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Chen Guan Ming’s Amazing Journey – 140,000+ Km On A Rickshaw

Chen Guan Ming is passionately committed to three causes: promoting the Olympic spirit, world peace, and environmental protection, and he has lived out that commitment by traversing 140,000 kilometres over half the world almost completely by human power - riding or pulling his…

Fresh And Bright, Hartington Branch Re-Opens

The Hartington branch of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL) is a small rural branch located in the Princess Margaret Building on Road 38. A library restructuring report, written several years ago, called for the branch to be closed and replaced by a larger branch in…

Sydenham Students Flock To Lunch4Teens Meal

Build it and they will come. That phrase wasn't coined to refer to a free home-made lunch program for students but judging by the turn out at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Sydenham on November 12, it might have well have been. That was when Lunch4Teens launched its first free…

NAEC Students Fill Empty Bowls Again

Students at NAEC are working hard to help the local Food Bank again this year, with a repeat of the Empty Bowls Project. The Empty Bowls Project will culminate in a supper on November 19 at the Northern Highlights craft show, combining bowls and food produced by NAEC students…

Central Frontenac Council - Nov 12/13

Cost of medical calls sparks discussion at Council In considering the monthly report by Fire Chief Bill Young and Deputy Chief Art Cowdy, members of Central Frontenac Council noted that the department is called out twice as often for medical calls as it is for fire calls. “Most…

Frontenac County CAO Pay Set To Peak At $157,000

We don't know who it will be, but we do know how much they will be paid and when they will be hired. We also know where the consultant, who could be paid as much as $30,000, will be looking. The search for a replacement for Frontenac County CAO Liz Savill, who will be leaving…

South Frontenac Council - Nov. 12/13

Petworth Road subdivision emerges from the shadows For months Hartington residents living in the vicinity of Petworth Road have been raising alarm bells about what they thought was coming, a proposed subdivision on Petworth Road that they say will affect the delicate water table…

What About A Help Wanted Ad?

Let me see if I have this right. Frontenac County Council has decided to pay a consulting firm $7,000 to help them hire another consulting firm for $25,000 to $30,000 plus expenses. The second firm will have the task of recruiting someone whose salary they have already announced…

Letters: Nov 14/13

Re: Edward Kennedy I appreciated the glimpse into the thinking of a White Folks Champion (Frontenac News, Letters, Nov. 7/13). Would be interested to hear Mr. Kennedy’s views on other social policies, such as Native land claims, Refugee Immigration, etc. Do his views represent…

Pay attention to your hydro bills

By Anne-Marie Langan, staff lawyer, Rural Legal Services Lately Rural Legal Services has had a rash of complaints from seniors, clients with disabilities and persons on a fixed income, about their Hydro Bills. These complaints have included: Usage has been grossly underestimated…