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MasoniChIP Child Identification clinic

Betty Anne Blyth, Sharbot Lake & District Lions, and Kathleen White, Sharbot Lake Royal Canadian Legion, operate a station. On average, there are 55 missing children reports filed in Ontario every day. Fortunately, in the vast majority of cases, the child is not at serious risk…

What’s Up In the Sky - May 2010

By Fred Barrett The constellation Virgo is prominent in the South at mid-evening this month. In many cultures she is identified with purity, maidens and fertility. In ancient times she was a goddess who represented the harvest and growing crops. It is especially suitable then…

NAEC Earth Day

In the month of April, on the 22nd day, a very special thing is celebrated every year, Earth Day. Earth Day is a day to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. It's celebrated in multiple countries each year and everyone participates in the appreciation…

Frontenac County Council – Apr. 21/10

Frontenac County sees energy production as economic driver Frontenac County Council is looking to the wind farm on Wolfe Island as the catalyst for the county to establish itself as “the alternative energy capital of Ontario”, according to Frontenac Islands Mayor Jim Vanden…

Sydenham High School celebrates Earth Day

Shelby Vickery explored using tap water as a form of electricity at Sydenham High School’s Earth Day Carousel. On April 22 as part of their focus on Earth Day, students at Sydenham High School participated in the Earth Day Carousel, a display of student projects whose focus was…

Family asks for prayers, support for Dylan Walker

Five-year-old Dylan Walker, of Plevna and Northbrook, has been fighting cancer since being diagnosed with neuroblastoma on Remembrance Day of last year. His treatments have taken him and his parents to Kingston for months, and now to Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto. Dylan has been…

Ompah’s spring ATV run draws a crowd

Paul Tyrrell, Dawn Parks, Joe Doran and Rob Doran rode 97 km in the Ompah volunteer fire fighters annual Spring ATV run on April 24. The fourth Annual Ompah Volunteer Firefighters’ Spring ATV run took place on April 24. Over 625 participants took part in the 97 km run that took…

Two big projects break ground in Sydenham

Sydenham library groundbreaking ceremony-l-r: Claudette Richardson- chair of the Kingston Frontenac Library Board, Mayor and Warden Gary Davison and John McDougall chair of the library redevelopment committee On April 26, two back-to-back ground breaking ceremonies took place in…

Preparing for Band Bash

Ainsley Jeffrey, Leah Gurr, Anne Archer, Katelyn Doreen and Katie McNichols Students at Loughborough Public School were getting in one of their last regular rehearsals for Band Bash, the upcoming annual concert for 300 students in Limestone District School Board schools. The…

North Frontenac Council – Apr. 22/10

Budget approved in North Frontenac At a public meeting on April 22 preceding the formal adoption of the 2010 North Frontenac budget, Treasurer/CAO Cheryl Robson made a detailed presentation of the budget highlights, including the impact of Education and Frontenac County tax…