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Registration is now open for Frontenac Soccer Association's (FSA) Recreational Youth Summer Soccer League. This league, offering weekly games scheduled between May 4 – July 30, 2015, is for players between the ages of 4 and 21 years. Fees for the 2015 season are $90 per player…
by Helen Halpenny, Lanark County Master Gardeners The snow may be piled high outside, but starting your garden indoors can happen right now. Come February, the light level begins to increase and a sunny windowsill can be the perfect place to get a head start on the gardening…
Last week, my daughter and her friend went missing from school. It was a frightening experience for us, as parents. The staff of the school were well organized and compassionate. The teachers, bus drivers and other parents came to help us in any way they could. The police…
Jeff, your observations regarding groundhogs (Groundhog Day Should be Banned, Editorial, Mar 12/14) were much appreciated. I agree –the belief around groundhogs being the harbingers of spring is a myth. Indeed, my grandfather taught me the true way to predict when spring is on…
Re: Tichborne girl makes a go of it in Parham I really enjoyed the article on Mary Howes: Tichborne girl makes a go of it in Parham, whom I have known for many years. I was a telegraph operator with the CPR for 5 years, having apprenticed under Tom Asseltine in 1955, at the…
October 20, 1929 - March 5, 2015 After a very long struggle with Vascular Dementia, Bob passed peacefully away at the age of 85, with his loving wife Pam Hickman at his side, in Lanark Lodge, Perth, Ontario. Bob was predeceased by his three loving mini-dachshund dogs: Heidi,…
(née Hughes) 1920 - 2015 On Friday, February 27 at The Millwood Retirement Residence (formerly 921 Millwood) in Leaside (Toronto). Devoted wife of 68 years to Robert (died May 24, 2012). Mother of Ron (Kathryn) and John (Elaine). Grandmother of Liza. Daughter of Amos and Eva…
In an effort to teach practical life skills to students in the Limestone District School Board (LDSB), a new pilot project called Slow Cookers for Kids was launched at three Kingston area schools, and last week the three-day program was introduced to grade 7 and 8 students at…
Long before Mary Howes had established herself as a major force in local and regional organisations, she was a young girl from Tichborne who had been raised in a great aunt and uncle's house, near the rail station. After high school she went to Toronto to work, living at another…
In their ongoing efforts to showcase the work of local artists, the Grace Centre Arts Committee held a special artists talk and reception at the Grace Centre in Sydenham on March 1. Three artists, Elaine Farragher, Jill Harris, and Virginia Lavin, whose works will be on display…
