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Business over Breakfast in Sharbot Lake

Photo: Janet Barr of the Treasure Trunk, Pat Furlong and Sue Theriault of the Frontenac CFDC Members of the business community of Central Frontenac had a chance to network on May 19 over breakfast at the Sharbot Lake Country Inn and were greeted by Mayor Janet Gutowski, chair of…

Tobacco: Expensive Cheap Smokes

By Susan Irwin, Executive Director / Lawyer, Rural Legal Services If the Ontario government has its way, the purchase of cigarettes from a road-side “smoke shack” could get a lot more expensive thanks to the recently introduced Supporting Smoke-Free Ontario by Reducing…

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Back to HomeLetters - May 19, 2011Letters: May 19 Re: By-law Officer Suspects Chickens may be Pigs, Robert Lovelace Re: Ompah Library Closure, June Lovesey Re: Ompa Library Closure, Peter Bunnett Re: Harper vs Gadafi, Brent Cameron Nuclear Elephant, John Kittle Re: By-law…

New Maberly Firehall meets its goals

Photo: l-r back row fire chief Greg Saunders, chair of the fire board Gail Code, Sparky and Reeve Keith Kerr with Garrison, Allina, Madison and Makenna Close to 200 members of the community gathered at the newly opened Maberly fire hall on May 14 to tour the new facility and…

More butternut trees, please

Photo: Paul and Carolyn Fodden and Terry Morey at the SFNEC's annual tree sale in Verona Members of the South Frontenac Natural Environment Committee (SFNEC) were selling trees hand-over-fist at their annual tree sale, which they held at four separate locations in South…

Frontenac Paramedics place defibrillator at NFTC

Photo: Mayor Janet Gutowski, Dave Smith and Gale Chevalier with the defibrillator The North Frontenac Telephone Company head office in Sharbot Lake is the latest Frontenac County recipient of a Public Access Defibrillator, thanks to the efforts of Frontenac Paramedic Services…

Hinchinbrooke School of Rock

The Hinchinbrooke School of Rock has come a long way from its humble beginnings in 2005. What started as a noon-hour gathering of three students has blossomed into a structured extra-curricular program involving upwards of 20 dedicated young musicians in grades seven and eight.…

Jitterbugs renovates and relocates

Photo: Hugh Fisher owner and operator of the new Jitterbugs in VeronaFor some the thought of relocating a business to an 100 plus-year-old building in need of renovation might seem a nightmare. For Jitterbugs owner Hugh Fisher of Verona, a cabinet maker and former network…

NAEC – a whole school approach to environmental awareness

Photo: The EcoTeam, supervised by Ms. Randle, is made up of senior students Gordie Grewal, Brittany McQuigge, Racheal Kellar and Katelyn Ronfeld.Once more, NAEC has been certified as an EcoSchool. Inspectors visited the school on May 6 to do an audit of NAEC’s Eco-practices and…

Mother's Day fundraiser at Station 9 in Sydenham

Photo: Sydenham Mom Lisa Nelder with Avery, Grace, Ava, Clara and Connor and fire fighters Kurtis Barber, Jerome Slater, Rob Driscoll and Chris Holton For the volunteer firefighters at Station 9 in Sydenham, Mother's Day presents the perfect opportunity to both bond with members…