Letters

Pine Meadow Nursing Home is a community-owned, not-for-profit nursing home and it is part of Land O' Lakes Community Services (LOLCS.) There is a volunteer Advisory Committee which oversees the operations of the home. LOLCS purchases services from...

In the 1950's Jonas Salk came out with a polio vaccine that was quickly tested on half a million children. No one knew of any long term side effects of the vaccine. Polio was such a dreaded disease that few people were worried about possible side...

I am amazed as well as disappointed after looking through the latest issue of your paper. There was no vitriol. There was no alarm. There was nothing! Our beloved Premier had arbitrarily curtailed certain inalienable rights from within the Canadian...

This kind of bureaucratic nonsense drives me crazy. Did Jeff even ask what the entire cost would be?? My guess is too much $$$.  A lot of people living in Frontenac are experiencing horrible finacial problems during these hard times.  Why, why...

In the past 3 weeks someone, probably a truck with knobby tires, has torn up not only our driveway but also spun and cut ruts in our back ballfield, not once but TWICE. I would please ask that if anyone has any information please call 6133742821 and...

By the time this is published, I expect that the third wave will have exceeded the previous two and we will have let crisis dictate our path forward to deal with the corona virus. Opinions, feelings, hunches, will not matter. Dr. Martin Betts, the...

We live in a world of misinformation and disinformation. As thoughtful and thinking citizens of a free society, it is our responsibility to carefully distill any information provided to us and to make our own independent decisions about what is true...

This is my reply to Janina's objections to the vaccine being 'unproven'. The vaccines are very good at preventing hospitalisations and deaths – up to 100% in some clinical trials. That should be all we need to know. That's what all the mitigation...

The uninformed letters last week from Mary DeBassecourt and Carol Pepper serve only to mislead, and worse, contribute to the vaccine fear and hesitancy which will prevent us from ever achieving the level of community immunity that is needed to put...

The following are my reasons for rolling up my sleeve to get the vaccine: 1. To protect myself and also my family, friends and community. 2. The vaccines have been given to millions of people around the world to stop the spread of this deadly virus....

I would like to congratulate Mayor Francis Smith and staff of Sharbot Lake Family Health Team, Frontenac Paramedics, Central Frontenac Fire Department and to anyone else I may have missed, for organizing such a well run vaccine clinic on March 15,...

Never have I been moved to write a response to a letter to the editor until reading one about climate change. Let's start with birds, birds, birds – hypothetical questions have best use in planning for and adopting solutions. According to the...

I deeply value our Frontenac News community paper. I also appreciate the opportunity to speak out frankly on important issues. I am bewildered at the overwhelming eagerness to receive the COVID shot, considering it is an experimental shot that even...

I want to give a huge thank you to the team at the Sharbot Lake vaccine centre! And also to the doctor's and staff from the Sharbot Lake Medical Centre. I received my covid vaccine earlier this week. The team were organized, professional, friendly...

In the editorial “60 is the new 80 Where Vaccine is Concerned” I found serious information presented in a humourous way.  Is there a certain giddiness about the fact that our area is now receiving vaccines? It’s as if to say, “They (the...

The closing of MOM Restaurant in Verona is the sad end of an era of support and service to our community. MOM was a gathering place for friends and families; a place for celebrations and support; a place to gather after church; a place for...

Perhaps the Frontenac News feels obliged to present “both sides” of the issue of human-induced climate change, but why do so by publishing a letter like the one from Edward Kennedy in your issue of March 11? Mr. Kennedy complains of...

Perhaps the author of the letter headed 'Climate Change'  in last week's paper might be kind enough to let us all know the identity of the unnamed "expert", whom he cites as the source for the torrent of questionable and unattributed statistics...

If someone with experience and knowledge about goat farming is raising concerns about the proposal to invest in a large scale goat dairy operation to be run by inmates at Joyceville Penitentiary by Correctional Services Canada (CSC), shouldn't they...

Having read another report of activism relative to climate change, on the back page of the March 4, 2021 Frontenac News, I wondered how a "Green New Deal" could ever have spread its misrepresentations from the USA to here. Perhaps Isi Ferguson and...

Cameron Monroe's critique of my article on "green concrete" is valuable. Mr. Monroe refined and improved several details of the industrial chemistry of concrete. He also illustrated how lucky we are here in eastern Ontario to have so many...

During some organizing of old files the other day, I came across a tattered notebook in which my father had spent hundreds of hours writing, in a very artistic hand, his thoughts on the economy, social justice and other matters he felt strongly...

Henderson a Hamlet or Village For the last 80 plus years Has now got it’s Death Sentence From our voted in Peers   It is where I went to School And made some new friends Some have moved away And some have decided to stay   Things have changed...

I’ve worked in municipal waste management & diversion for a decade and write to respond to your article on the ‘dirty little secret about recycling.’ (10 Feb. 2021.) Dr. Myra Hird is so correct that addressing climate change requires waste...

It bears repeating that the difference between the taxes in the Frontenac's is startling and concerning. Central Frontenac is 56% higher when compared to South Frontenac and 40% higher when compared to North Frontenac! It has been suggested that the...

