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Wednesday, 08 January 2020 11:29

Happy New Year, we need your help

I hinted at this in my Christmas editorial. At the Frontenac News we are committed to continuing in the task we have carved out for ourselves over the past 48 years, to support the many small communities in Frontenac County, by covering local issues in a timely manner, keeping an eye on municipal and provincial politics as they effect our readers, and chronicling the joys and sorrows of life in a changing world. We do that work now using modern media platforms; through our web services and social media, but the bedrock of our service remains the physical paper that we send out to 12,500 households each week. No other platforms provide the opportunity for everyone in the community to read about what their friends, neighbours, local businesses and governments are doing.

That is why the municipalities and our advertisers continue to support us. They know that it is the best way to ensure that every resident in their area has access to important information.

But the cost of the blanket coverage that we provide is prohibitive. By our calculations, it costs $30 per year to put the newspaper you are reading in your hands each week. We are committed to keeping the paper and frontenacnews.ca/Frontenac-live.ca free but we are once again asking readers who can afford, and are so inclined, to pay for their own paper through a voluntary sponsorship.

Some can pay $30, some less, some more to cover for those who can’t. All donations are welcome. Again, this year we are offering a free classified ad (a $12 value) or an equivalent discount on a larger ad, to be used in 2020, as a thank you for a sponsorship of any amount.

We provide receipts to sponsors but since we are a for profit, private enterprise, the receipt cannot be used for a tax deduction. We thank you for considering this request.

Looking forward to 2020, there are reasons for optimism in this region. Our rural lifestyle, with the promise of better and better cell and internet services, is making moving here more and more attractive. While it is not always easy, the business climate is improving in our communities. New ventures are cropping up all the time. Building activity from South to North continues to increase year over year.

At the same time, we can no longer ignore the reality of climate change, both in terms of our collective lifestyle and its impact on the regulatory environment and the economy. It is no longer a problem to be solved at international conferences or through federal or provincial policy. It is something we need to look at in our communities and in our own homes, and our coverage must reflect that as well.

As you can see in this first edition of 2020, the question of how our municipalities are able to react to changing conditions will be a major concern this year, and we look forward to covering it. We are also hoping to introduce new features this year and an improved integrated web and print services directory, that will be unfolding over the next few months.

Welcome to the 2020’s.

Published in Editorials
Wednesday, 18 December 2019 12:36

Christmas Editorial

I guess when you do something for long enough it becomes something of a tradition. And so it is with these end of year messages to readers. I believe this is my 17th. They are written in part to thank our readers, volunteers, staff, and advertisers for all their support over the 50 editions that made up volume 19, and also to wish our readers a Happy Christmas and New Year’s season.

I also like to remind everyone that we take two weeks off over Christmas and New Year’s. I don’t think anyone notices that the paper is missing during Christmas week, but when it does not come out on the first week of January people do start asking me if we have closed up shop for good.

It is indeed a tougher slog for a print-based newspaper at the end of 2019 than it was in January of 2002 when I started working for my friends, David Brison and Jule-Koch Brison, and since they both died just before the final paper of the year, David in 2002 and Jule in 2016, I am thinking of them as I write this. Certainly, it has been and continues to be a struggle to get the paper out ever since Jule died on December 15, 2016, and as she was a devout Christian, her commitment to the Christmas edition each year always gave the paper an extra lift.

There are other challenges facing community newspapers these days of course. Our local advertising base has remained solid over the last five years. Local retailers and municipalities are aware that their customers and constituents appreciate a newspaper that is concerned about the joys, sorrows and occasional controversies of life in their own communities. But our national advertising support has dried up completely, including provincial and federal government advertising, and that has made things more difficult. Not only does this result in a financial hit for us, it also results in an information gap for the public. During the most recent federal election, there were no ads from Elections Canada in our paper, explaining the nuts and bolts of the vote, such as who to call if you don’t receive a voting card, how to find the polling stations, etc. I spend as much time online as anyone, and I did not see that information anywhere. Perhaps it was on social media, or on tv which I don’t watch, but I think there were others who never received that information this time around.

