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70 years of marriage: “you’ve got to stick it out”

Don and Doris Richie tied the knot on May 19, 1950. On May 19, 2020, South Frontenac Mayor Ron Vandewal made a house call to their Bellrock home to personally deliver congratulations and a certificate from the township to commemorate their 70th wedding anniversary. “I was 16,”…

Community Beautification Project near Arden

Linda Michie has family roots in the Horseshoe Lake area near Arden that go back to United Empire Loyalist days. Her family owned a 216 acre parcel that was sold in the late 1960’s and became a 180 lot waterfront subdivision in the area. The family kept a waterfront front lot…

Markets maybe, but not for everyone

Farmers markets are on hold as of now, with a possibility of coming back later in the summer, but the likelihood of that happening is anyone’s guess. Meanwhile market vendors are selling seedlings and some early season produce through online sales. The Sharbot Lake Farmers…

United Way, Community Foundation, grant program

United Way Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington and the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area are accepting funding applications for the Emergency Community Support Fund (ECSF). The Government of Canada’s Emergency Community Support Fund aims to help charities and…

What’s Up in the Night Sky? May 2020 by Fred Barrett

Well, Comet Atlas was a bust! I said in my April column that it might disintegrate and it did just that. It broke into multiple fragments and now needs a good telescope to be seen. But as luck would have it, there is a new comet that has the potential to give us a nice eye…

Venting to the editor

Even a cursory review of COVID 19’s worldwide distribution suggests two things that fly in the face of our popular social and political view that ‘more is better’. Infection thrives in crowded environments. Large cities, meatpacking plants and retirement/nursing homes have…

Lack of dignity in long term care

In 2020, I find it appalling that our elderly population who are unable to stay in their own homes in their last years of life are being forced to share a room with 3 other people. A curtain being used for privacy is unacceptable. Sharing a bathroom Will it take this pandemic to…

All burn bans off in South Frontenac - all systems go for construction (within distancing guidelines) - tennis courts to reopen May 30

Late on Friday and early on Saturday, South Frontenac township put out releases about the easing of COVID_19 related restrictions in the township Edited versions of the releases are copied below - Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry (MNRF) Lifts Provincial Fire Ban Please…

James Duncan Sergeant (‘Little Jimmy‘)

April 12, 1964 - April 6, 2020 James Duncan Sergeant passed away from cancer at the Stanton Regional Hospital in Yellowknife, NT. Originally from Kingston, James attended Queens University where he completed his Bachelor of Commerce. He began his career in accounting in…

Middleton, Winston

Peacefully at home in Verona surrounded by his family on April 27, 2020, Winston Middleton in his 80th year. Beloved husband of Jo Ann (Lappen) Middleton of 58 years and loving father of Margo Sortberg (Russell), Lisa Ewart, Lauralee Asselstine, Mary Jo Dowker (Ron), and Mark…