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Aug 05, 2015 – Jul 30, 2015
Ontario Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Jeff Leal, was in Sharbot Lake briefly on a hot Tuesday morning to announce a new round of infrastructure funding. Using the backdrop of a project that received 90% of its funding from the first round of the Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund (OCIF) - namely the removal of an aging bridge on Road 38 over the Trans-Canada Trail - Leal announced that $50 million will be made available for projects in so-called rural communities in 2016. For the purposes of OCIF, municipalities with populations under 100,000 are defined as rural. Municipalities have until September 11 to file an expression of interest for 2016 funding. Unlike other infrastructure programs, which tend to be funded as a three-way partnership (1/3 provincial, 1/3 federal, and 1/3 municipal) OCIF funding is 90% provincial and 10% municipal. Central Frontenac Mayor Frances Smith thanked the province for providing the funding for “an improvement to Road 38, which as you can see is a busy road that is used by many of our permanent residents to access work, and by seasonal residents in North and Central Frontenac to get to their cottages.” Minister Leal, who spent 18 years on Peterborough town council before being elected as an MPP in 2003, said that when roads were downloaded by the Harris government in 1999, Eastern Ontario was the hardest hit region of the province, and the McGuinty and now Wynne governments have been attempting to address the resulting infrastructure gap for the last 12 years. Road 38 was one of the roads that was downloaded by the Harris government. Central Frontenac received a matching grant to resurface it in 2006, and is still paying off its own share of those costs. Leal did not indicate on Tuesday that the Wynne government is considering taking back responsibility for any of the roads that were downloaded under Mike Harris. Instead, he talked about partnerships and the OCIF program. The section of Road 38 that runs through South Frontenac, which was resurfaced by the Ministry of Transportation before the road was downloaded in 1999, has been earmarked for re-surfacing by South Frontenac staff, but the costs are too great for the township to cover on its own.

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winners of the 11th annual CGF with prizes in hand, l-r: CGF founder and organizer Del Vezeau, Roger Schmidt (of Stonebridge Guitars), Blake Goodwin (1st place), Adam Crossman (2nd place), Ace Ting (3rd place) and Canadian guitar guru and festival emcee Don Ross

11th annual Canadian Guitar Festival

Howe Island farmer Ayla Fenton

Farming and activism takes local farmer across the world

Artist/printer Larry Thompson at the Bon Echo Art Exhibition and Show

New artist debuts at Bon Echo Art Show

Blue Skies Music Festival

Letter: Poor Cousins at County?

Letter: Wet mail once again

Rachel Hosseini with staff members Alana Botting and Lindsay Colliss and four regular customers at the Sharbot Lake Subway's first year anniversary celebrations on July 23

Subway franchise celebrates 1st anniversary

Rachel Hosseini, the owner and operator of Sharbot Lake's Subway franchise, marked the business's first year...

Susan Chan, a pollination expert spoke about bees as pollinators at the SLPOA's AGM in Sharbot Lake

The buzz about bees

At the Sharbot Lake Property Association’s annual general meeting, which took place on July 18 at St. Jame...

The Comedy of Errors

Letter: Re: Conservationists of Frontenac Addington

Letter: Re: Police Practices

Re: Police Practices David Whalen demonstrates in his letter (Police practices, Jul 8/15) the reality ...

Letter: SLPOA Needs Support

July 18 was a fine day.

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