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Certified accountant, genealogist, and florist, cherished friend and teacher, passed from this world she loved so dearly. Raised in Winnipeg, worked in the USA, she and her daughter first came to Frontenac in 1999 to meet living relatives, stand at the cabin of Cota…
May 31, 1934 – January 19, 2016 On Saturday, January 30, we bid farewell to an old friend and long time Eagle Lake cottager, Tom Lucas. Tom’s daughters, Linda, Nancy and Susan had organized a celebration of life at the family’s place of worship, The Church on the Hill, in…
February 25, 1916 – February 05, 2016 Peacefully and with dignity at Pine Meadow, Northbrook, on Friday, February 5, 2016, in her 100th year. Predeceased by her husband Allen, her daughter Marlene Love and her son Stanley. Loving mother to Freda Shanks, of Ardoch, and Janis…
The annual Family Day in the Frontenacs event, which was held at the Frontenac Community Arena in Piccadilly on February 15, had added support this year thanks in part to a $1,125,000 grant to the City of Kingston. The grant will support 45 area municipalities as part of the…
Despite record low temperatures, this year’s four-day Frontenac Heritage Festival was well attended, with crowds turning out for the plethora of events that took place through the long weekend. Friday’s opening ceremony began with greetings from Town Crier Paddy O'Connor and…
On February 11, NAEC students and staff travelled to Calabogie Peaks for a ski trip. A total of 59 students from grades 7-12 attended the trip. For the first part of the day, students partook in skiing lessons and later advanced to other hills. High school student Nathan Baker…
Those who attended this year's Frontenac Heritage Festival variety show on February 12 may recall one new and notable performer who took to the stage. Jen Argyle performed an impressive five-song set at the festival opener, which included a number of classic country and original…
Brian Dunford, the youth coordinator at Northern Frontenac Community Services was manning the door at the Child Care Centre in Sharbot Lake at a recent United Way chili lunch fundraiser that took place there on February 11. Dunford is someone who knows first hand the importance…
It is not the first time that Mr. Hull, a grade 7/8 teacher at Land O'Lakes Public School in Mountain Grove has relied on the use of Canadian Geographic's huge and handy historical floor maps to teach his students about Canadian and world history. Canadian Geographic offers a…
Family Day was created as a kind of sanity day for Ontarians, an excuse to have a day off in February, the month that needed a day off the most but did not have one. When it was created, the other option under consideration was to call it Heritage Day, and even though Family Day…
