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Author chronicles an almost fifty-year relationship between two unlikely people

Life with Dick portrays one couple’s relationship - how they met, married had children, and have lived their lives together for almost fifty years. The author writes of the highs and lows in life, sometimes with a sense of the absurd. Jan, a farmer’s daughter, is determined to…

NAEC Trick or Eat

The students of North Addington Education Centre suited up on October 31st in their Campbell’s Soup Costumes, to collect items for the food bank. About ten secondary students were spread out between Flinton, Northbrook, and Cloyne to collect non-perishable food items, instead of…

What’s Up in the Night Sky? – November 2018

This should be a very interesting month! We have a comet or two, a sky filling meteor storm and the Moon gives Mars a haircut on the 15th. I’ll start first with the Leonid meteor shower. The Leonid shower roars to its peak on the 17th but the shower is active from about November…

Ringing of bells and gravesite flags to commemorate Armistice 100

OTTAWA, Oct. 24, 2018 /CNW/ - With five symbolic peals from the HMCS Carleton Naval Bell, The Royal Canadian Legion in partnership with Veterans Affairs Canada launched Bells of Peace in Ottawa today. The initiative honours the 100thanniversary of the signing of the Armistice…

Bat cave a big hit at Kennebec Halloween party

“There aren’t as many children in the community as there were when we started this 16 years ago, but we do have more grandparents coming out and they seem to be enjoying themselves,” said Wanda Harrison, chief organizer of Kennebec Rec’s annual kids Halloween party. “Actually,…

Frontenac Farmers Market ends season on a chilly dark day

“Yes, surprisingly enough, we don’t plan to come out next week in the cold,” Frontenac Farmers Market director Laura Simmons said last Saturday as the Market closed for the season. Even though is was a chilly day with overcast skies, the rain held off in the morning and there…

Baked goods go quickly at Women’s Institute craft and bake sale

With more than an hour to go, the baked goods were down to a precious few at the Sydenham Women’s Institute Craft and Bake Sale Saturday at the Grace Centre in Sydenham. They’d started the morning with three full tables and now they were down to less than half a table. The Girl…

North Frontenac unravelling history — “one tombstone at a time”

The Clar-Mill Community Archives’ latest project is cataloguing North Frontenac’s cemeteries and as such coordinator Brenda Martin was at North Frontenac’s regular Council meeting last Friday in Plevna to outline how they plan to go about it. “One of the first mysteries to…

Sport a mo, save a bro

Sporting pink "MO's" the team leaders of ' In the Pink", a breast cancer support group based in South Frontenac, flank their generous sponsor Christine Kennedy, the owner of Memory Lane Flowers in Sydenham. This is to remind all guys out there that November is dedicated to male…

Ruttan returns, but change may be afoot at Limestone

The Frontenac County trustees are set to become part of the old guard on the board of trustees for the Limestone District School Board come December 12th. Suzanne Ruttan easily held off the challenge from Roger Curtis, receiving 3659 votes to 1672 for Curtis, to return to the…