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Photo: Terry Tufts courtesy of Terry Tufts Well known roots/blues guitar player and singer/songwriter Rick Fines will be in South Frontenac offering a guitar workshop at Wintergreen Studios on Canoe Lake Road just east of Godfrey this weekend. Fines, a veteran Canadian…
A new Consultation Office for the Algonquins of Ontario was officially opened today by the Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, and the Honourable Brad Duguid, Ontario Minister of Aboriginal…
The new Ontario “rurality index” grades community health care needs primarily on the basis of population density and their distance from hospitals and other medical services, and will likely put doctor recruitment campaigns in places like Verona at a disadvantage. The new index…
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY 2000-2009: A summary of the last decade’s construction activity, which includes single and seasonal family dwellings, agricultural and commercial buildings, renovations, garages, woodstoves, decks, pools, fences and demolitions showed that 2009 wasn’t as…
It all happened pretty quickly. Deborah Andrews had been the executive director of Southern Frontenac Community Services for only six months, when just before Christmas, she was offered a job at the Community Health Centre of Ottawa South. With a family that remains entrenched…
Prince Charles Public School in Verona, North Addington Education Centre in Cloyne, and Sharbot Lake Public School, are three of 600 schools from across Ontario that will be offering full-day learning, five days a week, for four and five-year-olds starting in September.…
With the addition of our social worker Jen Bergman and our dietician Melissa Conrad over the past few months, we are now fully staffed. Congratulations are due to Janice Morrow who recently achieved her certification as a diabetic education nurse. There is a shortage of health…
“Sometimes we miss being important, miss being needed…” “I’m afraid of losing contact, she’s the only one that understands me, and I’m hard to understand…” “I feel very foolish when I’m wandering around not knowing what I am doing and I’m not always sure how to do it any…
OMB hearing delay rejected An Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing is scheduled for February 2 in Sharbot Lake to consider Central Frontenac Township’s approvals for a five-unit seniors’ home on Clement Road in the township’s Oso ward. At their council meeting on January 12,…
By Lorraine Julien After the first week of December, anyone living north of Highway 7 had loads of snow, then an ice storm and the snow continues to fall. While our snowy world may seem, on the surface, to lack animal activity, keep in mind there can be a beehive of activity…
