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Fundraising for a Snoezelen room at SLHS

SLHS School to Community student Mitchell Combe in the Snoezelen Room’s “Floating Leaf” chair Teachers and staff at Sharbot Lake High School are continuing their fundraising efforts to purchase a Snoezelen (pronounced “SNOOzelen”) Room for the school, to be used by students in…

Rocking the church

Reverend Mark Hudsun beside the pile of rock, removed from behind the Pentecostal church. The church of Jesus Christ may be built on a Rock, but since Rev. Mark Hudson arrived at Sharbot Lake Pentecostal Church (SLPC) in May of this year, he has embarked on a course that has…

South Frontenac Council - Nov. 9, 2009

Slip lane or slippery slope – Robinson argues for rebate Bill Robinson is one angry councilor and he doesn’t mind letting people know about it. “It’s so close to discrimination, as far as I’m concerned, that it is discrimination,” he said in an interview on Tuesday afternoon.…

Transportation collaborative awaits county approval

Sue Leslie, Jane Drew, Deborah Andrews, and Dean Walsh slipped quietly into the back of the room at a Frontenac Council meeting a week or so ago (October 27). They were a bit nervous, and they had every reason to be. Sue Leslie, Executive Director of Northern Frontenac Community…

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: Neither a pageant nor a concert

According to Producer Craig Godfrey, the upcoming production by North Frontenac Little Theatre is actually a play based on the popular short story by Barbara Robinson. The comedy, which has a play within the play, follows the small town church group as they try to prepare for…

Harrowsmith community supports New Leaf Link program

Mural completed by Nicolas, Stefan, Amy and Joel, participants in the New Leaf Link's equestrian/arts program. Photo courtesy Dr. Karin Steiner Dr. Karin Steiner, executive director of New Leak Link (NeLL), a not-for-profit, charitable educational program dedicated to the…

My War

Ina Hunt Turner writes of her experiences as a child in Holland during World War 2. She presently lived in Arden, Ontario. Before I was sent away from Amsterdam, away from my mom to live in the countryside with the farmers, we were slowly running out of resources to feed…

Letters: November 5, 2009

NIHI (No Internet Highspeed Insight), Ed Nowicki Lions Vision Screening, Bill Robinson Bear Shock, Andrea Dickinson Re: Letter “Patriot Missiles”, Chantell Nixon NIHI (No Internet Highspeed Insight) I can understand why North Frontenac wants out. South Frontenac keeps getting…

Scrambling but coping in Frontenac and L&A

For the most part, the roll out of the vaccination program through the 6 medical clinics in Frontenac and rural Lennox and Addington Counties has been smooth. A clinic in Harrowsmith immunized 1,000 people last Thursday and in Sharbot Lake a similar number have received the…

Halloween fundraiser for the new Gilda’s Club of Southeastern Ontario

Etta Cerisano, Joanne Franke and Anita Alton at the Sydehman fundraiser for the new Gilda's Club of Southeastern Ontario Keeping in the spirit of the late Gilda Radner, the comedian of Saturday Night Live fame who succumbed to ovarian cancer at the age of 42, Anita Alton and…