SOUTH FRONTENAC

Photo: The Frontenac Women's Chorus at the Verona FMC On April 30 at the Verona Free Methodist Church, music lovers were treated to an evening of song by the Frontenac Women's Chorus, celebrating the arrival of spring. The concert, titled Garden...

Photo: Lynn Miles at Wintergreen StudiosMusic lovers looking for some inspiration this Easter weekend were not let down as Lynn Miles took to Wintergreen Studios' stage for an intimate night of song. The show was the third in Wintergreen’s 2011...

Photo: Steve Lloyd presents his guitar to 8 year old Ethan BrownOver 200 family members, friends and supporters gathered at the Verona Lions hall to offer their support to the children of Roseanne and Greg Brown. Greg, the father of Ethan, Will and...

by Faye Prettie (Grade 9, Sydenham High School) Photo by Jack Prettie On Tuesday, May 3, a barn was engulfed in flames in Bellrock, west of Verona. It was spotted around three o'clock by students on the high school bus coming home from school. It...

Photo: Jack Fenlong (Boat No.1) of SLCC competes in the 2010 Eastern Ontario Divisional (EOD) Championships at the Rideau Canoe Club (Mooney’s Bay) in Ottawa Summer fun and fitness starts here! The Sydenham Lake Canoe Club will be hosting two...

South Frontenac budget down to the short strokes. The first incarnation of the 2011 South Frontenac budget called for an increase of over 25% that local ratepayers were going to have to come up with. However, a decrease of $1.4 million in the roads...

This summer Main Street, in Verona, will once again showcase the gardening skills of dozens of volunteer gardeners in the Second Annual “Adopt-a-Barrel” flower growing competition. The Verona Community Association (VCA) has provided over 36...

John McEwen, a long-time Liberal Party supporter, said that he was harassed as he was putting up a Dave Remington sign in Harrowsmith last week. “At the beginning of the campaign I put a small sign up on Road 38 at the bottom of the village and...

Photo: Back: J. Leslie, E. Summers, Coach – S. Groenewegen, K. Redden-Groenewegen, L. Stone, C. Merritt, S. McCallum, Coach – D. Stone, E. Kendrick, K. Gill; front: J. Compton, M. Greenslade, H. Barnett, H. Howe, J. Turner-Davy (Goaltender);...

Photo: Artist John Redmond Ottawa artist John Redmond's solo show at Sydenham's Mill Street cafe is as visually pleasing as it is historically interesting. His acrylic works, which can be classified as abstract expressionist, each contain a...

Photo: Sam McKay, Siobhan Weatherby, Beth Lyons, Nicola Edward and Chris Henderson Having a buddy in high school can often make for cherished life-long memories and it is for that reason that Chris Henderson, an educational assistant at Sydenham...

Motocross dust and noise a neighbourhood concern Around 30 people attended a public meeting about a proposed zone change on the Day farm, which is located on Harrowsmith Road, just east of Harrowsmith. For many years, this farm has been the site of...

Photo: Andrew Fazackerley and Edward Goodfellow in Chicago, courtesy of Krista Fazackerley It was a story book ending for the Strokes fore Hopes duo Edward Goodfellow and Andrew Fazackerley, who took their final bows on stage at the Hyatt...

Council likes trailhead centre idea. Will the public? By Jeff Green Landscape architect and designer, Scott Wentworth, presented the concept drawings for a trailhead centre at the junction of the Cataraqui and K&P Trails in Harrowsmith to South...

Southern Frontenac Community Services (SFCS) have secured a deal for a lease-to-purchase agreement to move their seniors’ programming and administrative offices to the former Grace United Church in Sydenham. This will create the first permanent...

Steve Lloyd has had a special guitar for several years. But he won't have it for much longer. Steve will be giving away the guitar, which has been signed by a unique mixture of country and hockey legends, as part of a fundraising event at the end of...