Interestingly enough, the federal government claims to be supportive of the newspaper industry. They have supported subscription-based newspapers through a postal rebate for many years, but not the postage costs for free newspapers such as the Frontenac News. This year they unveiled a support package for newspapers and much of the support went to the two large chains, Metroland and Post Media, companies that, in my view, have decimated local coverage in the papers that they have swallowed up over the last 20 years. The only stream of the support package, that was targeted at small market papers, offered subsidies for newspapers who were willing to expand into markets and cover municipal councils that are not being covered. It is about eliminating ‘news deserts’. There is no ‘oasis money’ for papers like ours that keep the news desert at bay by covering five councils in a rural region.

We remain dependent on our advertisers, our ability to develop web services that are useful for the business community, our recreation guides, visitor guide and phone and services directory, and, over the past couple of years, ongoing support from our readers. In the new year, we will make a pitch for that support once again, but for now I would like to thank those who have supported us financially over the past two years.

As the world changes, our role as a news source has to change as well. Our rural communities are attracting new investment as people keep building and renovating houses throughout this readership area, within commuting distance from Kingston and further out as well. At the same time, as climate change becomes a political and lifestyle reality, it is becoming harder to see how we can adjust our lifestyles accordingly. Out of economic necessity we live in a one adult, one vehicle world, which is not the way people live even in small and medium sized cities.

We also have political challenges as the limited capacity of our municipalities squares up against the growing needs of our aging communities. This is only underlined by a growing unease in the relationship between Frontenac County and the City of Kingston, where so many of our services are based.

In 2020 and beyond it will be our job, as a news service, to articulate some of these issues while adjusting our business model to remain financially viable.

But all that is for another day.

Published in Editorials

For this year’s annual Pie in the Sky Maberly Fair fundraiser. Fred Barrett wanted to give visitors a unique view of our Sun, with a Hydrogen Alpha B2200 telescope.

“It let’s you see fine details in black spots and flares,” he said.

The only problem was, the clouds weren’t in a mood to cooperate, thwarting his best attempts to zero in on the big fireball in the sky.

So, he decided to concede defeat.

However, as the Frontenac News columnist has demonstrated over the past two months, he’s quite prepared to talk about nothing, as it pertains to stellar concerns.

In particular, black holes and the origins of the universe.

“Maybe there wasn’t a Big Bang,” he said. “I’ve not yet shifted to the ‘no big bang’ school of thought but my mind is open.

“Perhaps there is just budding off of new universes.”

Or how about black holes, the ultimate nothings, and how they relate to the Big Bang.

“Science doesn’t have the math to describe an infinite singularity,” he said. “And math hates inifinity.”

When originally proposed, the Big Bang Theory was thought to be ridiculous, he said.

“Maybe it is. And then there is the theory of alternate universes, but I’m not sure how that would negate the Big Bang, or the gig expansion.”

Getting back to what was supposed to be the topic of the day, the Sun, Barrett said it’s probably his favourite cosmic object, because “it’s so dynamic, with so much going on.

“Except that there’s next to nothing going on right now. We’re still at a stellar minimum which should last about another five or six years when activity should increase.”

Barrett said he got hooked on astronomy in 1997 (“or was it 1996”) when he picked up an astronomy book for something to read while on a trip to visit his mom in Montreal.

“I’ve always been fascinated by astronomy,” he said. “The next thing you know, I had my first 4 ½“ reflector.”

He gradually evolved to solar watching but while the sun my be his favourite object out there, it’s “only barely.

“There are so, many beautiful deep space objects. Take the constellation Orion, for example.

“It has many nebulae and there are stars being born there right now.”

Published in Lanark County
Wednesday, 07 February 2018 13:08

Re: Reader-Supported News

Re: Reader-Supported News

Part of the fallout of the Trump victory in the US and the rise of populism globally has been articles, interviews, essays and books about the future of democracy and our individual freedoms. One such publication is a thin little book called "On Tyranny- Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" by Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University.

Lesson Number 2 is entitled "Defend Institutions". He says "We tend to assume that institutions will automatically maintain themselves against even the most direct attacks. This was the very mistake that some German Jews made about Hitler and the Nazis after they had formed a government....It took less than a year for the new Nazi order to consolidate. By the end of 1933, Germany had become a one-party state in which all major institutions had been humbled."

