friends, Tony Fritsch, along with wife Gail, began to clear out a grown up field with the intention of growing...

Photo: courtesy of Dave Deacon For most of us the rocks of Bon Echo Park represent an exotic and awe inspiring landscape but for multi-award winning geologist Dr. David Pearson, founder of Science North and Professor of Earth Sciences at Laurentian...

Addington Highlands delays Blue Box rule In the face of concerns from marina operators and others, Addington Highlands Council has agreed to phase in a new Blue Box rule for recycled materials slowly. But by December 1 the new rule will apply at all...

Denbigh played host to 24 fourth-year students from the University of Ottawa last Thursday afternoon. The crew was led by Associate Professor of Geography Robert McLeman, and TA Renate Sander-Regier…and they let me tag along too. The theme of the...

Photo:  Robbie McLuckie’s winning team On August 14, the St. Andrews fundraising committee held a one-pitch ball tournament at the Flinton community centre ball field. Six teams played in the tournament, which started at 8 am and finished at 5...

In their submission to the Ministry of Natural Resources concerning the proposed five-year forest management plan for the Mazinaw-Lanark Forest, the Skootamatta District Ratepayers Association pointed to eight concerns they have about some proposed...

Jim and Sue Waddington pose where A..J. Casson painted one of the many works he made of Bon Echo Park Art enthusiasts John and Sue Waddington have been following in the footsteps of Canada's most renowned landscape painters, The Group of Seven, for...

A request was received from Tanglewood Marina for permission to bring a load of loose garbage – i.e. garbage that was not in bags - to the dump. Apparently animals had gotten into the garbage.Council refused the request, citing that the waste site...

Photographer Melissa Randle. The 38th Annual Cloyne Showcase was held last weekend at North Addington Education Centre, highlighting many local and regional talented artisans. The show covers many artistic mediums including chainsaw carving, stained...

Photo: Dylan and his grandmother Debbie McLeod at the Relay for Life Dylan Walker continues his fight against cancer. The six-year-old, who has been battling Neuroblastma since November 2009, has undergone stem cell therapy, massive doses of...

Through the Roof to build new one Don Wannamaker from The Through the Roof Ministry in Flinton approached Addington Highlands Council this week seeking relief from paying building permit fees for renovation plans to their building. The relatively...

Steven McNevin and Dr. Martyn Obbard at the bear seminar sponsored by the Frontenac Stewardship Council. The term “research scientist” generally invokes a mental image of someone peering into a microscope or poring over documents and files. The...

At the back of the Barrie Hall, in Cloyne, there is a small office space that is rented by Mazinaw Lanark Forest Incorporated (MLFI). MLFI is a company that owes its existence to the Harris Conservatives. Until the mid 1990s, the Ontario Ministry of...

Survivors’ lap at the Flinton Relay led by survivor chair Sherry Tebo with Irene Hosking (in silver hat) and Dan Bolduc (behind Irene with glasses and beard) This year’s Relay for Life was a year of firsts in a number of ways, making the already...

On May 18, one of North Addington Education Centre’s students represented “Team Limestone” at the Ontario Skills Competition at the R.I.M. Park in Kitchener/Waterloo. Eighteen hundred students from around Ontario competed, and 30,000 visitors...

Riley Kay, Grade 2 student at NAEC, represented her school at the annual Royal Canadian Legion Public Speaking competitions in the Grades 1--3 category.  Riley first traveled to Northbrook then on to Sharbot Lake, Eganville and Brighton placing...

(Information for the following was gathered from the books “The Oxen and the Axe”, and “Lennox and Addington”, which was written by Orland French, although the sections that were used here were written by Marg Axford) Photo right: Drive the...

Barb Ellsworth, before her hair cut. To help kick off the Relay for Life in Flinton, which takes place tomorrow night (June 11), residents of Pine Meadow Nursing Home in Northbrook held their own mini-relay last Friday afternoon. Residents wheeled...

GRAVEL CRUSHING PRICE DOWN – There were few bidders for the Addington Highlands gravel crushing tender this year, but one of them, from Danfords construction, was more than a third lower than the price the township paid past year. The price...

The relationship between libraries and the internet has augmented the ongoing role of libraries in rural communities. But there are limits to what libraries can offer. For the Flinton library, hitting the bandwith limit in their satellite internet...

Megan Cruickshank with the two artworks selected by the Hotel Dieu students’ art gallery. North Addington Education Centre student Megan Cruickshank has two pieces of art in the Hotel Dieu Students’ Art Gallery in Kingston. Megan and her family...

In April, Ken Hook, manager of the Land o’Lakes Tourist Association, wrote a letter to council about waste pickup, canteen roof repairs and periodic inspection of the Northbrook Skate Park. Council agreed with Hook that the skate park should be...

Dave Winney was cruising down Highway 41 on his motorcycle on May 5 when he noticed that the highway sign he had put up next to the highway south of Northbrook for his wife Chris Winney’s real estate business had been damaged. “I wasn’t that...

On May 3, and May 5, a chainsaw safety course took place at North Addington Education Center. It was certification training, organized for students in the construction program and students in the Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) program. Three...

Taxes jump by 6.7% in Addington Highlands Addington Highlands Council will be increasing their net levy to ratepayers by $114,000 in 2010. In 2009 the total amount raised through taxation in the township was $1.68 million, whereas in 2010 it will be...

In the month of April, on the 22nd day, a very special thing is celebrated every year, Earth Day. Earth Day is a day to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. It's celebrated in multiple countries each year and everyone...

Fritz Nussberger, ken Douglas Board member Shirley Sedore and Ursula Nussberger It was about three years ago that Susan Andrew Allen and other staff and board members from Land O'Lakes Community Services (LOLCS) were sitting dumbfounded at a meeting...

Just about everyone has a mother, a sister, or a friend who has been touched by breast cancer, and the ladies in the Land O’Lakes would like us all to get together to “Help Whip Cancer”. In support of breast cancer research, a group of...