A local animal protection group belonging to S.T.O.P. (Stop Turtle Oppression Program) has requested that applications be accepted for several openings for the position of Turtle Crossing Guard in South Frontenac Township. This group, being...

Budget down to 4,98%, but at what cost? On March 22, following Council’s direc-tion to cut back on Public Works spending, Public Works Manager Mark Segsworth presented a revised budget which reduced road and bridge construction by $1.3 M, and...

Photo: The Sheldrick family and Holly York with Linda Lothian (fourth from left), with Linda's grandson Donovan Linda Lothian and her family got a boost from friends, family and the Sydenham community who held a fund raising dance and benefit in...

Photo: Dick Miller in The Maircroft Enigma Verona Lions Hall was the scene of a crime on March 26 when Partners in Crime of Inverary presented “The Maircroft Enigma” by Robert Lawton as a fundraiser for the Verona Lions. This was the first time...

Photo:  (l-r) Hilda Hodgson. Liz Bruce, Don Wolsey, Erma Bracken, Elaine Lazier, Ardith Wolsey and Jeanette Pixley They are a fundraising tradition that has been going on at St. Paul's United Church in Harrowsmith for more than 25 years and for...

Photo:  Program coordinator Lorraine Creighton with clients Anne Haddrall, Glen Ritchie and staff member Wendy Fairbairn at Rural VISIONS Since March 2010 seniors in South Frontenac and the surrounding area have been taking advantage of the...

Recreation bites South Frontenac Council South Frontenac Council ploughed through a heavy agenda at their only formal council meeting this month. Then they put the brakes on public works spending in anticipation of tackling the entire public works...

Photo: SLHS students were given the opportunity to safely demonstrate proper techniques for rappelling trees. On March 4, students in the Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) – Forestry program at Sharbot Lake High School experienced this old adage...

Photo: Kate Hamilton, SFCSC's new family coordinator Kate Hamilton recently took over the position of family services coordinator at Southern Frontenac Community Services Corporation (SFCSC) at the Rural VISIONS Centre in Sydenham at the end of...

26% tax increase in South Frontenac draft budget South Frontenac Chief Administrative Officer Wayne Orr tried to ease members of council into his preliminary budget presentation at a meeting of the Committee of the Whole on Tuesday night, March 8....

“What I like most about Verona is that is it mainly located on Road 38, and how narrow the street is,” said Mike Keene (photo left) of Fo-Tenn Consulting at a kick-off meeting for the Verona Community Improvement Plan (CIP) that was held at the...

The village of Harrowsmith sees a lot of traffic every day. A steady stream of vehicles heads south to Kingston in the morning, and north in the afternoon. Vehicles head west on the Wilton Road to L&A County, Belleville, and Toronto, and east on the...

Water Treatment Plant Update CAO Orr reported that the water treatment plant upgrade was on schedule to be completed this spring. A brochure is to be mailed to all Sydenham home and business owners, explaining the change from chlorination to...

South Frontenac’s Waste Recycling Strategy Last September, South Frontenac Township began a fully integrated waste management program, with the primary goal of providing a consistent level of service throughout the township. This presently...

Photo: John Hall and Annabelle Twiddy and the new Steinway grand at Trinity United church in Verona It arrived three weeks ago and no one seemed more excited than Annabelle Twiddy, musical director at the Trinity United Church in Verona and St....

Photo: Mr. Schneider's grade 2/3 class at PCPS Students at Prince Charles PS in Verona had a chance to win a cake and eat it too as they and their families got creative in the kitchen, baking cakes for the school’s annual Valentine’s Day cake...

Photo: Kim Ondaatje and her “Jet” quilt It is no wonder that the “Jet” quilt designed by renowned Canadian artist Kim Ondaatje is the first quilt you see as you enter the show “Collecting Stories: The Heritage Quilt Collection”. The...

Photo: Doug Lovegrove's computer genealogy seminar in Hartington On February 9, those looking for help in unearthing their family trees got the ins and outs at a seminar called “Computer Genealogy” presented by Verona resident Doug Lovegrove....