That is history writ large, but the lesson applies at all levels, including at the very local level, our communities, in which you and I can be active participants. In Frontenac County and the surrounding area, The Frontenac News is a rare gem of a democratic institution. It provides consistently balanced, nuanced, and factual reporting. Helping us to know and understand our neighbours, the Frontenac News also helps us individually and as a community to defend ourselves against injustice and loss of liberty. Astonishingly in our cynical and greedy society, the Frontenac News is actively committed to providing access to all by remaining a free publication DELIVERED to every resident. How ironic that this makes it ineligible for government support.

And yet, without government funding, perhaps it is even more able to provide us news and information free from interference and censorship.

Snyder says, "It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well....Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning. So choose an institution you care about - a court, a newspaper, a law, a labour union - and take its side."

I am choosing The Frontenac News, because a user-supported institution (and not just dollar support) is a truly independent and enduring one.

Paige Cousineau

Published in Letters
Wednesday, 31 January 2018 13:19

Reader supported news

When the North Frontenac News was established as a not-for-profit enterprise in 1971, its stated purpose was to knit the small isolated communities together north of Verona. There were other information sources about the world ‘out there’ but none that focused on local issues and celebrated the joys and quirks of people in tons such as Parham, Sharbot Lake, Godfrey, Mountain Grove and Cloyne.

Forty seven years later the world has changed. The Frontenac News, now a for-profit, independent community newspaper, is delivered free of charge to all households in South, Central, and North Frontenac, Addington Highlands and Western Lanark.

But our purpose remains. There are many ways, through radio, tv, and print, to find out what’s going on in the larger communities outside of Frontenac County, but no other way to find out what is going on in our own communities.

There are new media sources now, but as powerful as social media is, it does not provide information to everyone in the community. Our local and county councils collect $45 million each year from us as taxpayers, and only the Frontenac News reports on how decisions about how that money will be spent are made. When it comes time for municipal elections, we are the only ones who take the time to hold all candidates meetings, and interview all the candidates to prepare a primer for the benefit of our readers, both online and through the weekly newspaper.

When someone makes a difference in our communities, even when they try to make a difference, we let everyone know about it.

We are committed to delivering all of this information free of charge, and to disseminating it as widely as possible. That is why we use Canada Post to deliver the newspaper each week, because even though it is very expensive, it is the only way we can guarantee delivery to all of the back road locations where people have built their lives. That is also why we do not have a paywall on either of our two websites, Frontenacnews.ca (which we load with the stories from the paper and update throughout the week as well) and Frontenac-live.ca (where comprehensive event listings and a complete business directory are located).

We remain committed to providing information for free thanks to the revenue generated by our advertisers.

Yet, even as the federal government prepares to step in to support the newspaper industry across the country, the rules surrounding who is eligible penalise us for our commitment to all residents in our readership area. Free newspapers have never been eligible for government support.

In other words, if we made our readers pay us for the newspaper, we could apply for funding. Since we give it away, we can’t.

With costs rising, we have decided to introduce an element of reader support to help us grow and thrive. The idea of user supported content has taken hold on the web, and we are jumping in as well.

We are asking for support from our readers, only those who can afford it, to cover our costs and enable us to invest in further upgrades to our reporting and to our web service. It costs us $30 a year for each of the 12,500 households that receive the paper each week.

If a portion of our readers are able to kick back that $30, or pay $50 or $100 to help cover for those who cannot afford to pay anything, it would be a big help to us.

We have enlisted online help for this by registering with Patreon.com, which is a service that was set up for makers of cultural products based on small, monthly payments, or we can accept payment in all the usual ways at our office, including credit card, Interac and email payments, checques and even cash.

For your support, we are offering a thank you in the form of a free 20 word classified ad (value $12 with hst) for any contribution (as long its $12 or more)

Thank you,
Jeff Green, Publisher

To become a patron of the Frontenac News, click here.

Published in Editorials
Wednesday, 10 January 2018 12:36

Election Year

The last time we all went to the polls was for the Federal election way back in the fall of 2015, when the 10 year old Steven Harper led Conservative government was tossed out in favour of the Liberals under Justin Trudeau. This year the 14.5 year run of the Ontario Liberals, during which time Dalton McGuinty was elected 3 times and current Premier Kathleen Wynne one time, will be on the line on June 7th. Riding redistribution, which came into effect federally in that 2015 election, will be mirrored at Queen’s Park after this coming election. Lanark Frontenac Lennox and Addington Conservative MPP Randy Hillier will be contesting the new Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston riding against Amanda Pulker-Mok of the Liberals, Anita Payne of the Green Party, a still un-named NDP candidate, and perhaps other independent or small party candidates who may come out of the woodwork in the run up to the election.

