CENTRAL FRONTENAC

A construction worker training course co-sponsored by the St. Lawrence College Employment Centre in Sharbot Lake and the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation, is wrapping up this week, and Chief Doreen Davis is pleased with the results. The 8 week course...

The Central Frontenac Minor Softball Association kicked off the 2017 season Saturday in Mountain Grove with its registration session. Association president Kurtis Jackson said the on-field season will get underway in mid-May, depending on field...

An open meeting will be hosted by the Sharbot Lake & District Lions Club on April 26th at the S. L. Legion on Cannon Rd. The public is invited to join the Lions for social hour between 5 and 6 PM and then sit down to a delicious dinner ($15 for...

“If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism,” said Lillian Barker-Godfrey as Community Living North Frontenac hosted a games afternoon last Sunday at Oso Hall in conjunction with World Autism Awareness Day....

It was a sweet weekend last Saturday and Sunday as visitors from all over came to the Bell Line Road to visit the maple syrup operations of Oso Sweet Maple Farms (Mel & Joyce Conboy) and George and Darlene Conboy & Sons Maple Syrup. “It’s been...

Central Frontenac Mayor Frances Smith and Kingston Frontenac Public Library Board Chair Claudette Richardson cut the ribbon officially opening the brand new Mountain Grove Library last Friday. The library, which is attached to the fire hall, was...

Central Frontenac Township’s plan, which is now under review, to licence pumper/haulers to do inspections on septic systems “won’t work,” says a long-time area pumper who does 30 per cent of his business in Central Frontenac. “They’ve...

Cam and Michelle Mather came to the new Parham Fire Hall, which includes the Parham branch of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library, on Saturday April 1st. Cam gave an informative and entertaining hour long workshop on organic gardening and then...

Morgan Cowdy (14) and Austin Barker (8) are the bus monitors on a Martin’s bus that takes them to Land O’Lakes Public School (LOLPS) each day. On Monday (March 27) the bus was running late because of icy roads. It was almost at the end of the...

Council cost taxpayers a total of $82,691.07 in 2016 including mileage, professional development and per diem. Mayor Frances Smith was paid $13,462.10 including $1,058.32 in mileage. Dep. Mayor (for 2016) Bill MacDonald received $10,638.82 including...

About 30 people gathered in Oso Hall last week to put together a video celebrating Canada’s 150th Anniversary in Frontenac County with a song aptly titled the Frontenac County 150th Anniversary Song (lyrics by Rudy Hollywood, tune-traditional)....

Central Frontenac Council decided to take another look at how a mandatory septic system inspection program might work, rescinding a motion it made two meetings ago asking staff to come back with a bylaw to be implemented before this summer. The...

Godfrey native Matt Villalta was named Vaughn OHL goaltender of the Month and OHL Rookie of the Month following a stellar May with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds with a 1.34 goals-against average, a .957 save percentage and a 5-1-0-0 record...

This Sunday, April 2nd, is Autism Awareness Day. Community Living North Frontenac is marking the occasion by setting up a series of board games, jigsaw puzzles and snacks at the Oso hall in Sharbot Lake. The festivities run from 1:30 pm unitl 4 pm....

Bob Srigley died on July 28, 2013, three days after being shot 6 times by two OPP officers at his property on the Arden Road in Central Frontenac late on a hot summer afternoon. On February 25, 2014, the Director of the Special Investigations Unit...

The Director of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Tony Loparco, has concluded that there are no reasonable grounds to charge either of two Ontario Provincial Police officers with the Lanark County detachment with a criminal offence in relation...

Community dinners are certainly not new to this area. There are the regular Friday night dinners at the Sharbot Lake Legion. There are excellent breakfasts hosted by the Lions club.  There are pot luck dinners hosted by community groups and...

On March 17, 2017 at approximately 10:15 pm, Sharbot Lake, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers responded to an altercation between two males at a residence on Clement Road in Central Frontenac Township. Investigation indicated that the two...

Central Frontenac Council approved work on the Elm Tree Bridge as part of its 2017 budget at its regular meeting Tuesday night in Sharbot Lake. Outgoing (interim) Public Works Manager Mike Richardson made the recommendation to Council, saying that...

Rehearsals are underway for our North Frontenac Little Theatre spring production under the direction of John Pariselli. The chosen play is is a comedy, Here On The Flight Path by Canadian playwright Norm Foster. This small cast adult comedy is...

Students from the School to Community class at Granite Ridge Education Centre (GREC) in Sharbot Lake posing in front of a Spread the Word to End the Word poster that was signed by Granite Ridge students and staff. The School to Community students at...

About a month ago, Roseanna Redmond got the idea that it might be fun to get some couples together for a bit of ballroom dancing. Ken Fisher thought that was a good idea and “I put the wheels under it.” But they kind of needed an instructor. No...

As The War Amps 2017 Key Tags are mailed across Ontario, local residents may spot a familiar face in the accompanying brochure. Leah Neumann, 12, of Tichborne, was born a right arm amputee, and is a member of The War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP)...

On Feb. 22, students at the Granite Ridge Education Centre celebrated Pink Shirt Day, a tradition that began in Canada to help combat bullying in all its forms. This year, they had help in the person of Abby Stewart, a Holy Cross student who’s...

The balmy weather brought out 34 participants and two dogs on Family Day Monday to raise $300 for the OSO recreation committee rink fund.  The finisher cookies were yummy and very colourful this year.   Runners and walkers were from Sharbot Lake...

