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New floor ball craze at Prince Charles Public School

Prince Charles Public School in Verona has embraced floor ball, the latest international fad in hockey, and judging by the students, it’s a big hit. Billed as “the world's most popular indoor hockey game", it is played by millions of people in over 50 countries world-wide and is…

A tangled web indeed

Danielle Nevins (L) and Andrea Dickinson (R) are the mother-in law/daughter in-law characters (sort of) in Drinking Alone, a North Frontenac Little Theatre Production that runs tonight and tomorrow night and Sunday afternoon at Sharbot Lake High School. Nevins character is…

It’s Complicated …

By Susan Irwin, Executive Director / Lawyer, Rural Legal Services It’s a complicated world and getting more complicated every day. Not a new or terribly profound statement, but it’s a reality that can have an enormous impact on the quality of life for many people. Increasingly…

Central Frontenac Council - Nov 9/10

New planner in the works for Central Frontenac? By Jeff Green Central Frontenac Council received a letter from their planning consultant, Glenn Tunnock, this week, advising them of his pending corporate move to North Bay. As of December 1, Zanderplan Consultants of Perth will…

Optimism abounds for Railway Heritage Society

There have been annual general meetings in the eight-year history of the Central Frontenac Railway Heritage Society that have felt like they might be the last one. The society, which was born out of an interest in building a railway museum at the site of the former Sharbot Lake…

From church services to community services

If all goes well, the abandoned Grace United Church in Sydenham will have a new life as a community centre within the next year or two. The Board of Directors of Southern Frontenac Community Services has decided to move forward with the project, and is now up to the United…

Lions clubs support organ and tissue donations

Photo: Left to Right. Zone Links: Celine Pyle, Sharbot Lake; Nancy Butler, Amherstview; Mary Grace Amann, District A-3 Chair Organ and Tissue Donations; Josef Amann, Region 11 Chair On October 28 in Newburgh, the official unveiling of the Gift of Life Banner Crest for Lion Clubs…

Need money? Call an old friend first

Photo: (l-r) – Bud Clayton, chair - Pine Meadow Management Committee, Jim Wilson – Lion’s Club, Ernest Lapchinski, chair – building committee, Bonnie George - Pine Meadow Administrator, Jane Muston, chair - Land O’Lakes Community Services, Janice Powell, Treasurer, Land O’Lakes…

Strokes for Hope duo win international award

Photo: courtesy of Krista Fazackerley Culminating their three-year effort in support of the redevelopment of the Cancer Centre at Kingston General Hospital, the Strokes Fore Hope golfing duo of Edward Goodfellow, 26, and Andrew Fazackerley, 23, made their final cheque…

Sharbot Lake Natural Health Fair

Photo: 18 vendors attended the 2nd annual Sharbot Lake Natural Health Fair Eighteen vendors took part in the 2nd annual Natural Health Fair at Oso Hall in Sharbot Lake on Nov. 6, offering a number of alternative healing treatments and therapies. Various vendors offered…