Vaccine Clinic
I would like to congratulate Mayor Francis Smith and staff of Sharbot Lake Family Health Team, Frontenac Paramedics, Central Frontenac Fire Department and to anyone else I may have missed, for organizing such a well run vaccine clinic on March 15, at the Sharbot Lake Fire Hall. I thank everyone… READ MORE
Re: Climate Change – March 11, 2021
Never have I been moved to write a response to a letter to the editor until reading one about climate change. Let's start with birds, birds, birds – hypothetical questions have best use in planning for and adopting solutions. According to the Audubon society 1 billion birds die each year… READ MORE
Compelled to Question
I deeply value our Frontenac News community paper. I also appreciate the opportunity to speak out frankly on important issues. I am bewildered at the overwhelming eagerness to receive the COVID shot, considering it is an experimental shot that even health officials are cautioning does not provide immunity nor prevent… READ MORE
Covid Nightmare? Not At All!
I want to give a huge thank you to the team at the Sharbot Lake vaccine centre! And also to the doctor's and staff from the Sharbot Lake Medical Centre. I received my covid vaccine earlier this week. The team were organized, professional, friendly and so helpful! I was in… READ MORE
Comic Relief?
In the editorial “60 is the new 80 Where Vaccine is Concerned” I found serious information presented in a humourous way. Is there a certain giddiness about the fact that our area is now receiving vaccines? It’s as if to say, “They (the vaccines) are here now . . .… READ MORE
MOM Restaurant
The closing of MOM Restaurant in Verona is the sad end of an era of support and service to our community. MOM was a gathering place for friends and families; a place for celebrations and support; a place to gather after church; a place for travellers to enjoy great food… READ MORE
Climate Change
Perhaps the Frontenac News feels obliged to present “both sides” of the issue of human-induced climate change, but why do so by publishing a letter like the one from Edward Kennedy in your issue of March 11? Mr. Kennedy complains of “misrepresentation” and then presents us with exaggerated statistics, from… READ MORE
Climate Change
Perhaps the author of the letter headed 'Climate Change' in last week's paper might be kind enough to let us all know the identity of the unnamed "expert", whom he cites as the source for the torrent of questionable and unattributed statistics which form the basis of his climate change… READ MORE
Prison Farm
If someone with experience and knowledge about goat farming is raising concerns about the proposal to invest in a large scale goat dairy operation to be run by inmates at Joyceville Penitentiary by Correctional Services Canada (CSC), shouldn't they be listening? Dick Boogerd has 12 years experience running a 500… READ MORE
Climate Change
Having read another report of activism relative to climate change, on the back page of the March 4, 2021 Frontenac News, I wondered how a "Green New Deal" could ever have spread its misrepresentations from the USA to here. Perhaps Isi Ferguson and even Greta would be interested to know they… READ MORE
Green Concrete
Cameron Monroe's critique of my article on "green concrete" is valuable. Mr. Monroe refined and improved several details of the industrial chemistry of concrete. He also illustrated how lucky we are here in eastern Ontario to have so many well-informed folks among us. Because we are able to discuss vital… READ MORE
Finding hidden gems during COVID
During some organizing of old files the other day, I came across a tattered notebook in which my father had spent hundreds of hours writing, in a very artistic hand, his thoughts on the economy, social justice and other matters he felt strongly about. I have no personal recollection of… READ MORE
Henderson
Henderson a Hamlet or VillageFor the last 80 plus yearsHas now got it’s Death SentenceFrom our voted in Peers It is where I went to SchoolAnd made some new friendsSome have moved awayAnd some have decided to stay Things have changed over timeThere was a Church School and… READ MORE
Municipal Recyling
I’ve worked in municipal waste management & diversion for a decade and write to respond to your article on the ‘dirty little secret about recycling.’ (10 Feb. 2021.) Dr. Myra Hird is so correct that addressing climate change requires waste reduction and re-use, not just recycling. Municipalities work hard within… READ MORE
CF Property Taxes
It bears repeating that the difference between the taxes in the Frontenac's is startling and concerning. Central Frontenac is 56% higher when compared to South Frontenac and 40% higher when compared to North Frontenac! It has been suggested that the Frontenac's should have one governing body. Eliminate County government and… READ MORE
Green Concrete
I am responding to an article written in your Feb 18th, from Gray Merriam on the topic of Concrete being Green. In my 40th year working in Concrete Technology, I find this abbreviated article misdirecting, and vague. Concrete produced with Portland Cement is the most versatile, durable, and sustainable building material… READ MORE