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Sydenham Lions Donate To NeLL And LCERC

On Dec. 16, Alan McPhail, president of the Sydenham & District Lions Club, presented a cheque for $1000 to Sue Clinton, Chair, and Peter Stewart, Logistics Co-ordinator, Loughborough Christmas & Emergency Relief Committee. This timely donation provides the LC&ERC with a welcome…

Unfinished Business

Editorial by Jeff GreenNormally I thank our staff, readers, and advertisers on this, our last issue of 2013, and I would like to do so this year as well. As I look back on the stories we covered this past year, a few stories, it seems to me, have been left hanging. The saga of…

DUSHARM, Gracie Elizabeth Doreen

(NEE Bedore) Peacefully at John M Parrott Nursing Home in Napanee on December 2nd, 2013 in her 85th year. Loving mother of Linda Bertrim (David), Perth Road, George (Irene) of Napanee and Rose Marie Linton (Robert), Of Hillier. Beloved sister of Goldie Sly of Sudbury and Morley…

HOWES, Madeline Ethel

After a hard battle, Madeline passed away at the age of 84 at Trillium Ridge, Kingston, on Saturday December 7, 2013. Madeline was the daughter of the late Raymond and Ethel Wagar. Beloved wife of the late Thomas Arthur Howes. Loving mother of Garry (Rhoda), George (Charlotte),…

Limestone Creamery At The Eastern Ontario Local Food Conference

At the Eastern Ontario Local Food Conference titled “Innovation Driving Local Food”, which was held in Kingston on December 2 and 3 at the Ambassador Hotel, one of the three presenters was a local producer from our readership area. Olivia Groenewegen, who is part owner along…

Iron Maidens And New Leaf Linkers Benefit From Qigong

Good things happen when community groups and organizations link up. That has been the case over the last year with participants in New Leaf Link (NeLL), a non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to the community inclusion of adults with developmental disabilities. NeLL…

NFU Local 316 Promotes Regional Branding, Food Sovereignty

The National Farmers Union (NFU) Local 316's continuing efforts to promote the local food movement in the area have garnered them much-deserved attention and respect over the last decade and a half, when the local food movement in and around KLF&A started gaining momentum. In an…

Sydenham HS Students Lay Down Their Tracks

In a special project, students in Ms. Snider's grade nine Academic English class at Sydenham High School (SHS) were given the opportunity to experience recording their own original songs at Crooked Bush recording studio in Sydenham. The project was part of an oral skills project…

GREC Still On Tap For January 6 Opening

Officials with the Limestone District School Board are still working towards welcoming Kindergarten to grade 12 students to the brand new Granite Ridge Education Centre on the first day of classes after the Christmas holidays. But it will take a lot of work for a lot of people…

Central Frontenac Council - Dec. 10/13

Central Frontenac opts for internet/telephone voting Central Frontenac was the only township in Frontenac County and vicinity that was still committed to conducting its municipal elections by a postal vote. That all changed this week, when, at their last meeting of the year,…