SOUTH FRONTENAC

South Frontenac approves 2016 budget Council spent little time approving the 2016 budget document, which they have looked over on several previous occasions, including an all day session in mid-November. The township will spend over $28 million in...

Six years ago there was no food bank serving South Frontenac, but there were a number of programs available to residents in different communities. Different churches gave out food, the Loughborough Christmas and Emergency Relief Committee and the...

While we all understand that death is inevitable, we mostly keep that aspect of life at a distance until we are confronted with it. But along with death comes bereavement and the need for community support for those dying and their families. For...

Farmers gathered November 9 at Long Road Eco Farm near Harrowsmith for a year-end farm tour, with a cooking class, potluck lunch and open stage variety show. The event wrapped up the eastern Ontario CRAFT's (Collaborative Regional Alliance for...

The 22nd annual installment of the Roberta Struthers Craft and Bake sale attracted hundreds of shoppers to the Golden Links Hall in Harrowsmith on November 14. The event, which is sponsored by the local Odd Fellows and Rebekahs, is named in memory...

Developer Terry Grant has submitted a revised proposal for his Hartington subdivision, which scales the plan down from the original 47 lots to 13, all of which would be located within the hamlet of Hartington. Hartington resident Michelle Foxton...

Saturday, December 12 in the villages of Sydenham and Verona Christmas is just around the corner. This holiday, you can make a difference and help make this time of year special for all! On Sat. December 12, 10 am to 3 pm, OPP Auxiliary Constable...

For over 30 years now, singers from the choirs of Trinity United Church in Verona, St. Paul's United in Harrowsmith and St. Paul's Anglican Church in Sydenham, along with singers from the surrounding local communities have been joining together in...

Members of the congregation of St. Paul's United Church in Harrowsmith held their annual Country Crafts sale on November 14, with many of the proceeds going to the Verona Community Association's Christmas For Kids program. The program, with the help...

Fans of famed author, humorist and lecturer, Mark Twain, were treated to an evening of Twain courtesy of David Jacklin, who is the producing director of BarnDoor Productions in Perth. In his one-man show titled “Mark Twain's Patent Scrap Book”,...

As mentioned in previous South Frontenac council reports, there is a long-standing controversy about a small strip of sand beach on Canoe Lake beside the James Wilson Road. James Campbell who claims the beach is on his property, has applied to...

After an active two months of meetings, phone calls and community organizing, a group that has been dubbed Welcome Home Ministries, which is made up of parishioners from St. James and St. John's Anglican churches in Kingston and St. Paul's Anglican...

About 1,000 people attended a wake at Loughborough Public School on Friday evening, November 6 for Travis Babcock, a 12-year-old grade 7 student at the school who died after a car accident on November 1. The accident took place at the junction of...

The Simkins family, who were originally from Harrowsmith, are celebrating 150 plus years in the sewing machine business. The business's current owner, Eric Simkins, had a display of his machines, both modern and antique, at the Trinity Quilters’...

On November 6, Rick Walters, president of Lennox and Addington Mutual Insurance, was beaming at the official ribbon cutting celebration for the opening of the company's first ever satellite office, which is located in the Harrowsmith Plaza. L& A...

Twelve members from the Sydenham and Verona Lions clubs and three volunteers recently completed vision and hearing screening of approximately 200 senior kindergarten and Grade 1 students at Harrowsmith, Loughborough, and Prince Charles Public...

Long Closed Session Council convened at 5:00 for a closed session to deal with several matters concerning litigation, labour relations and property matters. Following this, they came into Council chambers at 7:00 to commence the public part of the...

Trevor McKinven, who hails from North Hatley, Quebec, admits that one of the reasons he has been putting on his one-man show titled “They Came From Away”, for the last four years is because he is “a bit crazy”. “You definitely have to be a...

For those looking for a real fright on Halloween night, Sydenham was one place to be. For the last five years, members of the McNeill family, along with the help of numerous relatives and friends, have been scaring the wits out of Halloween revelers...

Most of this brief November 03 meeting was concerned with ‘housekeeping matters.’ A by-law change states that Councillors McDougall, Revill and Sutherland’s terms on the newly revived Corporate Services Committee will expire at the end of...

Lennox and Addington Mutual Insurance was established in 1876 after a meeting of farmers that was held in the Village of Newburgh. The farmers were unable to obtain fire insurance from companies based in urban centres so they set up their own mutual...

They are going to be at it again next Saturday night. Inveterate rocker Tom Revell is bringing his own '60s/'70s band Bauder Road, and will share the stage with Dark Horse, Still Standing, Ten Cent Hat, The Fonzies and other friends in the dance...

Bethany Garner is a long time quilter and quilt collector with an impressive collection of heritage quilts from Frontenac County. At the Trinity Quilters Heritage Quilt show in Verona on October 17, she had on display 27 quilts from her personal...

2016 Capital Budget Public Works Manager Mark Segsworth presented his department’s capital budget for 2016. He and CAO Orr reminded Council that this was just a first step in the budget process: at this time, they were looking for any large items...

On October 15, students at Harrowsmith Public School had a chance to experience first hand what it means to engage in the democratic process as they participated in the school's first ever Student Vote program. Students in Ms. Thayer's and Ms....

