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Photo: Alana Kapell (L) & Pat Dawson: the artwork between them is by Winona Elliott The imagination and collaboration of three local women, Pat Dawson, Alana Kappell, and Ginny Trousdale, is bringing a whole new art scene to Sydenham. Ginny has turned the upstairs of Trousdale’s…
By Susan Irwin, Executive Director / Lawyer, Rural Legal Services Earlier in the week while on route to Kingston I noticed the driver in the adjacent car talking animatedly on his hand-held cell phone. The gentleman was either blissfully unaware of or deliberately ignoring…
The Central Frontenac Festival of Trees, which is the premier fundraising event for Villages Beautiful, proved so successful when it sprung back to life last year after a one year hiatus, that organisers be presenting it once again in 2009. The entertainment schedule is being…
Editorial by Jeff Green As of Remembrance Day in 2008, 97 Canadians had been killed in the Afghanistan conflict. One year later, the total is 133, making this the deadliest year for Canadian troops during a conflict that is now eight years old. Traditionally we think about WWI…
My War by Ina Hunt Turner Poems Area Remembrance Day Services From Flanders Fields to Kandahar Province Verona Couple's Bittersweet Memoryof Wartime EnglandBy Julie Druker Bob and Ivy Martin at their home near Verona It seems one does not have to look too far to meet men and…
FOTMC founder and organizer Joan Shepherd presents a cheque to Frank Girard, principal at PCPS in Verona for their junior music program On Nov. 6 Joan Shepherd, founder and organizer of the Frontenac Old Time Music Championships (FOTMC), presented a $500 cheque to Frank Girard,…
Portland and District Heritage Society Remembrance day display. Photo courtesy of Ken Brown In recognition of Remembrance Day, the Portland District and Area Heritage Society offered up a display at Saturday’s farmers’ market in Verona, which included a number of interesting…
Sharbot Lake Panthers Senior Girls basketball team. Front row l-r: Nicole Domen, Tiffany Carmichael, Rachel Neadow, Sarah Armstrong, Dana Mika. Back row l-r: Mr. Wes Garrod, Kaitlyn Wilkes, Courtney Meeks, Sarah McCullough, Sami Stencill, Mr. Mike Smith. Photo courtesy of SLHS…
Over three hundred patients from the Sharbot Lake Family Health Team, or 12% of the patient roster, receive counselling and other services from the diabetes team of Nurse Janice Morrow (RN, CDE) and dietitian Melissa Conrad (RD, CDE). That makes the area served by the clinic 50%…
A New Littering By-law Proposed Paul Fodden, on behalf of South Frontenac Natural Environment Committee, made a brief presentation to council, recommending council consider developing a stand-alone littering by-law. Although as several councilors pointed out, littering is…