Central Frontenac Council adopted a “Septic System Maintenance and Assessment Program” at its regular meeting Tuesday night. It further directed staff to prepare a draft licensing bylaw to licence septic system pumpers and haulers for the...

Time commitments have caused Central Frontenac Mayor Frances Smith to pull back from participation in the 14-municipality Rural Mayors Forum of Eastern Ontario (RMFEO). “The Township is still a member but I personally have had to pull out, chiefly...

When Rosemarie Bowick took on the task of organizing a quilt show for the Frontenac Heritage Festival this year, she wasn’t sure they’d be able meet the mandate of 150 quilts in honour of Canada’s 150th Anniversary. “I only had to make three...

While the sunny skies were welcome for much of the Frontenac Heritage Festival last weekend, the Tichborne venue might have preferred a slightly cooler temperature as the rink featured a bit of water across its surface. Undaunted however, the...

The only thing missing was some guy spinning plates on sticks to Sabre Dance. But as the dust settled, country crooner Zach Teal took top honours in Frontenac’s got talent, the kick-off event at this year’s 11th annual Frontenac Heritage...

With Central Frontenac Council approving the idea in principle at their January meeting, The Seed to Sausage Day of the Pig annual food festival is set to move from the cramped confines of the Seed to Sausage store and butcher shop site on Road 38...

“Everything is falling into place” for the 11th annual Frontenac Heritage Festival this weekend, says organizer Janet Gutowski. It looks like even the weather will be cooperating with partly sunny skies and temperatures around 0 degrees forecast...

(Subsequent to the posting of the article beneath, Central Frontenac Council cut another $80,000 from the budget. The final budget levy to ratepayers is $7.45 million, an increase of 4.1% over 2016. Because total property assessment in the the...

After the first round of budget deliberations for Central Frontenac Council, the magic number is sitting at a 6.2 per cent increase. If the budget were to be finalised tomorrow, that would mean an additional $64 per $100,000 of assessed value to...

Central Frontenac’s committee for the celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday has launched a website to disseminate information about events in the township. It is called cfcanada150.ca. There are also links from the Township site and that of the...

 If you’re an aboriginal youth aged 15-30 and interested in working in the construction business, St. Lawrence College Employment Centre in Sharbot Lake has just the program for you. The Centre is beginning an eight-week course which will be...

There’s a curious trend that’s been developing over the last little while and Central Frontenac Fire Chief Bill Young is all for it. What we’re talking about here is younger firefighters going away to school but returning home on a regular...

As history books, however complete and comprehensive they may be, tend to be rather dry reads. But Marion Sly Hart’s new offering, Hart to Heart, My Life in Poems is not one of those. Make no mistake, it is a history book, the history of the...

It has certainly been a long haul for Andrew Kovacs, but the results are pretty spectacular. When he purchased the former Shabot Lake Senior’s Home in November of 2014 it was a building in need of some major improvements. It had served the...

Stephen Goodberry aka Elvis - aka Neil Diamond - aka Roy Orbison entertained a full crowd at the snowmobile clubhouse. The event was hosted by the Snow Road Community Centre and drew fans from as far away as Oshawa. Stephen was accompanied by his...

“If a Legion Branch had to pay for all the volunteer hours its members spent, no branch could exist,” keynote speaker G1 Zone Commander Terry Shelley told Royal Canadian Legion Branch 334 members and guests at its annual Honours & Awards Dinner...

The Empty Bowls started off in 1990 as a small project by a group of potters working with some chefs in a town in Michigan to give away bowls of soup and allow people to keep the bowls. All that was requested was a donation to a local food based...

Central Frontenac Council held a short in camera session at the end of their regular meeting on Tuesday afternoon (January 24) and then emerged to pass a motion to enter into a contract with Bradley Thake.  After the motion passed Mayor Frances...

Come help us celebrate Canada’s 150th by participating in our 7th annual Polar Plunge as part of our annual Frontenac Heritage Festival. The first toes hit the water on Sunday, February 17th at 12 noon sharp! Our thanks again to Richard Struthers...

Once again this year the Kennebec Recreation Committee is sponsoring Free Pleasure Skating at the Arden rink, 5998 Arden Road. This years’ rink maintenance and operations are being managed by Chase Matson, who in spite of what many would call a...

NFLT said goodbye to one of their own with a lifetime recognition award last Saturday evening at a special ceremony at “The Crossing Pub” in Sharbot Lake. Veteran actor and director Doug MacIntyre has sold his house in Verona and will be moving...

Martin Webster is having trouble focusing these days. He has lived at the Cooke family cottage on Sharbot Lake, off Gordon Crescent, since 1997, next to the house where his mother Deanna lives with his step-father Ronnie Cooke. Now he is fortunate...

One of the more popular events in the annual Frontenac Heritage Festival (Feb. 17 – 20 this year, the Festival’s 11th year) has been the Polar Plunge. You know, it’s the event where brave souls jump into Sharbot Lake down at the marina to...

After a whopping 68 years with the Oso/Central Frontenac Fire Department, Keith Hawley has hung up the bunker gear. “I didn’t like him going out at night any more,” said Irene, his wife of 37 years. Hawley, 87, is the last surviving member of...

Central and North Frontenac Chief Building Official Jeremy Neven tendered his resignation (effective May 26) at Central Frontenac Council’s regular meeting this week in Sharbot Lake. Neven told Council he was taking a similar position with...

The Parham Agricultural Society's Annual General Meeting is slated for 7 pm on January 26th at the United Church Hall in Parham. And according to out-going President Wendy Parliament, at this meeting the group will have to grapple with whether they...