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Frontenac Community Arena 40th Anniversary logo design contest

Attention young artists! Are you 18 years old or younger and love to be creative and draw? The Frontenac Community Arena is sponsoring a logo design contest for their 40th Anniversary, which is coming up this year. We will have some cool prizes for the top three finalists. Best…

Online campaign launched to support local resident

Friends of Buck Tibbitt, who lost his home in a devastating lightning strike last October, recently launched an online campaign at Indiegogo's Generosity.com site. The campaign, titled “Help Raise the Roof for Buck”, is located under the Emergencies category on the site. It was…

Volunteers Urgently Needed For Central Frontenac Soccer

The Central Frontenac Soccer Association desperately needs volunteers to help run the 2016 soccer season for the young soccer players of our area. We only need six to eight volunteers to commit a few hours of work to run a successful soccer season for the kids this summer. No…

GREC's Got Talent

A dinner and K-12 talent show will be held at Granite Ridge Education Centre on Thursday, May 5. The chicken dinner will start at 5:30pm and a vegetarian entrée is also available. There will be a pie/cake dessert auction at 6:30, and the talent show starts at 7pm. Dinner is $10…

Pathways for Children & Youth Walk-In Counselling

Pathways for Children & Youth is pleased to add something new to our menu of treatment options. Starting May 11, 2016. We are offering walk-in single-session counselling. There is no referral process, no waiting for a scheduled appointment, and no fee. Just walk-in to our Mill…

Closs, Phillip

In his 67th year on Sat Apr 9 2016. Predeceased by parents Floyd and Martha and infant sister Dianne. Survived by brothers Francis (Cheryl), Wayne (Kathy), sisters Betty (Roger), Karen, Sandra. As per Phil's wishes a family graveside service was held at Ompah cemetary.

Powers, William Donald

Beloved husband of Sylvia Powers, passed away on April 23rd after a long battle with cancer at his home near Mountain Grove. He was born on April 17, 1940 in St. Catharines to Charles Victor Powers and Ada Marjorie Jewiss. Loving father of Maria (Peter Lerch) and Elizabeth (Tim…

Tysick, Doug

Doug passed away in hospital, Perth on Monday April 18th, 2016 after a short illness. He was predeceased by his beloved wife Mary (Joynt) Tysick and his parents Elwood and Helen (Buell) Tysick. He was the loved father of Brian (Linda) Tysick, Brent (Jo-Anne) Tysick and Tracy…

Re: Ontario Parks nixes winter operation of Bon Echo Park

Re: Ontario Parks nixes winter operation of Bon Echo Park, Addington Highlands Council, April 7/16 The “at this time” from the Director of Ontario Parks and the Acting Park Superintendent was really meant as exactly that and a little more clarification might generate the…

Wording in planning is everything!

South Frontenac Township Council proposes to change the Zoning Bylaw pertaining to the 30 m. setback on the lakes in South Frontenac Township at two scheduled Committee of Whole meetings: April 26th or May 10th. Therefore, residents who have dwellings within the 30 m. setback…