CENTRAL FRONTENAC

Recent events have presented the opportunity for both Central Frontenac Council and the community to address future outdoor recreational activities within the Hamlet of Mountain Grove. In 2007 a 17.5 acre site was purchased in Mountain Grove by the...

The shoe store when it was housed int eh building that is presently the Sharbot Lake Pharmacy. The truck is carrying their float for the Sharbot Lake parade. There has been a shoe store in Sharbot Lake for almost 80 years, but that will change on...

Kristen Watkins, Brenda Bonner of the Sharbot Lake Family Health Team and NIna Jenkins of the Trilium Foundation“. Kingston Literacy & Skills, along with their collaborating community partners, marked Family Literacy Day by opening its first...

Shirley Peruniak has been a reverse snowbird for many years. Just as many seniors are starting to plan their escape to the South in the early fall, Shirley would start the trek from her summer home at Quetico Wilderness Park on the far western edge...

Lynn Shwadchuk focuses on beans at the latest Country Know-how workshop, a very tasty affair. Anyone who questions the validity and versatility of cooking with beans definitely would have reconsidered their stance after attending the most recent...

Central Frontenac cool to ambulance plan With several council members expressing anger about the plan, and none supporting it, Mayor Gutowski will not be supporting a plan to move the Parham Ambulance base to Sharbot Lake at Frontenac County Council...

By Jeff Green, with information from the OPP Sharbot Lake Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is currently investigating the attempted murder of two Sharbot Lake residents. At 3:06 AM OPP were called to a Sharbot Lake residence where a male was outside...

There are six schools in the Limestone District School Board that participate in a program called the Youth Philanthropy Initiative, which is sponsored by the Toskan-Casale Foundation. Sharbot Lake High School (SLHS) is one of those schools, and...

On January 15, Hinchinbrooke Public School hosted a combined New Year’s and Well Wishes Karaoke dance for Kylie Babcock and her family. Kylie's sister, Taylor, is a grade 3 student at the school. Students enjoyed practising their vocal talents to...

Photo: Marcel Giroux, Patti Dixon-Medora and Candace Bertrim Hats off to those who came out to support the Sharbot Lake branch of the Alzheimer’s Society and to Candace Bertrim who organized the first time event. The evening which included a wine...

OMB hearing delay rejected An Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing is scheduled for February 2 in Sharbot Lake to consider Central Frontenac Township’s approvals for a five-unit seniors’ home on Clement Road in the township’s Oso ward. At...

With the addition of our social worker Jen Bergman and our dietician Melissa Conrad over the past few months, we are now fully staffed. Congratulations are due to Janice Morrow who recently achieved her certification as a diabetic education nurse....

David Struthers is a 21-year-old figure skater who has skated out of Montreal for several years, but he was raised in Sharbot Lake, where his biggest fans still live. Vicky Garneys and Richard Struthers are headed to London this weekend to see their...

Godfrey postmistress Shirley McGowan  Shirley McGowan of Godfrey was surprised when the local area manager and supervisor and a few of her Canada Post chums showed up at McGowan’s Store in Godfrey on December 11 on her 68th birthday to present...

Grandmother-by-the-Lake chair Adele Colby of Tichborne Grandmothers-by-the-Lake, the local chapter of the Grandmothers-to-Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation (SLF), which formed two years ago, has been advocating and fundraising on...

Dave Stacey, Manager, Trousdale's Foodland; Brenda Hollinsworth, cashier; John Trousdale, co-owner, Trousdale's Foodland; Sue Clinton, Chair, LC&ERC;  and Trudy Greenside, Cashier.  On December 16, Sue Clinton, Chair of the Loughborough Christmas...

Would you like to make a difference in your community? Do you have some free time to devote to an interesting and fun volunteer project? Do you enjoy seeing people having fun? If you answered yes, then the Agricultural Society would love to hear...

The long-awaited senior school board staff response to a recommendation that a new comprehensive school be built to replace Sharbot Lake Public School, Sharbot Lake High School, and Hinchinbrooke Public School in Parham will be presented to a School...

Council defers web-casting proposal The next time you are home alone on a Saturday night, thinking that there are a billion websites out there and nothing to watch, you might curse Central Frontenac Council for deciding not to post their council...

We were originally expecting a half-dozen folks for the workshop on using wood gas. At least 41 showed up for David Shackleton's interactive talk and the interest isn't going away as you'll see. Readers will remember that wood gas is a cheap...

Rumours started flying as soon as human remains were found by hunters near Raymo Road in the Hinchinbrooke Disrict of Central Frontenac on Friday, November 13. Six years and two weeks earlier, on November 1, 2003, some clothing and papers belonging...

You won’t want to miss “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”, written by Barbara Robinson, being presented next weekend by the North Frontenac Little Theatre. If you were ever in a Christmas pageant as a child, forced to wear your father's...

Roughly 180 grade 7 and 8 students involved in the three Limestone District School Boards Challenge Programs will be participating in the “Challenge for Change - The Antipathy to Apathy”, a symposium that will take place on Wednesday Nov. 25 at...

Luthier Oskar Graf examines a few 6 stringed specimens at the Country Know-how guitar workshop Players of stringed musical instruments from far and wide came out of the wood work on Saturday and had their turn to ask professional luthier Oskar Graf...

As rehearsals for NFLT’s production of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” head into their final weeks, “things are coming together beautifully,” according to stage manager Karin Reynold.   The six shepherds are experimenting with their...

