Letters

I have traveled all over the world – 79 countries in fact, and honestly loved Nepal. The people were poor but so kind, decent, hospitable and trustworthy. In fact it was a lot nicer place and population than most first world countries. So if you...

Question for the Day – What is left over from 1837, is unelected, unaccountable, unrepentant, whose “purpose is to protect the Prime Minister”and costs each Canadian about $2,500 each year to the tune of $90 million every year? And how does...

I celebrate the court's decision on assisted suicide because it gives people back some rights over their own body and mind. Society often misuses energy trying fruitlessly to restrict what people do with their own body. I'm grateful that we are...

I'd like to float the idea that at the upcoming All Candidates meetings, we the people get the last word. We get to ask a question, the candidates answer, and then we get an optional ten second closing statement. P.S. on the TFSA: Scott Reid and the...

I think Steve Duggan (Re: Scott Reid's flyer, April 23) was being a bit harsh on Scott Reid. The flyer, for the first time, gives actual choices, rather than the usual, "Are you for/against pedophiles, terrorists, etc." This is a big first step for...

I was talking to a lady who has five riding horses, and she told me that to protect against the ticks that carry Lyme's disease, people should get Guinea Hens, at least one. Their favorite food is ticks. We always had one on our farm to warn us of...

(Letters, April 23, 2015) Dr. Pattenden makes a compelling argument that even I can comprehend and sympathize with, but there is one thing that kills the "bill." The reality is that in nations where euthanasia was/has been/is legalized, it has...

After reading several stories about euthanasia, I thought I’d better let you know our family experiences in the Netherlands about this very slippery slope. My Mom was diagnosed with what the doctor told us was a “sister” of cancer in February...

Once again, Scott Reid's "Keeping in Touch" pamphlet arrived in my mailbox, courtesy of my tax dollars. This one attempts to discredit Justin Trudeau for making a tongue-in-cheek remark about the use of our CF-18s. Fortunately, Mr. Reid shows that...

In response to Jule Koch Brison’s Letter to the Editor in the March 19 edition which claims the recent Supreme Court decision supporting choice for end of life is “subverting democracy”, the following information needs to be available to...

First I would like to correct Mr. Bonnetta. His "Wind resistance in Denbigh", A pril 16 article  is not entirely accurate. This meeting was supposed to be a question answer session not a debate. So how can he come away with the title wind...

I have been reading letters to the editor and feel I must express my opinion regarding assisted suicide. I sat beside my mother, two sisters, a sister-in-law, a brother and a few friends dying with cancer, never wishing any one of them to depart...

I wanted to address questions raised by Martyn Jenkyn (Letters, April 16 ) about a motion to investigate a speed limit on a section of Road #38 around the Hinchinbrooke Transmission Station. The motion came about as a result of a number of...

The Boston Marathon attack was on April 15, 2013. On June 13, 2013, then-Minister Vic Toews announced funding for the Kanishka Project to research the causes and techniques of terrorism. Yet our MP Scott Reid sends out a flyer denigrating the...

The television licence for The Ontario Education Communications Authority, better known as TVO or TV Ontario, is up for renewal this summer.  Cloyne (CICO-DT-92) hosts one of the nine HD digital television transmitters that TVO operates across...

In the 1930s the reeve of the rural municipality of McKillop #220 in Saskatchewan was worried that the citizens of his municipality couldn't afford healthcare. Somehow in the midst of the depression Reeve Anderson and his council managed to find...

Just wanted to say how much I am enjoying Jonathan Davies' column on farms and farmers in Frontenac County. I appreciate getting to know more about opportunities to buy my food locally, but also I really appreciate how Jonathan links the local scene...

I see that Brett Cameron is proposing to get the speed limit reduced on Road 38 between the Hydro substation and White Lake Road because of the bend. Has there been an issue on this part of the road? Perhaps he would like to put 60 km on all bends...

The last couple of weeks I have read letters to the editor from people opposing assisted suicide. I agree that people shouldn’t have the right to die for no reason, but that’s happening anyway; they are just doing it themselves and leaving their...

In order to get re-elected to reduce investments in health care, education and veteran’s support; to cut all environmental protections, to spy on you and protestors, and to subsidize big oil; the Harper Government needs to buy votes. So if you...

On the back page of the March 19th issue of the Frontenac News was a Letter to the editor. This is unusual I thought, and I noticed it was written by my neighbour, Jule Koch, so I read it. I am very glad that I did even though it left me feeling...

A big thank you note to Mayor Francis Smith and the Central Frontenac works crews. I worked for a very large municipality and always heard complaints about everything under the sun and moon. It was nice just every so often I and my fellow municipal...

Councilors, Please reverse your decision on not installing a culvert at the old railway bridge on Road 38 as it would halve the construction time, halve the cost, halve the disruption and make it safer for all who use the highway. By the way, what...

Addington Highlands council (Addington Highlands Council, Mar 19/15)  is wise to take a go-slow response in respect to NextEra Energy's effort to gain support for a huge wind power project that will see 100 turbines blotting the local landscape....

