SOUTH FRONTENAC

Three years ago. In 2013 Jan Miller published Dear George, a book about her experiences as a counsellor using Neuro-Linguistic Therapy. A the time she said the key to all the work she did was communication. Three years later, now retired as a...

South Frontenac Council met as a Committee of the Whole on Saturday morning (November 12) to go over the 2017 township budget. Parts of the budget had been brought to committee meetings as far back as early September, but this was the first time the...

Council opened with a minute of silence in memory of Eileen Sleeth, recognized as one of South Frontenac’s 2016 Volunteers of the Year, and wife of Councillor Ron Sleeth. Fees for Sale of Public Lands and Road Allowances Deputy Mayor Sutherland...

On November 12, 2016 at approximately 10:00 pm Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was dispatched to a Break and Enter in progress on Sunset Shores Lane in the Township of South Frontenac. While police were travelling on Sunset Shores Lane,...

The Sydenham Golden Eagles Junior Football team got off to a great start in their game against the Frontenac Secondary School Falcons at Richardson Stadium in Kingston on Saturday afternoon (November 5). The two teams had been the class of the...

Teddy Brown has loved cows longer than she has known them. Standing in a barn at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto less than 18 hours before she is to represent Frontenac County in the 4-H Showmanship and Conformation class, she smiled when asked...

Last Saturday afternoon, a crowd of friends and co-workers gathered to honour Bert Korporaal on his retirement from 40 years of park work, the last 30 as Assistant Parks Superintendent of Frontenac Provincial Park. Bert has played an important role...

The meeting began with a minute of silence for remembrance. FIT 5.0 Solar Projects Two proposals were brought to Council hoping for Township endorsement which, although not essential to the final project, can be a help in getting further approval....

Cool weather is soup weather. Luckily, the annual VISIONSoup community fund raising event will be held at the Grace Centre, 4295 Stage Coach Road, Sydenham, on Saturday, November 19 from 11:30am to 1:30pm. Guests will receive a beautiful hand-made...

and a challenge for the High School next door A long parade of costumed children from Loughborough Public School trudged through Sydenham last Monday on a special mission. Each carried an item to leave at Southern Frontenac Community Service’s...

Father Giuseppe Gagliano is still a young man as he prepares to take on a large rural ministry, the St. Francis Regional Ministry outside of the City of Sherbrooke in Quebec’s eastern townships. As a 27-year-old Anglican priest, it will be a...

Six months after losing its liquor store, Inverary has an outlet once again. Reta Azulay, the owner/manager of Northway Home Hardware on Perth Road, leased the space where the store had been located before it closed when the leaseholder retired in...

An inconspicuous escarpment in northwest France has captured the imagination of a 16-year-old girl from Canada. “They’re heroes,” Shannon Suffron said quietly, referring to the Canadians who fought for control of the 8km escarpment in World...

The traditional Remembrance Day services are returning to the Cenotaph at McMullen Park in Verona on November 11. After a break of a few years, local veterans will be able to mark the solemn occasion in Verona once again. The Verona Community...

Thirty-two boys and girls aged six to 10 are taking part in a unique hockey development program to promote a love of hockey and physical activity. Hosted by the Frontenac Fury Girls' Hockey Association, the First Shift program allows students who...

Things somehow got a little out of hand at Loughborough Public School last Thursday, October 27, and it was all because some of the teachers at the school thought the students might respond to a little incentive during the annual Terry Fox fund...

On Saturday October 22, the KFL&A Food Policy Council held an afternoon meeting at Grace Centre in Sydenham to discuss food-related issues. The overall focus was on food security, but underlying this were the stark statistics related to the other...

Willowbank Subdivision Inverary Council approved the amount of $3,364 for the required cash-in-lieu of parkland for Phase 1 of this subdivision which is located on Perth Road near Davison Road. Right-of-Way Closure Storrington In a close vote,...

Growing up north of Verona in the vicinity of Oak Flats, Kyle Ruttan became interested in the naval forces thanks to his great grandfather, Clifford McGinnis, from Sharbot Lake. McGInnis served aboard HMCS Strathadam for four years during the Second...

CFB BORDEN, Ont. - Over 300 sea, army and air cadets from across Eastern Ontario competed in the Central Region Orienteering Competition Series at the Gould Lake Conservation Area north of Sydenham on October 15, 2016. Central Region is broken up...

Kelli McRobert has come home to a hero’s welcome after representing Canada in the World Obstacle Course Race Championships on the unforgiving Blue Mountain. A resident of Inverary, McRobert competed against some of the greatest obstacle course...

After working as waitresses at the Rose and Crown in Kingston for 12 years, Denise Redmond and Judy Peters are coming home. More accurately, they will start staying home. Instead of driving to Kingston for work each day, they will be running their...

New Planning Fees Proposed Planner Lindsay Mills presented the committee a proposal for a revised fee structure for planning applications. The intent is to bring these fees more into line with the actual cost of processing applications for...

A group of concerned Hartington residents gathered at Princess Anne Community Centre on Saturday to protest the new Boyce Road subdivision plan in Hartington. They were there to support 15 grandmothers who walked five kilometres from the community...

The Inverary Youth Activities Association needs your help! We are trying to build a children’s playground in Ken Garrett Park, a well-known ball park in the region. It has three ball diamonds, two with lights for night-time games. The ball...

