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What’s Up in the Night Sky? – May 2019 by Fred Barrett

I thought that for this column, I would begin by describing a picture of nothing. “Nothing?”, you say! Well actually, I’m being a bit misleading. The first real picture of a black hole was released by scientists of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration on April 10th. Black…

Growing Tips

My seed orders have arrived and some seeds are already growing , but as I wait impatiently for the real spring to arrive I have browsed once more through seed catalogues and realized just how much information is in them. Not only do seed companies offer dozens more varieties…

Pine Meadow Special Needs Fundraising 2019

Tickets for the annual Pine Meadow Special Needs Fund raffle are now on sale at various locations. The proceeds from the raffle sales go towards monthly excursions for the residents at Pine Meadow Nursing Home in Northbrook. This year, the prizes are a beautiful quilt, funded…

Cinco de Mayo at Holiday Country Manor

When the owners of the Holiday County Manor, Jeff Day and Cor Lee, were living in Toronto, they enjoyed many of the cultural events, and one of their favourites was Cinco de Mayo. They loved the food, the music, the cocktails, and the Pinatas. So, when they realised that the 5th…

Flood warning update on Mississippi Watershed

DALHOUSIE LAKE LEVELS EXPECTED TO INCREASE 2 – 5 CM The Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority is issuing an update to the FLOOD WARNING for the entire MISSISSIPPI RIVER watershed issued April 25, 2019. Rainfall amounts between 10 and 20 mm fell across the watershed…

Shirley Luella Wise

Peacefully, at the North Hastings Hospital in Bancroft on Friday, December 7, 2018. Pre-deceased by her husband Malcolm “Mac” Wise. Dear mother of Sandy Barrington, John (Annette) Barrington, David (Cindy) Barrington, Caroline Barrington and beloved stepmother of Janet Wise,…

Mel Alyea

With family by his side, Mel, in his 80th year, passed away at Lennox and Addington Hospital in Napanee on Monday March 4th, 2019 from a long and complicated history with cancer. Beloved husband for 54 years to Fran (pre-deceased). Dear father to Wendy (Robert) Burk of Brampton…

Frontenac Paramedic Services opts for continuity in leadership as the future becomes uncertain

Gale Chevalier will take over as Chief of Frontenac Paramedics on July 1st. She shouldn’t have any difficulty fitting in, however, since she will be heading a service where she has spent her entire 25-year career as a paramedic. She began working as a Primary Care Paramedic at…

Pen pal correspondence has continued for 82 years

Very few people do anything for 82 years. However, Eileen Whan is a bit different in that regard. You see, at age 93, Whan is still writing to a friend in Quebec — a friend she began writing to when she was 11 years old, 82 years ago. “I was 11 and she was nine,” Whan said. “Her…

Conservation Authorities face 50% funding cut

It’s a busy week for technicians working for Conservation Authorities (CA) in Eastern Ontario. Of the 37 such entities in Ontario, 4 are located in this corner of Eastern Ontario; Mississippi and Rideau Valley Conservation, in the Ottawa River watershed, and Quinte and…