Photo: Harold Dalmas (bottom right) presented certificates of appreciation to group leaders and volunteers of the 1st Scouts Canada- South Frontenac Group On Feb. 7, over 100 diners gathered at the Free Methodist Church in Harrowsmith for the 1st...

Cataraqui Regional conservation Authority General Manager Steve Knechtel spoke to Council about the Cataraqui Region Conservaion Authorities’ (CRCA) programs and budgets. Forty percent of the agency’s an-nual budget is derived from an annual...

Photo: Donor Melanie Fyfe with Lions members Ed Warren, Bill Pyle, Ron Hollywood and Dave and Dawn Hansen Sharbot Lake held its first Blood Donor Clinic of the new year at St. James Major on Feb. 3 and regular donors were once again pleased to be...

Photo: members of the Point Improvement Committee l-r, Cheryl Irwin, Vicky Veldman, Norm Irwin, Mark Richards, Leslie Myles, Mark Segsworth and Mike Howe, (missing is Joanne Brown) Members of the Point Improvement Committee, a sub-committee of the...

South Frontenac Council seemed receptive to a proposal for a new 2,600 square foot 10-unit commercial storage facility on the two-acre site of the car wash near Hartington that is owned by Scott Asselstine.   However, several councilors expressed...

Photo: Nancy Lansdell, John McDougall and Louise Day In an effort to raise awareness and funds for the Verona and area Find-a-Doc Campaign, the committee of the same name has published a community cookbook. Aptly named “Our Community Cookbook”,...

Back to HomeFeature Article - February 3, 2011 A “Blossoming” businessby Julie Druker Photo: Pam Morey of Blossoms Pam Morey of Harrowsmith stumbled across the ad on Kijiji and the rest, as they say, is history - business history. A wife and...

Photo: Authors Merilyn Simonds andWayne Grady Sunday afternoon, Mill Street Cafe in Sydenham was filled with folks who had come out to show their support for the new Sydenham Branch Library, and to meet a pair of local authors. Pat Dawson provided...

by Wilma Kenny and Jeff Green Velo-Quebec sets its sights on Sydenham Quebec has been promoting cycling in urban and rural Quebec for 40 years, and since 1994 Velo-Quebec Voyages has been organizing bicycle tours in Quebec, the US northeast and...

Photo: author, activist and farmer Aric McBay The National Farmer Union Local 316 has made headlines this year many times over. First, for spearheading the protests and blockades to fight against the closure of Canadian prison farms, centered around...

Photo right: Newly appointed members of South Frontenac Council Berm to building accepted, in principle A proposal by Scott Asselstine, who runs a car wash and solar installation on Road 38 just south of Hartington, to change the terms of a site...

Photo Left: Ms Mayhew's grade 3 class at Harrowsmith PS with their “Tweet Tree”. For the past four years students at Harrowsmith Public School have been participating in their annual Festival of Trees event, a holiday fundraiser aimed at...

Photo: (l-r) Auxiliary Constable Sylvain Belisle, Auxiliary Constable Brent Reynolds, and Auxiliary Staff Sergeant Bill Anderson in Verona Auxiliary staff from the OPP were out in full force in Sydenham and Verona on December 4 in support of two...

Photo: Professor of marketing Kathy Patterson On December 6 business owners who attend or are considering attending trade shows as a means of marketing their products and services gathered at the Sydenham Town hall to hear first-hand tips from a...

 Close vote for County Rep By Jeff Green The new South Frontenac Council got off to a very civilized, almost formal start on Tuesday night, with most members of council decked out in suit and tie to take the oath of office. To save time, Township...

Photo: New Farm Project panelists l-r: Wendy Luella Perkins, Paul Bowman, Bob Lovelace, and Tibrata Gillies Over 120 foodies, farmers and others interested in local farming and food production gathered at the Golden Links hall in Harrowsmith on Nov...