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Pine Meadow Classic cancelled for 2020

The ever-expanding spread of the COVID – 20 pandemic has claimed another victim. For 17 years the Pine Meadow Classic has been an early summer tradition at Hunter’s Creek Golf and Country Club in Cloyne, raising $15,000 - $20,000 regularly for the Pine Meadow Nursing Special…

SF COVID-19 Response: Updates on payments and service delivery

The Township is making every effort to support its residents through these unprecedented times. South Frontenac residents currently enrolled in a monthly water or property tax preauthorized payment plan with the Township, with a withdrawal date of March 31st or April 1st, 2020,…

Burn ban in CF

Effective Friday March 20, 2020, a Total Burn Ban is in affect for all of Central Frontenac until further notice. The fire ban is in response to the COVID-19 crisis and will assist our Emergency Services in not exhausting our Fire Fighters and resources with keeping their safety…

Activity to try while young kids are home

Here is an activity you can try while kids are home waiting for covid19 to subside. Try growing some easy vegetables/fruits from scraps. This activity and may spark your child’s interest in gardening. Some of the easier vegetables you try from scraps are: Romaine lettuce,…

Oversight

Open reading the article on the back page of the Mar 19 edition about the Frontenac athletes returning very recently from Germany, and also upon realizing that your paper comes out of Sharbot Lake with a readership of 12,000 households , I was very surprised to see no mention in…

Just Call

I received a note from a friend last week. In commenting on Covid-19 he said “The last time I was isolated was over 60 years ago when I spent an extended period in the thinking chair for trying to white-wash the family cat.” What a wonderful world we enjoy when someone’s last…

Emotional Economics

I was disappointed to read the letter to the editor entitled "Emotional Economics" in the March 19th edition of the Frontenac News. This letter was critical of the decision by the Kingston, Frontenac Public Library Board to continue to pay its employees during the prescribed…

Emotional Economics - 2

The letter in last week's News, by Mr. Beckingham, is replete with many of the self serving myths which currently infuse extreme neoconservative approaches to economic policy and are fuelling the destruction of the planet, its living things and - people at an alarming rate.…

Littering

We walked up and down from Clow Road to Davy . Picked up garbage from one end to the other. I will never understand people that feel they have the right to toss garbage out there window. Most people have a garbage at home. Why on earth do they feel the right to toss it out. We…

Lakelands Family Heath Team shut down

This just in from Northbrook. The Lakelands Family Team clinic has been closed indefinitely due to a single positive COVID-19 test. "Despite our safety precautions we have one positive - Please take social distancing seriously. We want to reassure the community that KFLA Public…