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Fund raising dinner gala boosts caboose coffers

Members of the Central Frontenac Railway Heritage Society attend a gala dinner fundraiser-l-r: Sally Angle, Ann Walsh, Barb Driscoll, Wayne Moase and Shirley Peruniak The first formal fund raising event put on by the Central Frontenac Railway Heritage Society (CFRHS) was a gala…

Sharbot Lake Country Inn

Frank and Sandra White have been working away quietly for years at their home on the Willis Armstrong Road for several years. With their three daughters, the couple moved to the area from Mallorytown when Sandra took a transfer to the Sharbot Lake branch of RBC several years…

Samba Maracuja Visits Sharbot Lake

Samba Maracuja, an eight-piece samba ensemble from Queen's University, brought a bit of sunshine to an otherwise soggy Saturday afternoon at Oso beach in Sharbot Lake on June 26 to the delight of many local music enthusiasts who came out to listen. The band performed a diverse…

Rural Legal Services Faces Pressure to Merge

Ukranian visitors and Rural Legal Services staff in Sharbot Lake. It was an unlikely sight. A group of earnest Ukrainian lawyers were crowded around a table in the cramped board room of Rural Legal Services (RLS) last Friday afternoon, June 25. Through an interpreter, they asked…

Canadian fishing legend “Big” Jim McLaughlin visits Ompah

Canadian sport fishing legend “Big” Jim McLaughlin at the Ompah Community Hall Denis Bedard and Rose Boivin, owners of the Double S Sports Marina in Ompah and hosts of the seventh annual Palmerston Lake Bass Fishing Derby, thrilled area anglers when they invited Canadian sport…

Who to call? 211 comes to KFL&A

Every neighbourhood and every little town has one. They might run the store, work in the post office, or work at a local social services agency. They’re the one person that knows who does what. Once you know who that person is, it saves a lot of time. You just walk up and tell…

“HAM”ing it up at Snow Road Station

HAM radio operator George Williams Emergency Coordinator for Frontenac County Amateur Radio Services George Williams (aka call sign VE3SIQ), organized a field day exercise at Snow Road Station and set up a deployment to allow HAM radio operators from all around North America to…

Students celebrate national aboriginal day at strawberry moon festival

Marcie Webster teaches Hinchinbrooke PS students how to play Dox-en-Eye In celebration of National Aboriginal Day and also marking the end of this year's Aboriginal Education Program called the Story Telling Project, which was run is six local area schools, the Strawberry Moon…

Camp Oconto enters its 86th season

Beginning this season Camp Oconto expands its programming to include campers ages 5-8 (Camp Director Lisa Wilson on far right) Nestled on the north shore of Eagle Lake, Camp Oconto is one of the county’s longest running and oldest camps. Now entering its 86th season, Oconto’s…

What’s up in the sky – July 2010

By Fred Barrett This month and next provide a feast of stellar targets for binoculars and wide field telescopes. There are enough nebulae, galaxies, globular and open clusters to satisfy the greediest of stargazers and most are quite easy to find! There’s a catch though. Isn’t…