I am responding to an article written in your Feb 18th, from Gray Merriam on the topic of Concrete being Green. In my 40th year working in Concrete Technology, I find this abbreviated article misdirecting, and vague.   Concrete produced with...

I'm pleased to see your article about the latest developments on the prison farm front, but there is so much more that needs to be said. As you note in your article, the Correctional Service is in the process of converting the farms at Joyceville...

I would like you to keep the amnesty program. Council members have been whining about the garbage situation forever and ever. I am tired of them blaming the good folks in this township just to extract more money from them. Our township has the...

As we all have had about a week of green covid status, I fear that it will be short lived as many from outside of these areas will flock in and numbers will again jump and we will join the rest of the province in lockdown. Or, alternatively, we can...

I am the owner of four properties located in Central Frontenac, two rental houses, my own residence and an old church that I am renovating. Every single one of these properties came in a miserable state of disrepair, often filled with garbage. I...

The editorial on Page 2 of last week's News accusing eastern Ontario wardens of a "lack of vision" is grossly unfair. While Jeff Green is right to outline the anomalies surrounding the funding of retirement homes such as Pine Meadow in Northbrook,...

I am writing this to let taxpayers know what happens between Central Frontenac Township and me, to warn them they could be next. This is not about the value of my land but about the process that went on and is still going on. In December 2018, a...

The current discussion in North Frontenac with respect to the proposed municipal fee/licence for short term rentals of private property is being conducted amid a plethora of confusing and often misleading terminology Firstly, more so than our...

I would like to congratulate those involved in the K&P trail improvement from Sharbot Lake to Clarendon Station. It is better than 90% of the roads in the county. The only thing that I thought was over the top, was the fencing. A lot of money spent...

As Ontario gently and gingerly tries to restart the engine of the economy and the schools open for business one of the questions likely to be asked will relate to the effectiveness of remote learning. My own experience with remote learning was as a...

I am opposed to the proposal for an addition to the municipal offices in Sharbot Lake, and request that this idea be cancelled permanently. It is morally irresponsible to add on to this building given its location so near the lake, given that the...

Dear Ross, The tax reduction proposal is insulting at several levels. The very thought of the disproportionate allocation favouring the ‘wealthy’ is self-serving for Council at a financial and political level and might even pitch neighbours...

Then there are those who are afraid of the truth. Keep the population in fear and they're easy to control. If you want to hang onto every word that comes out of the media and the Big House on the hill, go ahead, you're not alone. As for me, and I'm...

“They might not have died because of COVID,” said Dr. Samir Sinha, the director of geriatrics at Mount Sinai hospital in Toronto. “But they die because of starvation and dehydration.” Prior to this pandemic we rarely heard about the 1918...

In yet another of his pseudo-referendums, Scott Reid, MP, treats the electors of Lanark, Frontenac and Kingston to a carefully manipulated smorgasbord of alternatives with respect to Bill C-6, aimed at outlawing sexual conversion therapy without the...

This is a letter of recognition and gratitude to Atkinson Home Hardware Building Centre. They absolutely went above and beyond this past week. As most of this community knows about the devastating fire in Verona at The Manor.  My husband and I had...

No, this is not a letter about how to have safe sex during a pandemic. I'd like to draw a parallel between the sex-ed debate and the government's response to COVID-19.   So you don't want your teenager to get pregnant or contract an STD: what do...

We are doing our part however the inconsistency of this government on this matter can be infuriating. This one size fits all, down-from-the-top approach feels uncomfortably totalitarian. At the time of the order in Kingston Frontenac Lennox and...

Last Wednesday, one week to the day following the January 6th U.S. Capitol Hill riot, there arrived in our mailbox a “free sample” newspaper. The front-page headlines, the first couple of paragraphs of the “editorial column”, and the...

I found Dr. Dietrich;s open letter to Randy Hillier (Frontenac News December 20) extremely troubling.  While I agree, wholeheartedly, with the doctor's insistence that good science be embraced in medical decision-making, and that we eschew the...

The United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has been endorsed by 122 nation states. On January 22nd it will become international law for more than 51 countries who have ratified the treaty. These nations recognize the...

Art is a personal expression, and the artwork submitted was to convey a message of hope. How could one be rated over another? How could it be judged? Perhaps Jeff did intend the word to be “content” and not “contest”. I was as moved by the...

Dr. Dietrich's open letter to MPP Hillier presents a different viewpoint on: the severity of the disease, interpretation of statistics and the effectiveness of tests. Each side calls upon cherry picked facts to support their own confirmation bias,...

This is not another letter about Randy Hillier, although quite frankly it mystifies me all this fuss about wearing masks. People don't think twice about wearing shirts and shoes into stores but somehow think that mask wearing is an affront to their...

I just saw a disturbing photo with our "leader", Randy Hillier, at a . gathering of 15 maskless people. He comments "bring on the law suits". My, how brave and altruistic. How many kids and easily steered people are reading this tripe? Everybody...