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Central Frontenac Council – Feb 8/11

Central and South Frontenac townships are both coming into the modern age when it comes to waste management. Both townships have held committee meetings over the past couple of years to design new processes for dealing with different streams of materials, from glass and plastic,…

Annual South Frontenac Scouts banquet

Photo: Harold Dalmas (bottom right) presented certificates of appreciation to group leaders and volunteers of the 1st Scouts Canada- South Frontenac Group On Feb. 7, over 100 diners gathered at the Free Methodist Church in Harrowsmith for the 1st Scouts Canada - South Frontenac…

What’s Up in the Night Sky – February 2011

By Fred Barrett Supernovas, planetary nebulas, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes. What are they all anyway? It was all over the news recently that 10-year-old Kathryn Gray of Fredericton, New Brunswick, became the youngest person ever to discover an exploding star called…

Letters_11-05

Back to HomeLetters - February 3, 2011Letters: February 3 Re: Proposed Subdivision for Kennebec Lake, Terry Kennedy Re: Civics class fundraiser, Timothy Rigby Re: Daycare Woes, Jennifer Farnum & Mark Saunders Re: Hello Verona, Barnaby, c/o Gordon McGaw, Verona Re: Proposed…

Blossoms

Back to HomeFeature Article - February 3, 2011 A “Blossoming” businessby Julie Druker Photo: Pam Morey of Blossoms Pam Morey of Harrowsmith stumbled across the ad on Kijiji and the rest, as they say, is history - business history. A wife and mother of two, Pam had always wanted…

Central Frontenac firefighters honoured

Photo: CF Fire Chief Mark MacDonald (centre) presents gifts to retired Chaplain Jim Tysick(l) and retired chief paul Lowery (r). Missing is retired Captain Bob Veley, who was unable to attend. On January 29, the firefighters of Central Frontenac Fire and Rescue, District 4,…

A community cookbook with a cause

Photo: Nancy Lansdell, John McDougall and Louise Day In an effort to raise awareness and funds for the Verona and area Find-a-Doc Campaign, the committee of the same name has published a community cookbook. Aptly named “Our Community Cookbook”, the collection offers cooks a…

The Friday Night Ladies - food, fellowship & fun for five bucks

Photo: some members of Sharbot Lakes Friday Night Ladies group at their January meeting For over a decade a group of women from the Sharbot Lake area have been gathering regularly on the last Friday of the month in each other’s homes as a way to share fellowship, a sense of…

2011 Heritage Festival Update

Photo: buttons & axes int he hands of festival, committe members On February 1, members of the Frontenac Heritage Festival Committee held their final pre-festival meeting to shore up this year’s plans and they have added a few more new and exciting events to this year’s roster.…

Alzheimer Society returns to Sharbot Lake

Photo: members of the Alzheimer Society KFLA team Marcel Giroux, Bob Fisher, Patti Dixon-Medora and Vicki Poffley Various members of the Alzheimer Society of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington attended the re-opening of the Sharbot Lake office. Bob Fisher will be manning…