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Conversations worth having - Advance Care Planning

Advance Care Planning (ACP) is an opportunity to share your wishes and choices about your future personal and health care. It is a chance to help others to understand what is important to you, and to be clear on how you wish to live your life and be cared for. This planning is…

Wilna Susanna Whan (Burke)

Peacefully, at the Kingston Health Sciences Centre on Saturday, October 9, 2021. Beloved wife of the late Auldin Whan. Loving mother of Barry, Janice (the late Orie Thompson) and Debbie Whan. Pre-deceased by her parents Richard & Beatrice Burke, her brother Murve Burke and…

Rain doesn’t stop disc golfers at Hunter’s Creek on Saturday

Despite covid restrictions postponing an earlier attempt and various bouts of rain Saturday, the Hunter’s Creek Fall Fling Disc Golf began what the course owners hope will be the harbinger of things to come. “We will have an inaugural tournament, probably in the spring,” said…

B&B Memorial Show & Shine

It was a cruel coincidence that brought the Green and the Chiddle-Young families together. Bailey Green and Blake Young were Frontenac County kids who knew each other from high school, and from their shared passion for riding. They died a few months apart, both as the result of…

South Frontenac Short-term rental petition

Two Verona-area residents have had enough of the shenanigans at “owner-absent” cottage rentals in South Frontenac Township and have decided to do something about it. Rick Ottenhof and his neighbour Gabor Solymar launched an online petition this week to rally South Frontenac…

So far so good for one year in business at 41Cannabis Company

When Darrell and Wendy Thompson decided to convert the old family furniture store in Northbrook last Sept. 18, like all new business owners, they were optimistic but also a little unsure of how things would go. “First year during covid,” Wendy said last Saturday. “It was a…

Central Frontenac Council approves tree replacement plan at beach

Bill Bowick wants to plant some trees, in Sharbot Lake, down at the beach. Bowick appeared as a delegation to the Oct. 12 Central Frontenac Council (online) meeting to pitch his proposal, which he calls “A Greening of the Park.” He said part of his motivation would include a…

Dieppe Blue Beach: Arden Armstrong

Dieppe Blue Beach Every Man Remembered On August 19th, 1942 a combined operations force made up primarily of soldiers from the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, landed on the beaches of Dieppe; also known as Operation Jubilee. The operation would be a full frontal assault on the…

Items from South Frontenac

Hinchinbrooke Road Partial Reopening Anticipated for End of October Following recommendations from the geotechnical engineering review, South Frontenac Township staff have been carrying out grading adjustments within the work zone in preparation for reopening of Hinchinbrooke…

COVID update – Maple Country Home and Farm re-opens

A COVID outbreak at Maple Country Home and Farm, in Inverary, that was announced October 12, led to the temporary closure of the store by owners Suzanne and Kevin Bovey. While the outbreak has not been declared over yet, the majority of those who were impacted have fully…