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by Dawn Morden, the Mountain Grove Seed Company Seed saving is an integral part of agriculture. People have been saving seeds for thousands of years. Seeds from wild plants were collected and grown again and again over time. The plants evolved into the foods that we eat today.…
One of the conditions that were set out three years ago by South Frontenac Council when they agreed to support turning the former Hartington Schoolhouse, which is township property, over to the Portland District and Area Historical Society for a museum, was that the museum would…
Barb Sproule is not a lifelong resident of the Ompah area, but she has learned to fit in over the years. She spent her first seven years in South Porcupine, near Timmins, but when her father was injured while working in a gold mine, the family moved back home to Ompah, where…
Mel Good likes to say that he was born on Parham Fair Day, September 7, 1920, and “that was the only fair that I have missedsince then.”Mel ended up sitting on the fair board for 50 years and for many of those years he was the MC of the fair.“I never told any off-colour jokes,”…
Fiddleheads are one of the first green vegetables that sprout up in the spring and all we have to do is gather and clean them, then steam or boil them and add butter. The biggest trick is to find a patch and to get to that patch before the tight-headed, edible fiddleheads start…
When Grace United Church in Sydenham closed several years ago, it left the future of the former church building, a large stone hall, in question. It could have become a private home or apartments or a commercial space. Instead, it was leased and is now owned by Southern…
Staff outlines plans to mitigate $255,000 budget pressure In an effort to mitigate the township's $255,000 budget shortfall that resulted from an oversight in the public works total formula, CAO Jim Zimmerman and treasurer J. Michael McGovern presented council with their six…
Councillor Alan Revill has put on paper a set of proposals that he expressed verbally at a meeting of the South Frontenac Committee of the Whole last month. The proposal, which when contacted over the phone earlier this week he said was intended to “get some ideas on the table…
Strategic Plan Consultant Rob Woods presented a draft strategic plan distilled from his meetings with council and staff, and information received from recent public meetings. Woods said the most complex issue was that of growth and development, which requires a clear plan of the…
It never fails. Whenever I see one the Scott Reid’s postcards in the mail, I think there will be a couple of extra letters to the editor to pick from next week, and I am rarely disappointed. After running the response letters there is the inevitable response from the pro-Scott…
