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Safe properties bylaw still needs work, but it is getting closer A draft version of a new Safe Properties bylaw was presented to Central Frontenac Council on Tuesday afternoon (November 27) Councilor Tom Dewey was the first to speak to the new draft. He proposed a number of…
Jason Ronfeld got his start as a firefighter with the Kaladar/Barrie Fire Department, where he was a young recruit in the late 1990s, but even before that time he thought about becoming a professional firefighter. “Fire fighting has always been a passion of mine” he said from…
by Wilma Kenny Seniors’ Housing for Verona? Jamie Curragh asked Council for their feedback on his proposal to build a two-storey, 10-unit seniors housing complex in Verona. Curragh’s plans are still in the early stages. He showed a sketch of a potential layout and quoted a…
St. Paul's United Church Sunday School in Harrowsmith is no stranger to outreach projects. The past several years have seen the children raising funds through bike-a-thons and craft sales to purchase livestock, school and medical supplies for under-privileged countries and…
December is always a great month for stargazing. A telescope shows Mars as a tiny dot low in the southwest about a fist width at arm’s length (10 degrees) just after sunset. Venus is 5 degrees below Saturn in the southeast in the early days of December. This sight is for you…
The Northern Goshawk is the raptor cottagers are most likely to encounter deep in the woods in the dead of winter. It will brave the snow and cold as long as there are enough snowshoe hares, grouse and squirrels to feed on. The name “Goshawk” is derived from an old English name…
Photo: l-r Dennis Black, Bob and Kale Yearwood, LOLSC president Fred Lafferton, COFA president Ron Pethick and winner Tammy Dobbs at the Bishop Lake Outdoor Centre in Cloyne Hunters in the north country had much to celebrate on the final day of the regular deer hunting season.…
Photo: back row l-r,Councilor Tony Fritch with library board members Carol Lessard, Ann Ball, Carolyn Hasler and Mary McKinnon, front row l-r, MPP Randy Hillier, Reeve Henry Hogg, OTF district chair Nina Jenkins, Councilor Helen Yanch and volunteer Jeanette Scott (hidden is June…
Photo: Villages Beautiful Committee- organizers of the annual Festival of Trees in Sharbot Lake, l-r, Doris Campsall, Barb England, Patsy Lowery, Linda West, Sally Angle, Brenda Repaye, Pearl Robinson and Dee Riddell, (absent - Ann Howard). It is thanks to a small group of…
Grade 7 and 8 students at Loughborough Public School played a major role in the Anti-Bullying Week events at the school, which culminated in student-led, school-wide assemblies last Friday afternoon. The multi-media presentation, which included music, several slide shows, video,…