“This is food I grew up with,” said local farmer, Ernie Sands of Sands Produce from Battersea, in regards to all the organic, locally grown products for sale at the Frontenac Farmers’ Market (FFM). The FFM has been a hot spot in the township...

Harrowsmith Community Improvement Plan Council passed two by-laws necessary to formally approve the Harrowsmith Community Improvement Plan (CIP). Residents of Verona, Sharbot Lake and North Frontenac will already be familiar with CIPs, which make it...

More than 8% of households in the Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington area live with food insecurity. That's one in 12 households who do not know if there will be enough food next week or next month (from the 2016 Vital Signs report of the...

Mike Stapley is tired of running. A survivor of a wildfire that destroyed his home in Fort McMurray earlier this year, the proud man sighed deeply as he talked about his current predicament. “If we have to move again, it will be four schools in...

Paige Knox, a grade 7 student at Harrowsmith Public School, submitted the winning entry in the 40th anniversary logo contest for the Frontenac Arena, and the logo she designed will be on centre ice at the arena throughout the anniversary season....

On October 9, some of our "Stock Sport" folks from the Kingston and Area Ice Stock Club (KAISC) traveled to Kitchener, Waterloo to participate in the Ontario Masters Stock Sport final tournament of the season at the Concordia Club lanes. Kingston...

The village of Battersea in South Frontenac is preparing to replace outdated playground equipment in its community park. The campaign is an initiative by local residents who want children to have new and improved play structures. Located behind the...

Kelli McRobert is on a mission. Sitting in her home in Inverary on a Friday afternoon in the fall of 2016, she smiled when asked her age. “I’m 50,” she replied with a grin. “That’s what started this all.” “This”, according to...

I met Kevin Wenkoff, of Bellrock, South Frontenac, at his apiary beyond their wild flower and herb garden. Kevin is a full-time school teacher and keeps a hobby apiary of four colonies of Russian honeybees on his two-acre property. Any honey that he...

Fermoy Hall request well received Donna Garland appeared before the committee on behalf of a group of Fermoy Hall supporters who have been meeting this summer to talk about bringing the hall back into use. The Fermoy Hall is located at the top of...

Peter Mouncey has taken over the role as school principal at Prince Charles Public School in Verona for the 2016-2017 school year. “I truly believe in education, particularly public education, as something that can be transformative,” he says....

October 1 was an overcast day, which brings the right kind of lighting to work with bright colours. It was also the right temperature for people working outdoors, painting boards graffiti-style on an old farmstead just east of Godfrey. German...

Council balks at Campground Proposal The owner of Skycroft, a 65-site campground on Opinicon Lake in the north-eastern corner of South Frontenac (Bedford District) is seeking re-zoning in order to build a new campground on a lot that borders his...

The breast cancer support group, which met monthly at St. Paul's United Church in Harrowsmith, will now meet at Riverside United Church in Yarker, across from the fire hall. Meetings will be on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 12 noon. The next...

The Kingston Ceili Band kicked off the fall and winter Bellrock community event program at the Bellrock Hall on Sept. 24. Around 40 people gathered at the schoolhouse to enjoy a taste of Ireland and Scotland right in their own back yard, and the...

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the spring, who reaps a harvest in the autumn.” That adage by Bertie Forbes before his death 62 years ago is still as true today as it was then. Fresh from a harsh summer of hot and dry...

Harrowsmith Community Improvement Plan Anne-Marie Young, Frontenac County manager of Economic Development, presented the details of the proposed Harrowsmith Village Community Improvement Plan, which came about after community consultations. The...

German graffiti legend, Loomit, will be visiting the Godfrey Sculpture Park from September 25 to October 2 to collaborate with Sculptor Stefan Duerst. Designwars.com says Loomit is the graffiti artist that gave graffiti its current meaning. Loomit...

Paul Davey and Harold Lake are experienced fishing guides who typically catch fish when they’re on duty. Last Saturday, they also saved a life. Friends for decades, the men started their day like any other: boats, supplies and customers ready for...

Brittani Lawson, a 21-year-old woman from Verona, and her service dog Anchor met me at Tim Hortons recently. Brittani has a medically diagnosed, non-visible disability and her doctors say that she needs a service dog to allow her to live an...

At the top of Fermoy Hill, one of the highest points on the Westport Road overlooking Wolfe Lake, sits the Fermoy Hall, where it has been since it was constructed over 150 years ago. For over a century it served as the hall and office for the...

Budget confusion but treasurer gets direction for an increase South Frontenac Treasurer Louise Fragnito initiated Council into the 2017 budget process with a report outlining the direction that staff would like to take in regard to the target...

The Verona Lions do many wonderful good deeds for the community, and with 69 vendors and a pay-what-you-can entry fee, their Garlic Festival on Sept. 3 was an excellent fundraiser for the many programs they support. What an extremely well organized...

Browen Weeks, Recreation Coordinator for the seniors’ programs at Southern Frontenac Community Services, recently came up with a somewhat unusual fundraiser for the Adult Day Services program. On August 30, he rocked in a rocking chair for 12...

Former Harrowsmith cheese factory site to be re-zoned There was no opposition to a proposal to re-zone the Sapputo property in Harrowsmith to permit commercial car sales and other urban uses. Planner Mills noted that much of the 4.4 hectare lot is...