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Then there are those who are afraid of the truth. Keep the population in fear and they're easy to control. If you want to hang onto every word that comes out of the media and the Big House on the hill, go ahead, you're not alone. As for me, and I'm not alone, I see through the…
“They might not have died because of COVID,” said Dr. Samir Sinha, the director of geriatrics at Mount Sinai hospital in Toronto. “But they die because of starvation and dehydration.” Prior to this pandemic we rarely heard about the 1918 Influenza pandemic, many scholars have…
In yet another of his pseudo-referendums, Scott Reid, MP, treats the electors of Lanark, Frontenac and Kingston to a carefully manipulated smorgasbord of alternatives with respect to Bill C-6, aimed at outlawing sexual conversion therapy without the consent of adults and…
This is a letter of recognition and gratitude to Atkinson Home Hardware Building Centre. They absolutely went above and beyond this past week. As most of this community knows about the devastating fire in Verona at The Manor. My husband and I had a vacant unit available for one…
It is with great sadness that the family of Mary Pritchard (nee Kabas), of Burlington Ontario announces her passing peacefully on Sunday, January 10th, 2021 in her 86th year surrounded by her loving family. Mary was a guiding light and shining example of love, compassion and…
No, this is not a letter about how to have safe sex during a pandemic. I'd like to draw a parallel between the sex-ed debate and the government's response to COVID-19. So you don't want your teenager to get pregnant or contract an STD: what do you do? Do you tell them to remain…
Vietta Wood was raised in Snow Road Station. When she was young, her father drove a creamery truck to Tweed several days a week. He used to take Vietta and/or another one of his children with him, when they were old enough. “We would jump out of the truck and open the farm gate.…
Frontenac County has been working with the Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN) on “the gig project” a long-term project aimed at providing very high speed Internet – 1,000 megabits per second to residents throughout Frontenac County. Meanwhile some residents are concerned…
“You have breast cancer.” Those are the words that kicked off my summer of 2020. It all started one morning in June. The kids had just finished up school and we were all ready to begin enjoying the nice weather. I freely admit that I didn’t do regular self assessment on my…
As we approach Valentine’s Day during a pandemic, people are returning to literary classics in search of examples of romance thriving despite the stresses of physical distancing. One could argue that dating has again become something done with careful and minimal touching, with…