Our readers in Addington Highlands will be part of the new provincial riding of Hastings, Lennox and Addington (HL&A). Former Conservative Federal Member of Parliament Daryl Kramp, who lost the Federal election in the HL&A riding to Mike Bossio in 2015, was chosen last August as the Conservative candidate in the new provincial riding, and has been campaigning ever since. The other parties have not selected candidates as of yet.

While the local election will not heat up until the writ period, which starts in early May, on a provincial level the contest has been under way for at least a year, perhaps longer.

The thinking as recently as 3 months ago was that the Liberals were headed to certain defeat to the Conservatives, but the polls have tightened since then. We will be watching the provincial election over the next few months, reporting as the candidates surface for the various parties, and trying to get a sense of how riding redistribution will affect the local race.

In the 2015 Federal election, The Lanark Frontenac Kingston riding went to Scott Reid, the long serving Conservative Party incumbent from the former Lanark Frontenac Lennox and Addington riding. While Reid’s margin of victory decreased from earlier elections, that could have been more a reflection of dipping Conservative Party fortunes nationally than the impact of riding redistribution. In Frontenac-Hastings, the riding swung from the Conservative to the Liberals, leading to a surprise victory for Mike Bossio over Daryl Kramp.

We will look at the candidates as they are announced and will provide coverage of the local election in May and early June, when we will publish profiles of the candidates and will hold all candidates meetings at two locations.

The municipal election will be the subject of our attention at the Frontenac News over the summer and into the early fall. There will certainly be a good number of current council members who will be running again, and a smaller number who will be stepping away from municipal politics at the end of the year. The first thing to watch for after May 1st, when the nomination period opens, is whether any current members of council decide to take a run at the incumbent mayors in Frontenac County. If any do it will open up the council vote and create a more competitive race overall. And if the previous election is any indication, running for council as an incumbent can be anything but a sure thing. In Central Frontenac the last time around, only two of the 7 incumbents who sought re-election kept their place. An incumbent lost in each ward, as did the sitting Mayor, Janet Gutowski. The other townships were not as volatile, but there were hard fought races in many wards, and in the mayoralty races. We will also be closely watching Addington Highlands. If Reeve Henry Hogg does indeed step down, the race for Reeve will be pretty wide open, and it will be interesting to see if any of the current members of council decide to step up to the plate.

We began our early coverage of the election this week by polling incumbent heads of council (reeves and mayors) as to their intentions. We will continue to report on the intentions of current members of council and others who are ready to declare their candidacy as they come forward over the winter and early spring. After May first we will report on nominations as they are submitted in the townships, and our coverage will swing into higher gear after nominations close on July 27th. In the run up to the election we are planning to hold all candidates meetings in each ward where our paper is delivered, as we have done in the past, and we will profile the candidates in September and early October. We will also look at the issues that will be contested in the election, from development pressures in South Frontenac, to the septic inspection issue in Central Frontenac, to the fallout from the rebuild of the township office and the onset of the One Small Town initiative in North Frontenac. The underlying issue of taxation and service levels in all townships is another concern will will address in our coverage.

Published in Editorials
Wednesday, 20 December 2017 14:40

2017, a year to be remembered — for me at least

It’s generally a good sign when you manage to last an entire year with any organization. This is particularly true in the news business.

Last year at this time, I was just preparing to give notice at The Frontenac Gazette. It wasn’t any specific incident, just that things weren’t the same.

Somehow, Jeff Green got wind of it and the next thing you know, we’re talking about who’s going to cover what.

So far, so good. I wasn’t really into the ‘retirement’ idea anyway. After all, I can’t afford a winter residence down south. I have thought about writing more books. But none of my novels went anywhere and I can’t really see anybody paying good money to read about my thoughts on why Stratocasters are so great. (Strats are great but my best buddy lent me his Les Paul for the winter and I could be convinced to play one . . .)

Anyways, where were we?

Ah, yes, the year that was.

