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NFCS marks long-time volunteers at 30th appreciation event

Every year during Volunteer Appreciation Week, staff at Northern Frontenac Community Services (NFCS) add welcoming people, serving food, and cleaning to their list of responsibilities. This year, to mark the 30th Volunteer Appreciation event for the agency, which itself will be…

Filling Arden with the sounds of music

It started like most good things do - just a bunch of people getting together to share something that they love to do. Back in 1994 a group of seniors would regularly finish off their meetings by gathering around a piano to sing a few songs. Glee Club director Helen Praskey…

Frontenac Fury Bantam Girls win title

The Frontenac Fury Bantam girls travelled to Kanata on March 26-28 to participate in the Kanata Girls House League Hockey Tournament. Twenty bantam house league teams took part in this tournament that included a total of 98 teams from Novice to Intermediate age players. The…

Have caboose, Will move it

The Central Frontenac Railway Heritage Society has purchased a caboose from CN for $5,000. While they are pleased to have an artefact that will become the focal point for their collection, they have one small, or rather, big, problem. How do you move a caboose from Vankleek…

Bullying workshops at local schools

Steve Stresman, the Community Services Officer responsible for the Sharbot Lake detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police, worked with a fellow officer on a presentation about bullying that would connect with students between the ages of 9 and 13. He then offered the workshop…

Verona Lions donate $10,000

From left to right Ian Wilson, Lions Bazil Gillespie, Wayne Conway (President), John McDougall and Judy Conway. Absent from photo Jim Lansdell. Photo taken by Louise Day. The Verona Lions Club donates $10,000 to the University Hospitals Kingston Foundation Children’s Wing. In…

LOLCS finds a home

Fritz Nussberger, ken Douglas Board member Shirley Sedore and Ursula Nussberger It was about three years ago that Susan Andrew Allen and other staff and board members from Land O'Lakes Community Services (LOLCS) were sitting dumbfounded at a meeting of Addington Highlands…

Verona Adopt-a-Barrel flower competition

This summer, Main Street in Verona will showcase the gardening skills of dozens of volunteer gardeners in the First Annual “Adopt-a-Barrel” flower growing competition. The Verona Community Association (VCA) has provided over 35 flower barrels lining Main Street, located in front…

Sharbot Lake students go hungry for famine relief

Sharbot Lake students with Erica Kresin and Dave Gervais at the annual 30 Hour Famine event at Sharbot Lake high school On April 16 & 17, 88 students at Sharbot Lake High School completed the 15th annual 30-Hour Famine, a two-day, overnight fundraiser for World Vision Canada,…

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Back to HomeLetters - April 22, 2010Letters: April 22 Only 9%, EH?, Tim Trickey Central Fronenac Taxes, Norm Landry Firefighters Avert Disaster, Tom Dewey Only 9%, EH? Here we go again! The township wants a new truck; the village of Sharbot Lake wants a new train museum, and…