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Campbell, Jean Greta

OBITUARIES · Mar 25, 2020

Peacefully at the Kingston Health Science Centre on Monday March 16, 2020 in her 95th year. Beloved wife of the late Glenn Campbell. Dear mother of the late Heather Fox (Doug), the late Ronald Campbell. Survived by granddaughter Sasha Campbell (Daniel). Predeceased by grandsons…

Unusual beginning to North Frontenac Council meeting

NORTH FRONTENAC · Mar 25, 2020

Last Friday’s North Frontenac Township Council meeting began with a definite air of surrealism. Before entering the Council chambers, everyone, councillors and staff included, was led by firefighter Robert Rutherford, one at a time, to Geoff Culp and Marc Guilbault, who asked…

Verona now features world’s first drive-through Hardware Store

SOUTH FRONTENAC · Mar 25, 2020

Like just about all business owners these days, Asselstine Hardware owner Andrew Asselstine is concerned over the health and safety of his staff and customers. So, this past weekend, he built a little drive-through kiosk onto the front of the store where he can serve customers…

Got a full belly? Thank your local grocer

FRONTENAC COUNTY · Mar 25, 2020

The grocery business is tough in normal times, and these are not normal times. Stores are adept at tracking the sales of hundreds of product lines by the day, week, and month in order to stock what people are looking for most or all of the time. Ten days ago, well ingrained…

What a week, and there is more to come

Editorials · Mar 25, 2020

It has been an unprecedented in week in the life of the county, the province, and our little corner of it. The scope of it started to come clear to me last Thursday when I was driving down Road 38 to deliver papers to post offices at about 7:15. When I pulled out the Verona Post…

Canadian Science Controlled a Deadly Virus Long Ago

Editorials · Mar 25, 2020

Canadian science showed its superior ability with viruses long before COVID19. The National Microbiology Laboratory opened in Winnipeg in 1998, providing a Level 4 (highest) microbiological containment facility. Heinz Feldman, a researcher studying hemorrhagic fevers, joined the…

Maple syrup a hobby made for self-isolating

SOUTH FRONTENAC · Mar 25, 2020

Tom Revell loves his maple syrup . . . and he loves making it. So, when a friend gave him an evaporator back in 2014, he couldn’t wait to fire it up behind his garage on Bauder Lane. Fast forward to 2018. Revell was starting to get seriously into this new hobby and realized that…

Food producers react to changing times

FRONTENAC COUNTY · Mar 25, 2020

Mike Mckenzie of Seed to Sausage saw his sales tumble, overnight, when the restaurant business collapsed two weeks ago, and was subsequently closed entirely. After laying off his hourly employees, he was trying to figure how to find enough work to keep his four salaried…

Care Mongering takes off in Sharbot Lake

CENTRAL FRONTENAC · Mar 25, 2020

A little over a week ago, Amrit Kaillon was watching tv and saw an item about Caremongering Facebook sites, a Canadian idea that is taking hold across the world. The idea is simple, instead of promoting fear, caremongering is a Facebook page devoted to people coming together to…

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