It was a year like any other really. There were ups. There were downs. Most of it was in a tolerable zone somewhere in the middle.

It was Canada’s 150 birthday celecbration (sic) year. Lotta buttons out there, lotta buttons . . . and banners.

But a lotta stuff went on.

For one thing, Jim MacPherson talked a bunch of us into playing 150 Canadian Songs down at the beach on Wednesday nights. We’d been jamming regularly for a couple of years and Jim thought it would be a good thing to try.

We started with Neil Young’s Old Man and finished with The Tragically Hip’s Ahead By A Century . . . in a downpour.

We took the show on the road too, playing the opening of the K & P Trail and Covering Canada 150 Coffee House at GREC (both Canada 150 events). Two things I’ll remember about the Coffee House: it was the politest audience I’ve ever played for and Jim saying “10 people taking the stage who have three things in common — we love music, we have a strong feeling for this country, and, up until this week, we’ve enjoyed each other’s company.”

But while 150 logos were cropping up everywhere, there were a few other stories going on.

It was fun to cheer on astronaut candidate Andrew Smith as he went through the process (he got to the final 17 of 72).

It wasn’t as much fun dodging all the rhetoric being flung about as Central Frontenac debated the merits and pitfalls of inspecting everybody’s septic systems.

And in North Frontenac, a somewhat different story began to emerge.

The idea of creating an alternate form of municipal development isn’t new. Ideas come along all the time but rarely do the get to the point of having a mayor coming out and clearly championing the case.

But Mayor Ron Higgins was the one doing the presentation of One Small Town (or C & T, North Frontenac, the actual name of the project and/or who’s responsible for what seems a little muddy at times).

It started out as an intriguing concept. A development of self-contained houses were to be surrounded by collective industries complete with energy distribution and even a fish farm (they even claimed “lobsters” as a possibility).

But with question marks about how energy is to be provided without breaking the second law of thermodynamics, running a raffle without a licence and even if the the Earth is flat, don’t expect this plan to be written up in Municipal World any time soon.

And then, there was the end of The Gazette. I worked at The Frontenac Gazette for four different owners (or three if you prefer as Joe Cembal sold it to his son Darryl). So naturally I was sad when it was traded and shut down. Let’s leave it at that.

Oh, and The Good Brothers played down at the beach in Sharbot Lake. That was pretty cool.

Published in Editorials
Wednesday, 29 November 2017 12:10

Mixed emotions over the demise of an old foe

On Monday afternoon, I heard that the Frontenac Gazette/Kingston Heritage had shut down. Soon after, I found out that the entire newspaper landscape in Ontario has been dealt a blow. The two major players in the market had agreed to cease competing with each other in a bid to make both companies profitable, or at least to cut some losses.

I have mixed feelings about losing the Gazette.

On one positive side we have been battling it out with the Gazette for ads and stories for as long as I have been working at the News, both as an employee and an owner, so it’s kind of nice not to have to worry about what they are getting up to. And in business terms we are going to jump on the opportunity to consolidate our standing in the communities we serve with readers and advertisers.

On the negative side I have enjoyed the camaraderie from covering events and meetings with Gazette reporters over the years, and will miss that. Every time their reporters got to a story that we missed, it was motivation for us to do better. The community has been well served by competition and differing takes on local issues.

There have been a number of good, solid reporters at the Gazette, and losing those voices will not help us all as we strive to build and maintain our communities.

I have also been thinking a bit about the years when there was a real battle for survival between us, before the Gazette became swallowed up and eventually spit out by the Ontario corporate news establishment.

When Northern Frontenac Community Services (which is now Rural Frontenac Community Services) sold the Frontenac News to David Brison in June of 2001, there was another bidder.

It was the Cembal family, publishers of the South Frontenac Gazette.

As soon as the Cembals found out the News was not being sold to to them, they dropped the South from the Frontenac Gazette masthead and expanded their circulation to Central Frontenac. A newspaper war in Frontenac County carried on for several years. In 2002, the Frontenac News expanded our distribution, adding Harrowsmith and Sydenham. We started covering South Frontenac Council each week, with Wilma Kenny coming on as a reporter. We also hired one of the Gazette’s ad salesmen that year, which made the competition pretty heated. The Gazette responded by expanding into North Frontenac for a time.

