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Frontenac County students receive Limestone achiever awards

Frontenac County was well represented at a Student Achievers awards ceremony at the Limestone District School Board offices last week. Emily Delyea and Skyler Howes of Granite Ridge (Sharbot Lake) and Stephanie Jones from Sydenham High School were among 12 students in the board…

Power Generation dominate all-candidates’ meeting

The candidates were not surprised that the most popular line of questioning at the first all-candidates’ meeting in Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington in the current election campaign had to do with power generation and electricity rates. The meeting was held on May 26 at the…

Sydenham & District Lions celebrate 10 years of community service

Photo: members of the current Sydenham Lions club l-r Wray Gillespie, Velma Young and Jim Kelly received awards at the club’s 10-year anniversary event at the Grace Centre on May 24. Members of the Sydenham and District Lions gathered at the Southern Frontenac Community Service…

Community Living NF gives back

Staff at Community Living-North Frontenac (CLNF) in Sharbot Lake held their annual community BBQ on May 27 and the event was very well attended. Staff served up hot beef on a bun, hot dogs, ice cold beverages and cake to the close to 100 guests who attended. Two musicians, Brian…

Returns for Leukemia

Students from the Granite Ridge Education Centre, assisted staff member Shelley Bertrim with the two-day Returns For Leukemia bottle drive that took place on May 24 and 25 at the Beer Store in Sharbot Lake to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada. The…

School of Rock still rockin!

by Julia Schall Teamwork, communication and music are alive and well at Granite Ridge Education Centre! The GREC School of Rock have been meeting weekly since the end of March. The primary goals of this extra-curricular program are to build confidence and foster communication…

Family Fun at Land O' Lakes PS

If the motto for the parent council at Land O' Lakes Public School in Mountain Grove is not “the show must go on”, it definitely should be. That was the case for the school's annual Fun Fair, which took place on May 22 despite some heavy downpours that in no way dampened the…

Dedication ceremony highlights the pluses at GREC

While the road to building the new 65,000 square foot kindergarten to grade 12 Granite Ridge Education Centre (GREC) in Sharbot Lake and relocating 500 plus students and staff there has been a bumpy one, the official dedication ceremony that took place on May 22 was one of…

Frontenac News - 50 stories/150 year project

To help celebrate the 150th anniversary of Frontenac County, the Frontenac News is embarking on an ambitious story-telling project with the support of Frontenac County Council. The project will include feature stories in each issue of the Frontenac News in 2015, and on…

Land O’ Lakes Community Services

by Cheryl Hartwick Board recruitment – the second big lie A couple of weeks ago I discussed the lie of perspective board members not needing to know anything prior to consideration of joining a board of directors. I suggested that you really should know, at least a little bit,…