Buck Tibbitt is a cabinet maker and contractor who lives on Buck Bay Road just south of Parham. Last Thursday afternoon (October 15th) he was working at a home near Parham about a 15 minute drive from his house. At about 5:15 PM that day a fierce...

Quilt lovers got more than their fair share of eye candy at the Trinity Quilters' Heritage Quilt show celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Frontenac County. On October 17 the Trinity United Church in Verona was lined wall to wall and pew to pew with...

B.J. Calver, who heads up the local and international missions program at the Harrowsmith Free Methodist Church, was thrilled with the turn out at the church's annual Fall Fair on October 17. The event attracted hundreds of shoppers and included...

Heritage Conservation Award Mayor Vandewal presented Barbara Stewart with a plaque from the Frontenac Heritage Foundation recognizing the transformation of the former Hartington stone schoolhouse into the South Frontenac Museum. Mrs Stewart is chair...

Widely known for his aviation art, 84-year-old Canadian artist Don Connolly demonstrates that he is an artist who has covered a wide range of styles and subject matter during his close to four-decade-long career as a professional painter. Connolly,...

In the absence of Mayor Vandewal, Deputy Mayor McDougall chaired the meeting. Desert Lake Causeway’s Culvert Bill Pedersen, retired owner of Desert Lake Campground and Larry Showler of Frontenac Outfitters, came as a delegation about the culvert...

It was dark day for humanity. But shining through the darkness of September 11, 2001 was a light that came from the kindness and hospitality of the people of Gander, Newfoundland. On the fateful day, that community embraced and absorbed over 6,500...

Close to 300 hockey players aged three to eighteen years of age are currently playing hockey with the Frontenac Minor Hockey Association on their home turf located at the Frontenac Community Arena in Piccadilly. New this year and for the first time...

The Trinity Quilters will be celebrating the county's 150th anniversary with a special heritage quilt show featuring over 100 quilts and other items that will be displayed in the sanctuary of Trinity United Church in Verona on Saturday Oct. 17. The...

Nine-year-old Leila Lawrence-Montag of Harrowsmith offers a bag of donated groceries to volunteers with the Southern Frontenac Community Services Food Bank who were collecting food and cash donations outside the Foodland in Sydenham on October 3....

Sydenham beer store's disappearing act concerns Council The Sydenham beer store has been closed for almost a month, replaced by a temporary beer store located in a trailer next to the store. No one on Council seems to know why the bricks and mortar...

This article is prepared by X.B. Shen of Long Road Ecological Farm and is a part of its “Farm Sum” series. www.facebook.com/farmsum. We invite friends over to our farm from time to time and usually we make a Chinese peasant-style meal with...

As the more leaves fall from the trees, the night of Halloween quickly approaches, and soon the dead will again be free to return to the earth for that creepy night of the year. For many this means inventive costumes, spooky decorations, buckets and...

No less than 20 steaming pots of chili were the main attraction for hungry guests who attended the second annual Sydenham Chili Fest fundraiser for St. Paul's Anglican Church on September 19. With names like Melt Your face Off, Walk the Dog, Fire in...

(absent: Councillors Robinson, Schjerning, Sleeth, and CAO Orr) By-Law enforcement: Neighbour’s Livestock Trevor Piat of Harrowsmith spoke of his neighbour’s increasing number (currently 6 or 7) of horses on a three-acre residential lot. The...

It was a lucky day for two young great horned owlets back in May 2015, when Verona area resident Bill Kendall was out for his regular walk on a trail located on an old farm property near his home. Bill, who is an amateur photographer, had been...

Ashley Barrie, employment consultant with St. Lawrence College Employment Services, was in Verona at the Free Methodist Church on September 10 offering satellite employment services as part of the organization’s first outreach initiative program...

Close to 40 participants attended a Frontenac County invasive species community seminar that took place at the Elbow Lake Environmental Education Centre (ELEEC) on August 29. The seminar, which was aimed at landowners and land managers, was...

Hartington Subdivision Proposal Council brought forward a deferred motion to forward the planning reports of June 24 and September 04 concerning this proposal, along with all related correspondence and the Township’s preliminary comments, to the...

Lovers and growers of the ever popular “Stinky Rose” (a.k.a. garlic) descended on the Verona Lions grounds for their annual garlic festival on Sept. 5, which this year included 55 vendors offering up everything garlic, from seeds, single and...

Garlic enthusiasts will be pleased to know that a brand new book titled “Ontario Garlic: The Story from Farm to Festival”, published by The History Press in July, 2015 is now available for those interested in how attitudes towards the stinky...

Revised Subdivision Proposal Questioned Speaking on behalf of a number of the residents of Hartington, Michelle Foxton noted that FOTENN Planning’s current proposal for a much smaller development situated within the hamlet of Hartington appeared...

A colonial reminder Mayor Vandewal opened the meeting by acknowledging that on September 9, Queen Elizabeth will become the longest-reigning Sovereign of Canada. Council has proclaimed Wednesday, Sept 9 to be a day of celebration in Her Majesty’s...

At a hastily organized second public meeting to discuss a proposed 13 megawatt solar power project in close proximity to Inverary, representatives from Canadian Solar Solutions faced angry local residents. Originally Canadian Solar had planned a...

For members of the Portland District and Area Heritage Society, August 15, 2015 is a day that will go down in history and one that marks a new era for history buffs interested in the history of the Township of South Frontenac. The day marked the...