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Passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at Providence Care on Monday, May 8, 2017, in his 81st year. Beloved husband, soulmate, and best friend of Vera (nee Warren) of 61 years. Brother to Lois Goodberry (late Arnold). Dear father of Steven (Cheryl), Richard (Heather),…
From what I keep reading in the papers, Frontenac County is keen to market itself to visitors from outside our borders. The separate townships are coming up with tourism hooks based on geographic features that define them, like cat-tails, dark skies or limestone outcroppings.…
I suffer from chronic sinusitis caused by environmental pollution including the chief villain, second hand smoke. I have never smoked myself. When I am in contact with second hand smoke, my condition is exacerbated and I am smothered, nauseated, and if the concentration is…
I'm worried about our Mayor. At the last Council meeting the Desert Lake Family Resort was given permission to extend a number of its musical presentations beyond the normal bylaw hours. Desert Lake residents - and I am one, are not happy about that. However, my worry about the…
I appreciate your continuing coverage of the electoral reform issue, including your February outline of MP Scott Reid’s sensible comments, and last week’s story about the idea of “weighting” votes in Parliament rather than incorporating proportionality into the actual electoral…
Each year the Limestone District school Board gathers thousands of students together for a dance party known as the Celebration of Dance. This large gathering of students (which was held at Old Fort Henry again this year) provides an opportunity to celebrate movement and…
The Frontenac Stewardship Foundation held it annual retreat at the Queen’s University Biological Station (QUBS) this year. The location, on Lake Opinicon, is emblematic of Frontenac County in that it sits at the edge of the Canadian Shield, having one foot in the fractured…
Marco Smits, the communication’s officer with Frontenac County, is also a proud transplanted Canadian of Dutch heritage. When he became a Canadian citizen in 2005, someone told him that the flag that is raised over the Peace Tower each day is only used for one day and is then…
Oso Hall in Sharbot Lake often functions as Provincial Court but last Saturday, it became a slightly different ‘Court’ as the Sharbot Lake Leos Club held its first ever Jail ’n’ Bail to raise funds for the Food Bank. President Annika Putnam, who also served as ‘judge,’ said the…
In a well-planned departure from school routine, four Loughborough Public School grades 1-3 classes, their teachers and a variety of parents and community volunteers spent two weeks in Frontenac Park, participating in a “classroom without walls”. The children were divided into…