It is interesting to examine the letter ( Re: Addington Highlands Wind Project, Mar 26/15)   written by Mr. Parker Gallant, a well known anti-wind proponent, about the proposed wind project. You also published a letter ( Re: Addington Highlands...

Windmills are beautiful! I object to Councilors Fritsch and Thompson calling windmills "eyesores" (Addington Highlands Council, Mar 19/15) . I happen to think that they are beautiful and I would gladly look at them every day so I could admire their...

Thank you for your extensive report (Addington Highlands Council, Mar 19/15) and commentary (What it is about Wind, Editorial, Mar 19/15) on the possible wind energy project in North Frontenac and Addington Highlands. It is very important to have a...

I, and many others, have lost a good friend who died on Mar 11 in Toronto after a battle with an only recentlydiagnosed aggressive disease. He will be sorely missed by many whose lives he gently touched. He leaves no enemies behind. Carolyn...

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...

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...

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...

I've been wondering a lot about this, these days. Like, when I hear that four of "my" Ministers of the Crown have been doing stuff that is so cockeyed, so dumb, so adverse to ordinary common sense, I don't know where to complain or whom to complain...

Excellent editorial (Highway Robbery in Glenburnie, Feb. 26) on the coming battle with the Province over development rules. The gist of it: The bureaucrats will be saying: If you don't have large-scale development to satisfy our appetite for vast...

Scott Reid is about to help pass the Conservative's "anti-terrorist" Act, which appears to label the organization and members of the Ontario Landowners as "terrorists". During the OLA's attempt to divide Ontario into two new Provinces (one rural...

In the February 26, 2015 of The Frontenac News, it was reported that the Hinchinbrooke Recreation Committee had been awarded $10,000 to pay for a play structure at Parham. While I'm sure that this is a worthwhile endeavour, I was surprised to learn...

There's a song, "Life is like a Mountain Railway". Unfortunately this engineer is not so brave. Grades of any kind leave me breathless. I can no longer walk with my grandchild without 40 feet of hose from an oxygen machine. My days and nights are an...

An excellent letter was submitted by Jule Koch Brison (Euthanasia, Jule Koch)  in your Feb. 12 edition. Are we a Nation of Sheep? Having worked in the health care system (R.T.) and also in a related field for over 40 years, I never heard of, or had...

The dump amnesty load and the cost of maintaining the various Township Halls are budget deliberation footballs every year in Central Frontenac. Taxpayers in Central Frontenac see little enough justification for their property tax bill every year. It...

I hear and read many complaints about the state of the roads in Central Frontenac Township, but I’d like to put in a good word. I usually take Ducharme Road as the fastest route from my home on Long Lake Road into Sharbot Lake, except in the...

Re: assisted suicide debate I wish to respond to this past week's letter (Euthanasia, Jule Koch) and a few opinions of my own. I think that my biggest objection was to the writer's comment that "Every day thousands of people face death with courage...

I had to write in to you after reading the letter (Euthanasia) sent last week by Jule Koch Brison. I have to say that my views on this are completely opposite. Anyone who has watched a loved one dying a slow and painful death can only be relieved to...

Your rant in last week's News (Editorial, The Groundhog ) was inexcusable. To begin, groundhogs are clearly related to the ground (earth) but have no relationship to hogs. Properly called woodchucks, they are really marmots. Ours is Marmota monax...

I take great umbrage at the unbridled attack on the lowly groundhog that appeared in last week's Frontenac News Groundhog Editoria l . At a time when the government of our country has abandoned the aim of any enhancement to the availability of jobs...

February 6 was a black day for Canada when the Supreme Court of Canada decided that murder is the solution to pain and suffering, and struck down the laws against "assisted suicide". Sorry to disappoint the honorable judges, but no amount of suicide...

How much do you love your children, your grand children? How much are you willing to do to protect them? The revised sex education curriculum being proposed by Kathleen Wynne & the Liberal majority provincial government is largely cloaked in...

It was quite a morning! Harrowsmith will never be the same. The carnage, the hysterics, and eventually the demise of Harrowsmith Harvey, the once beloved groundhog. It all started at sunrise when Harvey was rudely awakened by an unruly crowd. He...

There are so many kinda neat things in the Jan. 29 issue of "the News" that I wanted to comment. Item first: Sharbot Lake must have done something to get the Creator's attention, that He sent us such a professional visionary as Mr. A. Kovacs to...

It is not my fault! Teenagers say that frequently. Adults talk around the issue, for instance, reducing the speed limit to 40 km/hr in front of the Granite Ridge High School in Sharbot Lake. Several issues are at play here. The provincial government...

As regards our policing contract: Did anyone think to ask Kingston if they might be interested in expanding its force to cover Frontenac County? Perhaps a Frontenac County Police Department based in Kingston might be a less expensive, and perhaps a...

I want to thank a local business owner, Brad Douglas, at Yourway Home Hardware, for the last seven years of allowing the school bus to load and unload our disabled daughter Shawna at his business. The bus administration deemed it took too long to...