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First ever Hinchinbrooke PS ball hockey fundraiser a success

Senior Champions, the Gemmill Giants. Photo by Christine Teal. While Habs fans had a break from the NHL on Sunday, the parking lot at the Frontenac Community arena in Godfrey was teeming with ball hockey players and their fans, when close to 70 players battled it out on May 16…

ACT teams up with Scott Reid to train LFL&A students

SLHS students found our how easy AED training can be, even politicians can be taught. For Scott Reid, it all started with an MP salary increase of $20,000 in 2001, money that he did not need. He asked his constituents if he should turn down the money, or accept it and donate it…

Protecting our cemeteries

Rob Leverty executive director of the OHS spoke of the preservation of cemeteries at the Cloyne and District Historical Society’s AGM Members of the Cloyne and District Historical Society gathered for their AGM on May 17 at the Barrie Hall in Cloyne and were treated to a…

Motor Vehicle Repairs

By Susan Irwin, Executive Director / Lawyer, Rural Legal Services One of the realities of living in this area is the need for a source of reliable transportation. There are no buses, no taxis, no subways, and except for volunteer drivers, good neighbours, family members or…

Oops – errant blasting floods out road, raises landowners’ hackles

Luke Drapeau was changing the oil in his truck one morning in mid-April, when he noticed a couple of Central Frontenac township employees working on his neighbour’s property. He was going to go over to talk to them, but he hung back for a while. “I had an altercation with the…

Central Frontenac Council - May 11/10

Central Frontenac to continue to go slow on septic re-inspections “I believe that summer 2010 should be devoted to the collection of information,” Chief Building Official Ian Trickett said in a report to Central Frontenac Council on the subject of setting up a mandatory septic…

Butternut – an uphill battle to save a part of history

Kevin Hansen measuring a butternut tree. At around 1250 AD the population in one region of what is now the State of Mississippi was denser than that of the city of London, England. The centrepieces of the civilization were massive man-made earthen mounds that were used for…

Farmer’s Market vendors enjoying their new outdoor digs

Brenda Kerr of Maple-Lim Farm Vendors at the Frontenac Farmers Market in Verona enjoyed their first week outdoors and many vendors have set up shop in the New Donna Clarke Memorial Pavilion there. The structure was built as a partnership between the Frontenac Farmers’ Market and…

Dedication and opening of memorial library at Harrowsmith PS

Pat Chase, Laurie Handforth, Tanya Collett, Terra Collett-Stewart and Brenda Hunter outside the new library at HPS Students, staff, community members and school and township dignitaries, along with members of the Handforth and Collett families, gathered on May 6 at Harrowsmith…

NAEC: a Cut Above

On May 3, and May 5, a chainsaw safety course took place at North Addington Education Center. It was certification training, organized for students in the construction program and students in the Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) program. Three students from North Addington…