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Danka Brewer Receives LDSB Outstanding Service Award

On April 9, Shabot Obaadjiwan Elder Danka Brewer was presented with an Outstanding Service Award by the Limestone District School Board. The award was presented by Trustee Ann Goodfellow. The LDSB citation reads: "Danka Brewer’s contributions to education in the Limestone…

Future Of School Busing Remains Unclear

Small school bus operators in Eastern Ontario have been at the forefront of a battle with the Province of Ontario for the past five years over a new method of awarding contracts. The school bus operators formed a new association, the Independent School Bus Operators of Ontario…

Lesley Pickard New St. Lawrence Employer Liaison

The Sharbot Lake St. Lawrence College Employment Service office is excited by the new staff position recently created here. Lesley Pickard has been hired as the new Employer Liaison and will be traveling all over South, Central and North Frontenac, meeting with small business…

Naturalist Shares His Knowledge Of Trees At Grace Centre

On April 12 in a talk titled “Trees Worth Knowing in Eastern Ontario”, naturalist Owen Clarkin shared his love and knowledge of trees with guests as part of a nature talk sponsored by Southern Frontenac Community Services and the Grace Centre Arts Committee at the Grace Centre…

The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

by Lorraine Julien How suitable this name is! Are you familiar with stink bugs? I found a little stink bug on a planter last summer and thought it was kind of cute – certainly distinctive with the weird “shield” shape. We have lots of native stink bugs but a new, non-native, and…

The Wilderness Of Manitoba In Sharbot Lake

The Toronto-based band, The Wilderness of Manitoba, offers up a sound so unique that they are hard to categorize. If you have only seen them on YouTube, take it from me; their live shows add an extra dimension, like most stellar bands' live shows do. Wilderness of Manitoba is…

Letters: Apr 24/14

Re: Fair Elections Act I have always thought that civility and respect for others were core values for conservatives. Leslie Frost, Bill Davis, Peter Lougheed, Robert Stanfield and Joe Clark were all great conservatives and they were all scrupulously polite and…

TOWING

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Water, Water Everywhere

Conservation authorities throughout the region were posting and updating flood advisories early this week as the higher than average winter runoff combined with the latest in a series of spring rains caused floods along the Mississippi, Rideau, Quinte and Cataraqui Conservation…

Ian Brumell Receives June Callwood Award

The Board of Directors of the Cloyne & District Historical Society is pleased to announce that Ian Brumell has been awarded The June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism. After a unanimous motion by the directors, Ian was nominated last fall. The award was made…