The Limestone District School Board as begun the conversation about the future of schooling in Kingston's west end, as the next stage in the Accomodation Review for the Sharbot Lake family of school has been delayed once again. A meeting of the...

 Lester Whan & Gary Cooke spent a lot of time working ont eh railroad, this summer. The Central Frontenac Railway Museum Organization is no more, but they are closer than ever to their goal. The seven year old group, which was renamed last week as...

A preliminary meeting will be held on Tuesday Night, November 24th, at 6:30 to talk about a planned educational tour of sunny Italy in March of 2011. Claudio Gerebizza, who is an educational travel ambassador with Education First Tours will be on...

Katie Weatherston with her Olympic gold medal. Katie Weatherston has faced her share of adversity during he hockey career, and she shared some of the pain and triumphs that she has experienced with students in Central Frontenac on Tuesday....

Over three hundred patients from the Sharbot Lake Family Health Team, or 12% of the patient roster, receive counselling and other services from the diabetes team of Nurse Janice Morrow (RN, CDE) and dietitian Melissa Conrad (RD, CDE). That makes the...

 Sharbot Lake Panthers Senior Girls basketball team. Front row l-r: Nicole Domen, Tiffany Carmichael, Rachel Neadow, Sarah Armstrong, Dana Mika. Back row l-r: Mr. Wes Garrod, Kaitlyn Wilkes, Courtney Meeks, Sarah McCullough, Sami Stencill, Mr....

The Central Frontenac Festival of Trees, which is the premier fundraising event for Villages Beautiful, proved so successful when it sprung back to life last year after a one year hiatus, that organisers be presenting it once again in 2009. The...

Sharbot Lake, I would like to take this opportunity to thank my community for supporting the Alzheimer’s coffee breaks. We recruited over 30 new hosts in the North and Central Frontenacs, both businesses and private individuals to put the coffee...

Arden wants to be first in line for 2010 Central Frontenac budget “We certainly can squeak,” said Ardenite Patrick Maloney when Central Frontenac Councilor Bob Harvey said the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Maloney was heading a delegation from...

Delaney and Ainsley MacDonald, hard at work, using the new netbbook computers. In terms of technology, St. James Major is proving to be the Little School That Could, and part of its advantage comes from its small size. With only 22 students in the...

Ina Hunt Turner writes of her experiences as a child in Holland during World War 2. She presently lived in Arden, Ontario. Before I was sent away from Amsterdam, away from my mom to live in the countryside with the farmers, we were slowly running...

According to Producer Craig Godfrey, the upcoming production by North Frontenac Little Theatre is actually a play based on the popular short story by Barbara Robinson. The comedy, which has a play within the play, follows the small town church group...

Reverend Mark Hudsun beside the pile of rock, removed from behind the Pentecostal church. The church of Jesus Christ may be built on a Rock, but since Rev. Mark Hudson arrived at Sharbot Lake Pentecostal Church (SLPC) in May of this year, he has...

SLHS School to Community student Mitchell Combe in the Snoezelen Room’s “Floating Leaf” chair Teachers and staff at Sharbot Lake High School are continuing their fundraising efforts to purchase a Snoezelen (pronounced “SNOOzelen”) Room for...

Dog owners meet for first annual Sharbot Lake “Walk for Dog Guides” For new Sharbot Lake and District Lions’ member Carolyn Bond (who also happens to own three dogs of her own), it was a no brainer that she be the Lion to initiate and...

Photo: Irene Monds and Linda Godfrey On September 12, 2009, a long-time dream of mine was realized when 80 people gathered for a Godfrey family reunion at the Arden Legion. I started researching my family’s genealogy to pass the time while...

Photo: Atom boys gave it their all at the 9th annual Joe Goodfellow Memorial Race at HPS On Oct. 5 over 400 students from 14 different north eastern schools in the LDSB participated in the Joe Goodfellow Memorial Race Region 3 Meet held at...

Photo: Police investigate on the snowmobile trail leading to Bass Lake. Photo courtesy Linda Gray According to a report that has been confirmed by the OPP, a homemade bomb was found on a snowmobile trail near Mountain Grove on Saturday Sept. 26....

Council does not concur with Rogers over Tower Rogers Communications would like to put up a cell phone tower at Harold Burke Road and Highway 7, on property that is owned by the Ministry of Transportation. They sent a letter to the township asking...

Lynn Taylor, Janet Barr and Shirley Dewey. The Children’s Christmas Spree was a great success. The events took place in Sharbot Lake at the Child Centre, in Parham at the Oddfellows’ Hall, in Arden with the Red Hat Ladies, and in Plevna at the...

Councilors see their money slipping away Consultant Rob Wood and Anne Marie Young, new Frontenac County Manager for Economic Development, addressed Central Frontenac Council on Monday night about the community consultations that have taken place as...

Students Adam Smith and Troy Clelland with Geoffrey Murray (centre). High school students aren’t commonly known to continue their school work over the holidays, but some at Sharbot Lake HS did just that this past Christmas. Students in the...

Colleen Cosens and Japhy Sullivan perform "All Throught the Night" during the penny whistle portion of the show. Three years ago, the Blue Skies Community Fiddle Orchestra was forced to re-schedule their Christmas Concert to January because of an...

Sherri Whan & school librarian Glenda Young. After 30 years as the resource centre’s educational assistant at both Hinchinbrooke and Land O’ Lakes public schools, Glenda Young has decided that it is time to move on. So, after Christmas she...