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Understanding Your Relationship With Food

Hunger is the drive to nourish, fuel and energize our bodies for survival. However, for us humans, physical hunger is not the only reason we might eat, and sometimes it’s not even the main reason. People eat when they are stressed, depressed, bored, or for any number of other…

Keates (Mothersill) Marjorie Maude Lyons

on August 14, 2019 at Fairmount Nursing Home in Glenburnie, Ontario. Marjorie was born in Toronto on June 11, 1921 to Howard and Charlotte Mothersill (Wilson). In 1939 she moved to Kingston with her Mother, Father and Sister . During her time in Kingston she worked at Alcan and…

Donnelly, L. Duane

Passed away at his residence at Van Horne Manor in Smiths Falls on Friday, August 16, 2019 at the age of 87. Beloved husband of Pauline Donnelly (nee Bode). Loving and devoted father of Vanessa (Paul), Jackie (Terry) and Peter (Darlene). Cherished grandfather of Amber, Jessie,…

Health Unit raises the alarm over radon in KFL&A

Over two thirds of South Frontenac residents are living with dangerous levels of radon in the living area of their home. And the numbers aren't much better elsewhere in Frontenac and L&A Counties where over 55% are in the same boat. A study that was initiated partly because of…

“I was like a fly to his fly-paper,” North Frontenac land developer David Hill says of Gypsy Villas in fraud trial

The trial of Jessica Villas on 2 charges of fraud over $5,000 continued in Sharbot Lake on Monday, as part of the once a monthly court proceedings in the Kingston satellite court. The first day of the trial took place in June, and included testimony from the OPP Constable who…

Freak lightning strike triggers first response in South Frontenac

The day started out calmly enough. Brad Telford, who has lived on the Campbell Road near Sydenham with his wife Megan and their 2 1/2 year old son John for about a year and half, did some indoor chores last Saturday morning (August 10) because it was raining. When the weather…

The butterfly lady of Inverary

Susan Sutherland of Loughborough lake has been dubbed 'the butterfly lady of Inverary'. Susan and her husband, Ken Burns have built a safe butterfly hatching habitat called 'the monarch mansion' where the full spectrum of the stages of a monarch butterfly's life cycle can be…

Parham Fair carries on regardless of the weather

If you were sitting in Sharbot Lake Saturday afternoon, you might have thought there’s no way they’re going to get the Parham Fair in today, what with the torrential downpour. But, while it rained in Parham too (albeit not quite as heavy), a little rain isn’t enough to stop a…

South Frontenac Fire Department stages training scenario at Frontenac Community Arena

It’s early on a Tuesday evening. The call comes in that there has been smoke spotted coming from the change rooms at the Frontenac Community Arena. It’s a realistic scenario that South Frontenac Fire and rescue want to be ready for. And so, last Tuesday night, they were out in…

Lions Club of Land O’Lakes celebrates 50 years since being granted charter

A thunderstorm may have cancelled the geocaching event and forced the barbecue indoors, but it didn’t dampen the spirits of the Lions Club of Land O’Lakes, as they gathered in their Northbrook Lions Hall Saturday to celebrate 50 years since their charter was granted. “The actual…