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The egg race was a big hit this last weekend as part of the Central Frontenac’s District 4 Recreation Committee’s annual Bunny Hop. Children entered colouring contests, made Easter crafts, decorated eggs and cupcakes, and participated in numerous games that involved eggs.…
The Sydenham High School drama club almost passed on the Sears Festival this year when they could not pull together a production they had been planning. Instead, they split into two groups and brought 20 minute long, three actor pieces called Philistines and Farmers and The…
Centre CFDC board chair Liz Crothers and CFDC executive director Anne Pritchard The Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation (CFDC) invited guests to a breakfast at the Trinity United Church in Verona on Mar. 30 to help them celebrate the over 97 projects that have…
In the midst of a North Frontenac Council meeting last week Mayor Ron Maguire said that his second term would be his last. “It is my intention not to run for re-election,” Maguire said, “for the simple reason that I want to try something new. I have had several careers in the…
The South Frontenac Committee of the Whole convened at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, to complete their work on the 2010 budget. When they went into the meeting the budget called for an increase of just under 2% in the amount to be levied against taxpayers, and that’s where they ended, but…
Leah and her mom Angela Neumann Five year old Leah Neumann of Sydenham was recently chosen to be a poster child for the War Amps Child Amputee CHAMPS program, one of the many War Amps programs funded by their annual Key Tag donation campaign. Leah is a testament to the fact that…
Two of the key figures in the development of the Lakeland Family Health Team in Northbrook brought a status report to North Frontenac Council last week. The project manager, Janice Powell from Denbigh, and Kimberly Bain of the Bain Consulting Group reported about the prospects…
Jasper with his latest find. Sometimes treasure is found by the most unlikely of people, and in this case, it was a dog. Jasper, a four year old Akbash who resides in Plevna, dug up a very old box over the weekend. Jasper is known as an energetic digger, often discovering old…
By Fred Barrett We still have the winter constellations gathered around Orion in the South and Southwest during the evening. Fifteen degrees left of the sullen red eye of Betelgeuse on the right shoulder of Orion, you encounter the bright star Procyon in the constellation Canis…
Residents of Verona have joined their festival committee in the search for Cameron, their missing mascot. Only this morning they discovered he had ripped open the side of his double-reinforced pen and escaped into the wild. “We expect he’s headed north, maybe to Tichborne or…
