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In her 89th year passed away peacefully at Moira Place in Tweed May 24th 2013.Beloved wife if the late Samuel Gordon Southward.Survived by her loving sons Raymond (Marie) Wayne (Barbara) Dale (Sharon), 9 grandchildren 16 great grandchildren and numerous friends.Her zest for life…
Former NHL Hockey great, Theo Fleury, passed through Sharbot Lake on his “Victor Walk”, an effort to bring attention to the issues surrounding childhood sexual abuse. Fleury, 44 years old, wrote about his own experience of childhood sexual abuse in his 2009 autobiography titled…
Anne Chambers is living the dream. The potter, who has been creating functional clay work for close to three decades, recently relocated to Brooke Valley from Ottawa partly to live a country life but also because her craft demanded the move. “I always wanted to work with certain…
No one is more pleased with the energy, enthusiasm and efforts of this year’s Central and North Frontenac Relay for Life teams than Lesley Merrigan, chair of this year’s event. “I am in awe of all these people who have made the commitment to raise all kinds of money for the…
“I never dreamed of being where I am today,” said Father George Kwari, the new minister of the Anglican parishes of Parham-Sharbot Lake and Maberly-Lanark. Father Kwari hails from Zimbabwe and officially took up his new post on April 1. When I interviewed him following a service…
Algonquins Of Ontario Launch Information Campaign by Jeff Green Ever since the draft Agreement in Principle (AIP) for the Algonquin Land Claim was released at the tail end of 2012, there have been two competing streams of information coming out to the public about the land claim…
The little United Churches in Ompah and Plevna were filled with song and stories on Sunday afternoon, May 19, as members and friends of the former congregations commemorated the long history of their beloved churches. In December, after the painful decision to close the pastoral…
Councilor charges warden with influence peddling Frontenac County Councilor David Jones upped the ante in his ongoing attacks against Frontenac County Warden Janet Gutowski last week by saying the warden used “tricks and influence peddling” to secure passage of the County budget…
Do you like browsing at plant sales, looking for something different? Something you won’t find at most garden centres? On Saturday, June 1, the fifth annual Grandmothers’ Plant & Bake Sale will be held in front of Tiffany Gift Shoppe in Harrowsmith at 10 a.m. sharp (no…
Ompah fire hall renovations set for this year North Frontenac Council has accepted one of the options presented to them by Steve Sunderland, the volunteer chair of the Ompah Fire Hall Design team. The option calls for repairs to the floor of the building, and changes in…