When the Heritage/Gazette was purchased by Performance Printing/EMC of Smiths Falls inn 2009, all of that changed, and when Metroland then bought Performance Printing in 2011, the competition basically fizzled.

For the last few years, the battleground has been in the City of Kingston between the Kingston Heritage and Kingston This Week. That battle was settled on Monday. Post Media, owners of the Whig Standard and Kingston This Week, own Kingston.

All of this represents an opportunity, a sense of obligation for us at the Frontenac News, and we are already taking measures in response to the vacuum that has been created. We are also very aware, that we are not immune to the pressures that are at play in the larger media market. We face the same crunch as the larger papers, and face the same struggles that all print publications face as revenue is harder and harder to come by. We will be addressing that issue with our readers in the coming weeks as we renew out commitment to provide a free paper via Canada Post to our readers and to make it relevant. All of our content is locally based and is devoted to local issues and we cover township and politics. Our mandate, and this goes back to the founding of the paper in 1971, is to be a vehicle that knits the various communities we serve together into one inter-connected region.

Our region is much larger now than it was back then, and this week it is getting larger yet.

We are distributing the paper via Canada Post to Inverary/Sunbury, Battersea, and Perth Road, not just this week but every week going forward. We are seeking volunteer community reporters from those communities to come forward. Anyone who is interested is invited to contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Our goal is, as always, to be a source of information and entertainment, to let people know about the interesting things their neighbours are getting up to, and to foster community engagement.

Oh, and we are in it for the long haul.

Published in Editorials

A raffle for a lot in the One Small Town community proposed for North Frontenac Township has been cancelled after it was discovered that no licence had been issued.

“After checking into it, we realised we didn’t have a licence and wouldn’t have time to get one,” said Duncan Spence, national coordinator for Ubuntu Canada acting as spokesperson for C & T (Contribute & Thrive) North Frontenac, the cooperative being formed to facilitate the One Small Town project. “We notified everybody who had bought tickets and asked if they wanted a full refund or to make a contribution.

“We’re being very transparent here and not hiding anything.”

The raffle had been promoted on the Talking Trees website and its Facebook Page.

On Nov. 6, The Frontenac News become concerned about the legality of raffling off a lot that did not yet exist and contacted the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) asking about the legalities involved.

Ray Kahnert, senior advisor, Communications and Corporate Affairs Divison of the AGCO sent the following response on the morning of Nov. 7: “The framework for charitable gaming flows from the Criminal Code (Canada), which establishes the need for charitable or religious organizations to meet eligibility criteria in order to obtain a lottery licence. The framework also requires that the proposed uses of lottery proceeds be reviewed and determined to be eligible before a lottery licence is issued.

“The Talking Trees organization has not received a licence from the AGCO. We also checked with the local municipality and are advised that they have not issued a licence for this group to conduct a raffle or lottery. It is possible that the organization may be eligible. It would need to submit a lottery licence application and an eligibility assessment would need to be conducted by the appropriate licence authority, i.e. either the municipality or the AGCO.”

On the evening of Nov. 7, The Frontenac News contacted North Frontenac Mayor Ron Higgins who said he couldn’t answer questions on the matter because Talking Trees is “a separate entity” and referred us to Spence.

By Nov. 9, the raffle graphic had been removed from the groups’ website and Facebook Page.

Published in NORTH FRONTENAC
Wednesday, 07 June 2017 13:32

Special edition for Canada Day

The Frontenac News publishes a Canada Day edition each year to help publicise all the events that take place on and around Canada Day in the various communities we serve in our paper and online versions. It is our way to kick off the summer season. The summer of ‘17 is shaping up to be extra busy since it is the summer of Canada 150 and in our June 29th edition, as well as on Frontenac-Live.ca we are featuring a comprehensive guide of events on July 1st and throughout the summer season.

We are reaching out to groups, organisations and businesses who are planning events this summer so they can be included in this edition through our normal means, but it is hard to get in touch with everyone. So if you are part of an event and want to tell the world all about it, email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with all the details, even an image if you have one.

We have special ad rates for that edition as well for extra promotion.

If you want to know where and when there is band playing, a run happening, or fireworks firing this summer, look for the June 29 issues in your mailbox, store shelf or favourite digital platform.

Published in General Interest
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