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Paramedic Presentation To Frontenac County

Over 30 paramedics from the Frontenac Land Ambulance Service attended a meeting of Frontenac County Council last Wednesday. They were there to support Chief Steward, Shauna Dunn, who made a presentation about Council’s recent decision to cut a 12-hour day shift at the Palace…

Stewardship Councils Talk About Beavers

Two hundred people packed the Civitan Hall in Perth for a day-long seminar devoted to the ubiquitous Canadian Beaver, the loved and loathed creature that most closely resembles humans in its tendency to make changes to its surroundings. As creatures who alter their habitat to…

Habitat To Build This Summer In Tichborne!

Habitat for Humanity Kingston and Frontenac have found a building lot. It is in Tichborne right on Highway 38 and Habitat plans to build the first home in our community with your help this summer. Thank you to everyone who called with potential building lots. Your interest was…

New Owners Dig In At The The Oaks On Crow Lake

Anyone who has driven past The Oaks Cottages on Crow Lake recently may have noticed two new friendly faces there. They belong to Karen and Dan Lahey, the new owners of The Oaks, the cottage rental property and resort located in Crow Lake village on the north shore of Crow Lake.…

Sharbot Lake Public School Students Pitch In For Earth Day

On April 22, after donning blue gloves and with garbage bags in hand, bands of students from Sharbot Lake Public school spread out through the village of Sharbot Lake and did their fair share of garbage gathering in a special community clean up event in celebration of Earth Day.…

Alzheimer Education Event

“Last in, first out” was how Caitlin Norwich-Stevenson, a Public Education Coordinator with the Alzheimer Society, described the memory loss that accompanies Alzheimer disease. She was referring to the fact that people with Alzheimer’s lose their most recent memories first. This…

Central Frontenac Council - Apr 23/13

CF Fire Chief requests OPP training for dealing with meth labs As a result of his team being called in by the OPP to dismantle a meth lab in Mountain Grove last week, Fire Chief Bill Young asked council to consider providing more OPP training for CF firefighters in how to…

First Ever Sharbot Lake Trash Bash Courtesy Of CLNF

Members of the community are being invited to participate in a special, first time ever spring community clean up event courtesy of staff at Community Living-North Frontenac. The event, which is being organized by Ryan Wood, Community Activity Support Worker at CLNF, is designed…

Edith Beaulieu: NFCS Volunteer Of The Year

Sometimes you have to mix things up. So, this year the staff at Northern Frontenac Community Services decided to hold its annual Volunteer Appreciation Lunch in the evening. To do that they had to change it to a dinner, which wasn’t that hard to do. One hundred and nine people…

Frontenac Stewardship Foundation Down But Not Out!

The Frontenac Stewardship Foundation (FSF) over the past year has fallen on hard times following significant cuts to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) that led to OMNR’s cancellation of the Ontario Stewardship Program. Those cuts meant the loss of the…